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Nature & Animals

  1. Sri Lanka has the highest number of snakebite deaths in the world?
  2. A puma has about 75% killing efficiency?
  3. Woodpeckers have the longest tongues among birds?
  4. A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell?
  5. A spider has transparent blood?
  6. A giraffe can walk longer than a camel without water?
  7. There are about 2000 species of mosquitoes?
  8. The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly?
  9. About 10 out of a 100 parrots learn to talk?
  10. Of all the water in the world, only 2% is fresh water?
  11. The only native mammal in Puerto Rico is the bat?
  12. The Grand Canyon is over a mile deep?
  13. 2 rats could multiply to over 1 million descendents in less than 2 years?
  14. A grizzly eats about 35 pounds of food each day?
  15. Elephants are the only mammals to have four knees?
  16. Salmon die in the river they were born in?
  17. There are no wild snakes in Hawaii?
  18. There are about 50 species of fish that can fly or glide?
  19. There are over 25000 different species of fish in the world?
  20. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest place on earth?
  21. The Philippine eagle is the second largest eagle in the world?
  22. Some hamsters only blink one eye at a time?
  23. Almonds are a member of the peach family?
  24. Bulls can run faster uphill than they can downhill?
  25. Flying fish do not actually fly, instead they glide over the water?
  26. The snow leopard can leapt 30 feet from standstill?
  27. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Canada was -63 degrees Celsius in 1947, Snag River Yukon?
  28. The Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench is the deepest place in the world. The depth is 35838 feet deep or 10923 m deep?
  29. The Great Salt Lake is after the Dead Sea the second saltiest water-body in the world?
  30. The Amazon River is about 4300 miles long?
  31. The fastest land animal in the world is the cheetah with a speed up to 60 mph?
  32. A mother hen turns over her egg about 50 times each day?
  33. The average housefly lives for about one month?
  34. The blue rings of the blue-ringed octopus are visible only when it's about to attack?
  35. Rattlesnakes do not always rattle before they strike?
  36. Queen termites are the longest living insects. They can live for 50 years?
  37. The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica?
  38. The fastest swimmer of all fish is the swordtail?
  39. The largest pearl ever found in an oyster was 620 carats?
  40. The Amazon River is home to two types of river dolphins?
  41. An egg contain all vitamin except for the vitamin c?
  42. Every year the Amazon River flood an area the size of England?
  43. An egg is a single cell?
  44. Mt. Cotopaxi in Ecuador is home to the only glacier located on the equator?
  45. Tapeworms can grow to about 80 feet long?
  46. Cockroaches doesnt eat cucumbers?
  47. Because there is no atmosphere on the moon the sky would look black to a person watching it?
  48. Goliath frog is the largest frog in the world?
  49. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit?
  50. Duck eggs are the biggest eggs in the world?
  51. Albatrosses can sleep while they are flighing?
  52. An owl can't move its eyes from side to side?
  53. A hen must eat about 4 pounds to produce 12 eggs?
  54. Lightning strikes about 6000 times per minute on our planet?
  55. There are about 15000 varieties of rice?
  56. Rabbits like to eat licorice?
  57. About 88% of milk is water?
  58. Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world?
  59. At the north pole the sun is under the horizon for 186 days each year?
  60. Waves can go around corners?
  61. The first known dinosaur skeleton was found in New Jersey in 1858?
  62. The tropical stick insect is the longest insect in the world?
  63. The biggest living thing in the world is a fungus?
  64. The Great Barrier Reef is home to about 400 species of different corals?
  65. It takes 15 facial muscles to laugh?
  66. An apple is covered with a thin layer of wax?
  67. A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a coffee bean?
  68. Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles?
  69. The coyote can run up to a speed of 40 mph?
  70. The panda's diet consists of about 95% bamboo?
  71. There are almost 200 species of monkeys?
  72. Some butterflies have ears on their wings?
  73. All monkeys have tails?
  74. Polar bear fur is not white, it only appears white to us?
  75. A grizzly bear can run up to about forty miles per hour?
  76. A grizzly bear give birth while in their winter sleep?
  77. Acid rain start as regular rain. It becomes acid when it falls through clouds of pollution?
  78. Dolphins can swim at a speed up to 37 miles per hour?
  79. Cobras are able to kill immediately after they are born?
  80. Flamingos are able to bend their knees backward?
  81. Elephant seals can dive to a depth of about 5000ft?
  82. A camel can drink over 25 gallons of water at a time?
  83. A kangaroo can't walk backwards?
  84. Dolphins eat about one-third of their body weight each day?
  85. Dolphins sleep with one eye open?
  86. Aspen Trees are the largest living organism in the world?
  87. A lizard's tail will grow back if cut off?
  88. The gecko's eyes are open all the time?
  89. Like a fingerprint every person has a unique tongueprint?
  90. Finland is home to one the cleanest water in the world?
  91. Finland has about 190000 lakes?
  92. Finland has the largest number of islands in the world?
  93. It has been said that it's impossible for humans to lick their own elbow. This is not true, some people can do it and I have seen it myself?
  94. Gold will never erode?
  95. Scorpions glow under UV-light?
  96. Lions sleeps about 19 - 20 hours a Day?
  97. When water freezes it will expand by 9%?
  98. A gray fox can climb trees?
  99. The famous tulips of Holland originated in Turkey?
  100. At an average speed of 15 feet a day the sloth is the slowest animal on earth?
  101. At a speed of about 150 miles per hour the Peregrine Falcon is the fastest animal on earth?
  102. An avalanche can make snow travel up to the speed of 100 miles per hour?
  103. Reindeers can jump about 8 - 10 feet into the air?
  104. Snow is a good insulator and can keep things warm?
  105. There are no tigers in the world with the same stripes?
  106. a Wild turkey can run about 25 miles an hour?
  107. Mosquitos have 47 teeth?
  108. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight?
  109. Frogs drink and breathe through their skin?
  110. A group of tigers is called a streak?
  111. Seals sleep only about one and a half minutes each time?
  112. Nobody knows what happens to the seahorse during winter. They are only seen during summertime?
  113. Tsunami waves can travel up to 400 miles per hour, faster than a commercial jet?
  114. Sometimes beavers die because of trees that falls?
  115. If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun?
  116. The total weight of all the worlds ants is more than the total weight of all the people?
  117. We loose about 75 hair from our head each day?
  118. A mole will die if it doesn't get food within 12 hours?
  119. Men and Women fart about 14 times each day?
  120. When you sneeze your heart stops for a short while?
  121. 10 out of a 100 parrots learn to talk?
  122. There are some giant land turtles that are able to bellow?
  123. Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning?
  124. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't?
  125. We shrink about one centimeter every day?
  126. About 50% of the world's tropical forests have gone lost?
  127. On average, about 35-40 volcanoes erupt each year?
  128. A tree in metropolitan area will survive about eight years?
  129. Mosquito repellents don't repel at all instead it will hide you?
  130. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death?
  131. The largest bat has almost a 6 foot wing span?
  132. The only animal, apart from a human, that can get a sunburn is a pig?
  133. An olive tree can live up to 1500 years?
  134. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave?
  135. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out?
  136. Dolphins sleep with one eye open?
  137. Ants don't sleep at all?
  138. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years?
  139. The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side?
  140. Butterflies taste with their feet?
  141. If Antarctica's ice would melt the oceans would rise about 60 meters?
  142. All polar bears are left-handed?
  143. You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206?
  144. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than the venom of a Black Widow but they cannot bite humans because their fangs are to short?
  145. A barnacle has the largest penis of all animal in relation to its size?
  146. Your foot and your forearm, (from your wrist to the inside of your elbow), are the same length?
  147. Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree?
  148. Electric eels produce enough energy in one shock to light up every room in an average three bedroom house?
  149. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado?
  150. When opossums are playing possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror?
  151. Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water?
  152. An elaphant's teeth can weigh as much as nine pounds?
  153. Goats and octopus' eyes have rectangular pupils?
  154. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing?
  155. There are between 5,000 and 7,000 tigers kept as pets in the United States?
  156. Flies taste with their feet?
  157. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails?
  158. There are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects?
  159. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2 200 people?
  160. Frogs absorb water through their skin and don't need to drink water?
  161. There are microbes whose optimal growth temperature is above 100 C?
  162. A goldfish memory is three seconds?
  163. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula?
  164. People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers?
  165. Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it strike women?
  166. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car?
  167. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant?
  168. Frogs need both water and land to live?
  169. A full moon always rises at sunset?
  170. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump?
  171. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain?
  172. Our eyes are always the same size from birth to death?
  173. About 10% of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice?
  174. A jellyfish is 95 percent water?
  175. For 3000 years, until 1883, hemp was the world's largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fabric, soap, medicines, paper, and oils were produced?
  176. Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur?
  177. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open?
  178. The thumbnail grows the slowest while the middle nail grows the fastest?
  179. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs?
  180. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down?
  181. About 38% of North America is wilderness?
  182. Time slows down near a black hole and ceases to exist inside a black hole?
  183. In 1958 the US sent 2 mice into space - Benjy and Laska?
  184. Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails?
  185. A lightning bolt reaches up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit?
  186. To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day?
  187. There are 27650 known species of fish?
  188. From space, the brightest man-made place in the world is Las Vegas in Nevada?
  189. Sound travels through water much faster, about 4 times, than through air. Through steel, it can travel roughly 15 times faster than air?
  190. Male horses have more teeth than female horses? Males have 40 while females have 36?
  191. Turnip seeds can increase their weight 15 times a minute and in rich soil they may increase their weight 15 000 times a day?
  192. The world's largest carnivorous animal is the Alaskan brown bear?
  193. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world?
  194. The distance traveled by light in one year is approximately six million miles?
  195. Your ears never stop growing no matter how old you are?
  196. The first picture on the moon was taken with a Swedish camera?
  197. The first spacecraft to reach the moon was in 1959?
  198. The diamond is the hardest natural substance found on earth?
  199. The Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27 feet?
  200. Yuma in Arizona has most sunny days in USA. On average, each year there are 332 sunny days?
  201. Platinum is so rare that two million pounds of ore may contain only one pound of metal?
  202. 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321?
  203. Quartz is one of the most common minerals on Earth?
  204. You can smell a skunk at 000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray?
  205. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child is two to six years of age?
  206. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants?
  207. Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day?
  208. A snake just like all reptiles are incapable of learning?
  209. A snail can sleep for three years?
  210. The little bumps on your tongue hold more than 9,000 taste buds?
  211. Snakes are completely deaf?
  212. The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and needs only to land once every couple of years to breed?
  213. Snakes have no eyelids?
  214. The only month in recorded history that didn't have a full moon was in February 1865?
  215. Lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards?
  216. Pearls melt in vinegar?
  217. Rougly 75% of a living tree is composed of water?
  218. Most snakes have over 200 teeth?
  219. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined?
  220. Blood is about 78% water?
  221. Turtles can breathe through their butts?
  222. If you fart constantly for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb?
  223. Mexico City sinks about 10 inches each year?
  224. A cow farts about 600 litres of metangas every day. That is enough to fyll up 40 party ballons?
  225. Guinea has the wettest capital on Earth with 3.7 metres of rain a year?
  226. The heart beats about 100 000 times each day?
  227. Your system of blood vessels is over 60 000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice?