Facts About AnimalsDinosaurs probably lived to be between 75 to 300 years of age. Scientists figured this out from looking at the structure of their bones.One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales. They have growth rings just like trees. These are called circuli. Clusters of them are called annuli. Each annuli show one year.The northern fur seal, rather than using a layer of fat to keep it warm, depends on its thick fur with some 300,000 hairs per square inch.ChameleonThe chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body!Did you know porpoises could surf? They are frequently seen riding the bow wave of a ship. They make no swimming motions and can ride the wake for more than an hour. They can also turn on their side or flip completely around. Surfs up porpe!Fish swimming at depths of 15,000 feet (almost 3 miles down!) can withstand a pressure of 7,000 pounds per square inch. They are able to live in these crushing depths by pumping gas into their swim bladder.You may have heard someone say, Its raining cats and dogs. There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.Some animals produce their own lights, called bioluminescence. The Brazilian railroad worm has a red light on its head and green lights down its side. All it needs to drive on the street is a turn signal.The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speed of 168-217 miles per hour.The largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. It is 6 to 8 inches in length and 4 to 6 inches in diameter. The smallest is that of the hummingbird. It is less than 0.39 inches in diameter.Whether an alligator is a male or female can be determined by the temperature of the nest where the egg is hatched 90 to 93 degrees will make it a male; 82 to 86 degrees will turn it into a female.Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marions tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years).An electric eel can produce a shock of 600 volts. Thats enough to stun large animals even knock a horse off its feet.Cows can sleep standing up.Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because Salamanders hibernate in wood.Some frogs can pull their eyes into their throat and help push food down!An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day; thats four percent of the elephants body weight!The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are only one-half-inch long when they are full grown.The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard!Hummingbirds flap their wings between 50 and 70 times a second!When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black ink.There are about 100 billion birds in the world, and about 6 billion of them make their homes in the United States.The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow.The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds.The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface.Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.Adult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is done to either giraffe.The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.The black-necked cobra, which lives mostly in Africa, spits its venom into the eyes of its victim, to cause it blindness.When two lovebirds appear to be kissing, they are actually grooming each other with their bills to keep clean and neat.A bird called the bee eater in areas of Africa thinks that riding around on the backs of other animals is fun!The dipper bird builds nests behind waterfalls for protection.Vultures can soar for hours without one beat of their wings.Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them.Foxes sometimes nip at the heals of cattle so the stomping of the cattle makes mice and other rodents come out of the ground, for the fox to eat.The guanaco of South America, a cousin of the camel, has pads on its feet to keep its feet from burning on desert sand or freezing in mountain snow.The fiddler crab can grow a new claw when it loses one of its own.Blue jays often forget where they hide winter supplies of food.The largest bird egg ever laid was laid millions of years ago by the Madagascar, or the elephant bird.Today, the ostrich is the bird that lays the largest eggs.Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.Some ducks and geese can fly as much as 332 miles a day!The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!The Egyptian vulture uses stones to smash ostrich eggs.Birds save energy by flying in a V formation.Theodore Roosevelt was the U.S. President with the most pets, including a lion, hyena, wildcat, five bears, and many more!Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea.Salamanders breath through their skin.People used to think the Manatee was a mermaid.Some fish have eyes that are the same size as their stomach!A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach!There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.You dont see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.The bee frog of Africa is no bigger than a bee.An okapis tongue can grow to be 17 inches long.Cows have four-chambered stomachs.Fish have gel-slime on their bodies that protects them from parasites.An owls eyes are bigger than its brain.The faster kangaroos hop, the less energy they use.The flying fox of Africa has a wingspan of fifty inches!GiraffeGiraffes have black tongues.A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.Some frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and continue living.Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.A ducks quack has no echo.Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs can only make 10.Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes.Starfish have eight eyesone at the end of each leg.Honeybees have hair on their eyes.The only bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird.Alligators cannot move backwards.A starfish doesnt have a brain.Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain.The Arctic tern flies an average of 22,000 miles a year!A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!Camels have three sets of eyelids.The flying fox is a bat with a wing span over five feet.On ostrichs egg weighs 3 1/2 pounds.A giant squids eyes are bigger than dinner plates.Dogs sweat only through their tongues.A kangaroo can jump 45 feet!A rabbits teeth never stop growing.You can lead a cow up a stairwell but not down a stairwell.Dogs cant see colors. Theyre color blind.Squirrels cant remember where they hide half of their nuts.The stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut!Bats always turn left when they leave their caves.Octopuses have 3 hearts.A giraffes tongue can measure 21 inches.Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!Some wild tigers can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time, and not eat again for several days.The first animal sent up to outer space was a dog.The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived (it could reach 100 feet long and weight up to 150 tons!)The smallest frog is less than 3/8 of an inch in length.The smallest cat is the Singapuras and weighs only 4 pounds.Most hamsters blink one eye at a time.Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.Cows have four stomachs.Only one mammal cant jump the elephant.Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.A goldfish can live up to 40 years.A peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 200 miles per hour.A skunk can spray its stench twelve feet away.Female lions do 90% of the hunting.A duck has three eyelids.Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.A gecko uses its tounge to clean its eyeballs!

Facts About the Human BodyCan you feel the pulse in your wrist? For humans the normal pulse is 70 heartbeats per minute. Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.Abraham Lincoln probably had a medical condition called Marfans syndrome. Some of its symptoms are extremely long bones, curved spine, an arm span that is longer than the persons height, eye problems, heart problems and very little fat. It is a rare, inherited condition.In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.Half your bodys red blood cells are replaced every seven days.By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound over a thousand feet per second!Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans (also making gases pew!). These same bacteria also make vitamin K, which causes blood to clot. If we didnt have these germs we would bleed to death whenever we got a small cut!It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.That dust on rugs and your furniture is not only dirt. Its mostly made of dead skin cells. Everybody loses millions of skin cells every day which fall on the floor and get kicked up to land on all the surfaces in a room. You could say, Thats me all over.It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.Submitted by: LovellaA humans small intestine is 6 meters long.The human body is 75% water.Submitted by: veggykid15Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a humans blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. Thats enough to go around the world twice.Submitted by: ToddThe strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and its hollow!Submitted by: aquagirlThe width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.Submitted by: blue120The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.The farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) Thats the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray cloud almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.Submitted by: ToddThe average person has at least seven dreams a night.Submitted by: Christina & JessicaYour brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.Submitted by: Christina & JessicaYour brain is 80% water.85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.Your forearm (from inside of elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot.Submitted by: JoshA sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit!Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year.There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206.The smallest bones in the human body are in your ear!Submitted by: The PhoenixYour mouth uses 75 muscles when you speak!Submitted by: DevinWhen you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done!Submitted by: Katie MaeIt is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.Submitted by: Mazda RoxxThe average growth of hair is half an inch per month.Submitted by: AmyliaIf hair remains uncut, it can grow up to 5 feet long.Submitted by: AmyliaYour tongue, eye, and jaw muscles are among the strongest muscles in your body.Submitted by: Jazzy T

Facts About Insects and BugsNight butterflies have ears on their wings so they can avoid bats.Monarch caterpillars shed their skin four times before they become a chrysalis, growing over 2700 times their original size.There may be as many as 3,000 different kinds of insects more than all the other animal and plant species combined.Of the huge numbers of insects, only a tiny amount, one percent, are harmful to humans. Most insects are harmless or actually beneficial. For example, without bees to pollinate flowers, plants would not have a way of reproducing and we wouldnt have anything to eat!Locusts can eat their own weight in food in a day. A person eats his own body weight in about half a year.The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!The desert locust is the worlds most destructive insect. It can eat its own weight in food every day. Large swarms can gobble up to 20,000 tons of grain and plants in a day.The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey!Out of every 1,000 Mosquitos, one female carries a disease that could be fatal to humans.Honeybees have hair on their eyes.The average housefly lives for one month.There is only one insect that can turn its head the praying mantis.A slug has four noses.Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second.Only male crickets can chirp.Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!About 80% of the Earths animals are insects!The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour.The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs!The praying mantis is the only insect that can look behind its shoulders.One kind of insect called a spittlebug, lays its eggs in a big nest of saliva bubbles. I guess no predator would look for a meal in there!A snail can sleep for 3 years straight!The heaviest insect in the world weights 2.5 ounces.A cockroach can live for up to 3 weeks without its head!A butterfly has its taste receptors in its feet!The mayfly only lives for 8 hours!The female black widows poison is 15 times deadlier than a rattlesnakes!There are worms in Australia that are over 4 Feet Long!The weight of all the termites in the world outweigh the weight of all humans 10 to 1!

Facts About LanguageThe language of a society changes slowly but steadily with the result that an educated person will not be able to read or understand words in his language written 500 years ago.Do you feel like you cant talk to your parents? Maybe its because you belong to the Niger-Congo family. More than 1,400 languages are spoken by different members of this family from Africa.It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken languages in the world today is about 6,000.There is no word that rhymes with orange.Pinocchio is Italian for pine head.The most common letters in English are R S T L N E.There is no word that rhymes with purple.There was only one code during World War II that was never broken by the enemy and was used by the US Army. Navajo soldiers, called Codetalkers, developed a radio code based on their native language. It was the only way US soldiers on the battlefield could be sure that messages were from there own side and not from Japanese imitators.Did you know that the word typewriter is the longest word in the English Language that can be spelled with the the top of the keyboard?You speak about 4,800 words a day.HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of long words.The holiday Boxing day was originally celebrated in England,for the servants to the rich people. After chrismas,the servants boxed up all the left-overs from the rich people and bring them home.A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same way from both ends. For example: racecar

Facts About Outer SpaceMonks in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side of the Moon. It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into the Moon and left a large crater. It was a good thing the Moon was between us and the meteor!See the rings of Saturn while you can. They slowly wobble up and down over the years as Saturns poles point away from then towards the sun. The rings disappear when edge on to our line of sight. Currently they are almost at their widest point and can be seen even in binoculars and small telescopes.Stars viewed through even the largest telescopes look like tiny points of light. But astronomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph a star called Betelgeuse (pronounced beetle jooze), have now been able to see the surface of another star. Betelgeuse is a red, giant star located at the left shoulder of the constellation Orion and is the largest known star in our galaxy.Not all stars are found inside galaxies. Astronomers have found stars moving between the galaxies, which are millions of light years apart. These stars may even have planets, possibly with intelligent life on them. If they do, these beings would see a lonely sky with just one star (its own sun) and a few faint galaxies.The Hubble Telescope has photographed pictures of auroras on Jupiter and Saturn very much like those at our North and South Poles. But if we had auroras as big as these, they would cover the entire Earth and more.If you were to place the planet Saturn in a big enough bowl of water, it would float!Submitted by: Mark-RobertAfter a blistering day of exploring, astronauts may relax with a nice cold glass of ice water from Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. Since there is no atmosphere there to spread the heat around, shadows in deep craters at the poles could hold ice deposited by early comet collisions.Where do comets come from? There is a huge cloud of objects made of ice and rock encircling our solar system, called the Oort Cloud. It lies beyond Pluto and extends half way out to the next star. These objects occasionally bump into each other, sending one in towards the sun to become a comet like the recent Hale-Bopp comet.Someday you may go ice fishing on Jupiters moon, Europa. Evidence is being constantly discovered that there is an ocean under the ice of Europa. The ice would keep the ocean from evaporating and huge tides caused by Jupiter would keep the ocean temperature above freezing. What kinds of life might there be in such a strange ocean?A giant game of cosmic pool was played when the solar system was first formed billions of years ago. Neptune was hit by an asteroid so big it was knocked sideways on its axis. It orbits with one pole pointed at the sun. Venus was hit so hard it is almost upside down and is the only planet to spin backwards on its axis. And most astronomers believe the Moon was formed when an asteroid almost the size of Mars hit Earth and shot debris into orbit. I wonder who won the game and when is the next tournament?Submitted by: ToddWhen you think youre standing still remember this fact. Even though you dont feel it, our entire local group of galaxies is moving at about one million miles per hour toward another galaxy group called the Virgo Cluster.Submitted by: ToddScientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick.Submitted by: ToddJupiters giant red spot is like a tornado and it is 3 times bigger than the earth.Submitted by: MacsmomThe largest crater on the moon measures 183 miles across.Astronomers know Mars is a backwards planet. Once a year, for several days, it appears to move backwards in its orbit. This is actually an optical illusion when the faster orbit of Earth races past Mars.Submitted by: ToddThe farthest you can see with the naked eye is 2.4 million light years away! (140,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles.) Thats the distance to the giant Andromeda Galaxy. You can see it easily as a dim, large gray cloud almost directly overhead in a clear night sky.Submitted by: ToddJupiter is a planet made entirely of gases.The first animal sent up to outer space was a dog.If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days.Saturns moon, Titan, actually has many geysers spewing out of its south poles. Scientists have said that the geysers are very similiar to the ones here on earth.Submitted by: Lexie

Facts About PeopleShakespeares tombstone in Stratfords Holy Trinity Church bears this inscription, said to have been written by him: Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear to dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones.The Hindus of India once believed that the Earth was a huge bowl (to keep the oceans from falling off) held up by giant elephants standing on long pillars. No one back then ever thought to ask what the pillars were standing on!The first black surgeon to do open heart surgery was Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. In 1893, he saved a man who was knifed by opening his chest and sewing together the wound, which was only a fraction of an inch from his heart. He was one of the first to do this. He accomplished this without any modern medical devices, such as x-rays.Thomas Crapper developed the flush toilet. In 1884, he simulated the materials a toilet would normally handle, to create a super-flush which had completely cleared away: 10 apples, 1 flat sponge, 3 air vessels, Plumbers Smudge coated over the pan, 4 pieces of paper adhering closely to the soiled surface. A fantastic feat of flushing!Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother!A Japanese explorer named Maomi Uemura was the first man to reach the North Pole alone, on April 29, 1978, after his eight-week journey.Mark Twain, one of Americas best-loved authors, dropped out of school when he was 12 years old, after his father died.On April 2, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman candidate for the U.S. presidency.Babe Ruth kept a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool.Abraham Lincoln once invented a device for lifting riverboats over shallow water.Did you know that the Egyptians thought the world was in the shape of a rectangle and that the heavans were held up by four giant pillars? They also warned sailors not to go to far away or you just might row off the giant rectangle called Earth. When the Queen of England heard this she sent 4 ships south, north, east and west to search for these pillars. When they didnt find any (because the world is in the shape of a sphere) they questioned the Eygptians and they told her the pillars must have been farther than they predicted! Clever werent they?There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206.A dentist invented the electric chair!!!The largest baby to be born so far weighed in at 15 pounds, 5 ounces!Sir Edmund was the first to climb Mt. Everest and return back.The tallest man in this world was Robert Wadlow, a chinese man who was 71 tall!Thomas Edison, the inventor of the lightbulb, was actually afraid of the dark.

Facts About Weather and NatureYou may have heard someone say, Its raining cats and dogs. There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.Almost two-thirds of the earths surface is covered by water. If the earth were flat, water would cover everything in a layer two miles deep!During a solar eclipse, the shadows of leaves make the same crescent shape of the eclipsing sun. The image is made by light passing through tiny holes in the leaves.Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the solar system Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of the heat received from the sun.Geologists have discovered there seems to be more water miles deep between the rocks of Earths mantle than in all the oceans of the world. The intense pressure of the tons of rocks above keeps the hot water from turning to steam and escaping.Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid.The biggest canyons in the world are under water. Beneath the Bering Sea off Alaska there are seven giant canyons: Bering Canyon, 240 miles long; Navarin Canyon, 60 miles wide; Zhemchung Canyon, 9000 feet deep. In comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is only 10 miles wide, one mile deep and 250 miles long.The Sahara, one of the worlds largest and driest deserts with sand up to thirty feet deep was once a land with flowing rivers, humid swamps and lush fields. Cave painting, 9,000 years old, found in the heart of the Sahara, show men herding cattle and hunting lions and hippos. About 2,000 years ago the cave painters, herders and animals left because the area that was rapidly becoming the desert we know today.Seeds from a wild flower, the Artic Lupine, found in Alaska, have grown in the lab after being frozen in the ground for 10,000 years.The bristle-cone pine, which grows in the deserts of Nevada and California, is the oldest living species in the United States. Some are believed to be 4600 years old and can live to be 5500 years old.Monster waves of over 100 feet tall can suddenly appear at sea when there is no storm to cause them. They are actually accidental meetings of several waves that can combine to form one huge one that can easily sink a freighter.When scientist drilled through the ice of Antarcticas Lake Vanda, they discovered that the water at the bottom of the lake was an amazingly warm 77 degrees Fahrenheit. Ice crystals actually heat the water by focusing on the bottom of the lake.The 6,288-foot summit of New Hampshires Mount Washington has some of the worst weather in the world. The strongest wind measured was 231 miles per hour. The official low is 47 below zero Fahrenheit, but the cold often combines with the wind to produce wind-chills of 150 degrees below zero. The ground is permanently frozen in a layer from 20 to 100 feet below the surface. Since 1851, over 100 people have died of falls or exposure on the mountain.8,200 below the surface of the ocean a ridge of volcanoes stretch around the globe. Vents in the ridge spew mineral rich water at temperatures of 700 degrees Fahrenheit or more. In the hot waters, bacteria live feeding on the minerals. Tube worms grow to six feet long and foot long clams grow 500 times faster than their relatives living near the surface.On February 20, 1943 in a cornfield near the village of Paricutin, Mexico, the ground cracked open and began to spew red-hot rocks. A volcano was born. It grew to 35 feet the first day. By 1952, it had soared to 1,352 feet and had buried two towns.A two-mile thick dome of glacial ice covers most of Greenland. The weight of the ice is so great that if it suddenly melted the bedrock of the island would rise 2500 feet!Iceland is a 39, 000 square mile island that is built of lava from volcanoes. Major eruptions occur every 6 or 7 years. Almost 1/3 of the worlds lava output since 1500 has poured out onto Iceland.There are giant waterfalls under the ocean! The largest is between Greenland and Iceland. This submarine waterfall drops 11,500 feet; three times the height of any land waterfall.The loudest sound in history was recorded in July 1883 when a volcano on the tiny Indian Ocean island of Krakatau erupted. The explosion was heard 3,000 miles away in Madagascar. Ash clouds shot 25 miles into the sky. The eruption also created giant tsunami, sea waves, that reached heights of 175 feet, speeding across the ocean at 400 miles an hour and destroyed over 300 towns.Ball lightning can sometimes float through a glass window without breaking it; other times the glass is smashed to pieces!Have you ever heard the expression, knock your socks off? If you are struck by lightning, your socks and shoes may be knocked off. Rapid evaporation and expansion of sweat on your skin blows your clothes off. You may not be hurt if the current does not enter your body.The place with the most number of rainy days per year is Mount Waialeale on Kauai, Hawaii up to 350 days. The longest time that a place remained without rain was Arica, Chile from October, 1903 to January, 1918 14 years!The more salt you put on ice, the more the ice melts.The hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of 136.4 degrees F was once recorded.Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, where a temperature of 126.9 degrees F below zero was once recorded.It gets as cold as minus 160 degrees F. ten miles above the ground on earth!Raindrops arent really shaped like drops; they are perfectly round!Antarctica gets less precipitation than any other continent on earth.The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on earth, where it has an average of three-hundredths of an inch of rain per year.The greatest snowfall recorded in a day was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado on April 14-15, 1921. I wonder how long schools were closed?Submitted by: ToddHold on to your hat! The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 231 miles per hour on Mount Washington, New Hampshire on April 12, 1934.Submitted by: ToddThe hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day!A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun.Submitted by: BOnce in England, because of a water spout, it rained frogs!Submitted by: TaylorsRoy Sullivan, A U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes!Lightning strikes 1,000 times per second on the planet earth.Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, unless theyre in Ireland.Cows sometimes sit down in a field when they know its going to rain. (that way, they are saving a dry spot to sit for themselves).How long can you tread water? The greatest rainfall recorded in a day was 73.62 inches at Reunion in the Indian Ocean on March 15, 1952.Submitted by: ToddOne inch of rain is equal to 10 inches of snow.The number of bacteria in a quart of soil from your backyard garden is 30 times greater than the population of the world.Steamboat Geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, is the most powerful geyser in the world, and can shoot super-hot water 300 feet in the air.Every year, plants make and store ten times the amount of energy that people use.Glass is made of sand.Did you know that the Empire State Building once got stuck by lightning 9 times in 20 minutes.Submitted by: KathrynIn the tropical rainforest it gets about 80 to 400 inches of rain yearly. If it is raining really hard, it gets about 2 inches of rain per hour.Submitted by: EmilyOne tree can provide enough oxygen for 2 people to live off of for their whole lives.Submitted by: MichelleThe lowest place in North America is Death Valley at 282 feet below sea level.Submitted by: Tina

Facts About World RecordsThe fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speed of 168-217 miles per hour.Hans Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2 feet long! When he died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian Institute.The deadliest disease was the pneumonic form of the Black Death of 1347-1351. It had death rate of 100%.The largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. It is 6 to 8 inches in length and 4 to 6 inches in diameter. The smallest is that of the hummingbird. It is less than 0.39 inches in diameter.The hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of 136.4 degrees F was once recorded.Antarctica is the coldest continent on earth, where a temperature of 126.9 degrees F below zero was once recorded. Chicago is home to three of the five tallest buildings in the world the Sears Tower, Standard Oil Building, and John Hancock Center.The hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day!Angel Falls in Venezuela is 20 times taller than Niagara Falls.The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived (it could reach 100 feet long and weight up to 150 tons!)Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game in 1962, when he played for the Philadelphia Warriors.The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years!The longest conga to this date included 119,986 people.The smallest cat is the Singapuras and weighs only 4 pounds.The longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled The Cure for Insomnia.Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, standing 29,028 feet high.Did you know that there is a world record for seeing how many times you can attempt a world record?!The smallest dog recorded was a Yorkie and was only 4 inches tall. The biggest dog weighed 344 pounds- more than two full grown men!The largest baby to be born so far weighed in at 15 pounds, 5 ounces!The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Revolution of EarthDid you know that the Earth really revolves 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds, not really 24 hours.Guest RafCataractSometimes , the crystalline lens of old people become milky and cloudy , this is called cataract It causes partial or complete loss of visionGuest MysteriouspineappleDo you know that pineapple,orange and tomatoes are berries!Guest guest minnieAmazing Pure Gold!!!Pure gold is so soft that it can be molded by hands!Guest KittienellaReal Life DragonThe Komodo dragon is a renowned giant, with the average male measuring it at around 8 feet long; some exceptional individuals do grow up to 10 feet long. Incidentally, the longest lizard of all is not that Komodo but rather its much slimmer relative the Salvadori monitor from New Guinea, although it must be noted that two thirds of its 9 feet body length is made up by its tail. The Komodo though is the heaviest lizard of all, with an average weight of 130Ibs with some reaching nearly 180Ibs. Its also one of the most fearsome predators you could ever have the misfortune of encountering anywhere on the planet. It has large, sharp, serrated teeth for cutting and tearing prey, but its concealed weapon is its bacteria laden saliva. Once bitten, the victim commonly escapes, but within a few days the effects of the bacteria take hold. All the while, the dragon is tracking it down using its acute sense of smell, a sense that also makes it a very efficient scavenger.Guest xyn_rycelwhere did the word nuclear related fromThe word nuclear is related to the nucleus of an atom, it is often used to describe the energy produced when a nucleus is split (fission) or joined with another (fusion).Guest xyn_rycelCockroachDid you know that a cockroach will live 9 days without its head, before it starves to deathkate_IamMeeinstein refuseDid you know that EINSTEIN refuse the job to be the president of the israel they asked einstein to be the president because their president is died in 1952.Melanie_pusheenEarliest Fossil CockroachDid you know?The earliest fossil cockroach is about 280 million years old 80 million years older than the first dinosaurs.Guest janellaEarliest fossil cockroachDid you know? The earliest fosill cockroach is about 280 million years old 80 million years older than the first dinosaursGuest Penelopenewts are also an amphibiannewts are member of salamander family.they are found in north america, europe and also in asiaGuest makiDoes 7-Up contain lithium?The original formula for 7-Up contained lithium citrate, a chemical used today as a treament for bipolar disorders. The ingredient was ultimately removed by 1950.Guest Red SpotWhere does cashmere wool come from?Cashmere comes from the wool of the Kashmir goat from the mountains around the Kashmir region of India.Guest Cashmere FanHow hot is a lightbulb's filament?The tungsten filament inside an incandescent lightbulb reaches a temperature of 4,664 degrees Fahrenheit when turned on.Guest Dim BulbWhat makes turquoise blue?Traces of copper give turquoise its distinctive blue color.Guest Turquoise LoverNo BrainsStarfish (as with many radially symmetric animals) do not have brains.gemdragon

Astronomy Facts & Trivia GanymedeThe largest moon in the Solar System Jupiter's Ganymede is even bigger than planet Mercury.Submitted by: Ballard - Charleston, South Carolina, United States

The SunAfter helium and hydrogen, the most common element on the Sun is oxygen.Submitted by: Nusrat Islam - Orlando, Florida, United States

Boomerang NebulaBoomerang Nebula is the coldest known place in the universe.Submitted by: Jessie

Earth and MoonThe Moon is moving away from the Earth 3.8 cm every year.Submitted by: Unknown

PlutoThe entire surface area of Pluto is smaller than Russia.Submitted by: Wally D Albia - Quezon City Manila, Philippines

three golf balls on the MoonThere are three golf balls on the Moon (left by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard in 1971.)Submitted by: Eh - Canada

NeptuneWith the strongest winds, Neptune is the windiest planet in the Solar System.Submitted by: Unknown

Westerlund 1-26The largest known star Westerlund 1-26 is 2000 times bigger than the Sun.Submitted by: Andrew Loloy - Taguig, Philippines

Dark matter95% of all matter in the universe is invisible, and is called the Dark Matter.Submitted by: Unknown - Panabo City, Philippines

SunThe Sun is growing: In 5 billion years it will be 250 times bigger and close enough to swallow up the Earth.Submitted by: Refath - New York, United States

Proxima CentauriProxima Centauri is the nearest star to us after the Sun.Submitted by: Joshua - Canada

Epsilon AurigaeThe star Epsilon Aurigae dims every 27 years due to a mysterious dark object eclipsing it periodically.Submitted by: Ddsqaw

Great Red SpotThe 'Great Red Spot' - a storm on Jupiter that has been going on for 300 years - is so big that dozens of Earths would fit into it.Submitted by: Steady - Malm, Sweden

BlackholeA supermassive blackhole is believed to be present in the centre of nearly every galaxy, including our own Milky Way.Submitted by: Mansi Kookani - Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Mercury Dawn DuskOn Mercury during the day, the Sun rises, stops, about-turns and eventually sets where it rose.Submitted by: Hyde - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Galaxies Everything moves: Planets move within the Solar System, which moves within Milky Way Galaxy, which moves within The Local Group of Galaxies, which moves towards Virgo Cluster.Submitted by: Nathan Otoo - United States

venus Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate clockwise (retrograde rotation.)Submitted by: Yvonna May

Uranus All 27 of Uranus moons are named after William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters.Submitted by: Jacob Richard - Tempe, Arizona, United States

planet jupiter With 63 moons, Jupiter has the largest number of moons.Submitted by: Moi - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptuneJupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are made up of just gas with no solid surface to land on.Submitted by: Angel - United States

Astronomy Facts & Trivia - Page 2 mercuryThe temperature on Mercury varies so extremely that it will rise up to 430C during the day and drop as low as -140C at night.Submitted by: King Sid - Hyderabad, India

VY Canis Majoris and SunThe largest known star VY Canis Majoris is so big that if our Sun were a ball 117 cm (46 in) wide, Canis Majoris would be 2.25 kilometres (1.3 miles) wide.Submitted by: Colin - Portland, Oregon, United States.

venusDespite being closest to the sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet. The hottest planet is Venus (at 462 Celsius).Submitted by: Erik Halenkamp - Naples, Italy

Pistol StarThe Pistol Star is the most luminous star known - 10 million times the power of the Sun and as big as the size of Earth's entire orbit around the Sun.Submitted by: Ankita, Manaal and Anisha - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

MarsMars is red because its soil is very rusty (iron oxide.)Submitted by: Ankita Lalwani - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Constellation CruxCrux is the smallest of modern constellations, with only 4 bright stars.Submitted by: Chris Jimms

Constellation HydraThe largest of modern constellations is Hydra.Submitted by: Chris Jimms

Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman or Greek god.Submitted by: Jacob - Ohio, Unites States.

Saturn's moon TitanSaturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than all the known reserves on Earth.

Interstellar space is not complete vacuum: there are a few hydrogen atoms per cubic centimetre.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

If a pinhead-size piece of the Sun were placed on Earth, one would have to stand as far as 145 kilometres (90 miles) away to be safe.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

diamond star lucyThe star "Lucy" in constellation Centaurus is actually a huge cosmic diamond of 10 billion trillion trillion carats.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

neutron starA neutron star has such density that a teaspoonful of its matter would weigh more than all the people on Earth.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

mercury ice cratersEven though it is closest to the Sun, Mercury has ice in its craters.Submitted by: Jeuel

pluto charon ratioDue to its size, Pluto's moon Charon is also considered to be a double dwarf planet (two planets orbiting each other), rather than a moon orbiting its planet.Submitted by: Jeuel

planet jupiterJupiter is so big that twice the mass of the rest of our Solar System's planets combined would still not be enough to equal its mass.

saturn ringsMade up of billions of pieces of ice, the average thickness of each of Saturn's seven giant rings only ranges from about 200 to 3000 metres.

Hellas on MarsThe deepest surface point on Mars is Hellas, about 3 km deep.

dwarf planet plutoPluto is no longer considered a planet. It is now known as a "Dwarf Planet".Submitted by: Saphira - Lancaster, Ohio, United StatesAstronomy Facts & Trivia - Page 3 sun, jupiter and earth size comparisonAbout 1000 Earths would fit inside Jupiter - and the Sun could hold about 1000 Jupiters.

voyager 1Voyager 1 spacecraft is the farthest human-made object in the universe.Submitted by: Hyde

planet saturnThe planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.Submitted by: Am, Singapore

The speed of light - 299 million metres a second - would still take about 26 billion years to reach one end of the visible universe to the other.Submitted by: Nik, India

planet uranusOn Uranus, each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.Submitted by: Nicci - Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States

The sky is blue because when sunlight collides with our atmosphere, colours of the shortest wavelengths (violet and blue) are scattered - and our eyes are more sensitive to see blue.Submitted by: K - New York, United States

One of Jupiter's moons is believed to grow and shrink because of the water beneath its frozen surface.Submitted by: Jay - United States

red dwarf starA dwarf star is so dense that it would take 8 men to lift a teaspoon full of its matter.Submitted by: Hades - Milledgeville, Georgia, United States

The number of neuron cells in our brain is more than the total number of stars in our galaxy.Submitted by: sidd

The planet Venus has the longest day.

The Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.

The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 daysEvery second, the Sun pumps more than a million tons of material into the space through the solar wind (electrically charged particles.)

planet venusThe planet Venus does not tilt as it goes around the Sun, so consequently, it has no seasons.

NeptuneSince Neptune's discovery in 1846, it has made just about three-quarters of one revolution around the Sun.

The pressure at the centre of the Earth is 27,000 tons per square inch.

UranusUranus is tipped on its side so that one pole is pointed at the Sun, so its poles are warmer than its equator.

The smallest planet in our Solar System is Pluto (now called 'dwarf planet' and not a true planet.)

the milky way galaxyA cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the Sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way, about 225 million years.

mercuryA day on the planet Mercury is twice as long as its year. Mercury rotates very slowly but revolves around the Sun in slightly less than 88 days.

Astronomy Facts & Trivia - Page 4 star alpha herculesThe star Alpha Herculis is so big that 25 of our entire Solar System would have to be placed end to end to equal the star's diameter.

The star Sirius B is so dense, a handful of it weighs about 454,000 kgs (1 million pounds.)

The Sun contains over 99.8 percent of the total material (mass) in our Solar System, while Jupiter contains most of the rest.

The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth.

The Sun is about 149 million km (93 million mi) from Earth, yet it's 270,000 times closer than the next nearest star, which is 4.3 light years away.Submitted by: damandude - Missouri, United States

A neutron star is the strongest magnet in the universe.

A new star is born in our galaxy every 18 days.

If a pulsar's (small star made up of densely packed neutrons) piece the size of a small coin landed on Earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.

mercuryA day on Mercury, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about six Earth months.

A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 27.35 km (17 mi) per second to escape Earth's gravity.

The Sun loses 360 million tonnes of material each day.

The Earth-Moon size ratio is the largest in our Solar System, excepting Pluto-Charon.

The Sun travels at a speed of 250 km (155 mi) per second, but it still takes 230 million years for it to complete a single revolution of the galaxy.

Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our Solar System, almost three times taller than Mount Everest on Earth.

Jupiter's core is non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter, the core has become a metal. This metal is liquid metallic hydrogen.

The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

A large sunspot can last for about a week.

The Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 107,220 km/h.

There is a high and low tide because of our moon and the Sun.The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.Submitted by: Carol Cooper - United States

The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.

The Earth weighs 6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg.

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 299,792 km/s (186,282 mi/s).

An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.Biology Facts & Trivia OctopusEven a 270 kg (600 lb) Octopus can squeeze through a small coin-size hole.Submitted by: Madhuri - India

The SkinThe largest organ of the human body is the skin.Submitted by: Ton - Philippines

Demodex mites in browsMost of us have harmless microscopic mites (Demodex) living in our eyebrows.Submitted by: Nirvisha - Portage, Indiana, United States

Tuatara third eyeThe lizard Tuatara has a third eye for ultraviolet light (called a parietal eye.)Submitted by: Madhuri - India

Coco de merThe biggest seed in the world is the Coco de mer (weighing up to 18 kg.)Submitted by: Alyssa Michelle de Lemos - Philippines

babyBabies are born with more bones than adults.Submitted by: Baily - Woodward, Oklahoma, United States

honey mushroom fungusThe largest single living organism in the world is the Honey Mushroom fungus in Oregon, USA (covering 8.4 km and growing for 2,400 years.)Submitted by: Moushree - India

HydraThe water animal Hydra never gets old, and can live forever.Submitted by: Utkarsh - Gorakhpur, India

Baby alligatorsAlligators give birth to females in cold temperatures and to males when it's hot.Submitted by: Hunter4life56 - Fishers, Indiana, United States

termite queenA queen termite can live up to 50 years.Submitted by: PK - India

Barbados ThreadsnakeThe Barbados Threadsnake is the smallest snake in the world.Submitted by: Narasimha - Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India

brainThe right half of the brain controls the left side of our body muscles, and the left controls the right.Submitted by: PK - India

Kangaroo ratA kangaroo rat (genus dipodomys) can spend its entire life without drinking water.Submitted by: Mesgana Wondirad - Ethiopia

Hairy horror frogThe Hairy Horror Frog (Trichobatrachus robustus) breaks its own bones to make a claw for a fight.Submitted by: Olimor Lacerna - Quezon City, Philippines

Red blood cellsA red blood cell takes 20 seconds to circulate around the human body.Submitted by: Jalis - Karachi, Pakistan

Aa-choo!The average speed of a sneeze is around 160 km (100 mi) per hour.Submitted by: Dhairya - United Arab Emirates

Dolphin and whaleDolphins and whales don't drink water.Submitted by: Mesgana Wondirad - Ethiopia

OvumThe ovum (female egg cell) is the largest cell in the human body.Submitted by: Joemari Olea - Philippines

Cracking knucklesThe cause of the popping sound produced by knuckle cracking is largely a mystery.Submitted by: Ankur - Alwar, India

Thumb and noseThe length of your thumb is about the same as that of your nose.Submitted by: Vashita Dehradun - IndiaBiology Facts & Trivia - Page 2 A red blood cellRed blood cells have no nucleus.Submitted by: Adarsh - Patna, India

AlgaeAs much as 70% oxygen in our atmosphere is produced by marine plants and algae.Submitted by: Think - United States

BacteriaThe biomass of all bacteria on Earth is more than all the plants and animals combined.Submitted by: Bookworm - Greenbrier, Tennessee, United States

SynthiaThe synthetic biological cell "Synthia" is the first living organism whose parent is not a living thing but a computer.Submitted by: Hyde - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DNAHumans share 60% of DNA with a banana.Submitted by: Grant - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Femur BoneThe femur (thigh bone) is the largest and longest bone in the human body.Submitted by: Glen

JawThe jaw is the strongest muscle in the human body in terms of exerting force.Submitted by: Vineet - India

MayflyAn adult Mayfly's life is as short as a few minutes, but its body hatches for about a year.Submitted by: Pronoy - Sundargarh, India

Fingernails The nails on long fingers grow faster than short fingers; and fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.Submitted by: Micael Gabriel - Manila, Philippines

DNA There's about 1.8 m (6 ft) long DNA inside every cell nucleus in our body, and an average adult body contains around 50 trillion (million million) cells.Submitted by: Steve - Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Bird with magnetoreception compassSome migratory birds have a "magnetic compass" in their body (a sense called Magnetoreception) to help them navigate using Earth's magnetic field.Submitted by: Akki - Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CatfishThe catfish father keeps the eggs in his mouth until they are ready to be hatched.Submitted by: Reedell

Water Bear TardigradeThe tiny Water Bear (Tardigrade) can survive environments extreme enough to kill any other animal - with temperatures as low as -273C close to Absolute Zero to as high as 151C.Submitted by: Justin - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Cornea in the eyeCorneas are the only tissues that don't require blood.Submitted by: Pritesh Jain - Sirohi, Rajasthan, India

Giant Kelp AlgeaThe Giant Kelp algea (Macrocystis pyrifera) is the fastest growing organism on earth and can grow at a rate of 70 cm (two feet) a day.Submitted by: Edmer Aguilar

Dolphin asleepDolphins only "sleep" half awake - keeping one eye open while consciously breathing and floating on surface.Submitted by: Jeevan - Kathmandu, Nepal

Length of forearmThe length between your elbow and hand (forearm) equals the length of your foot.Submitted by: Alyssa

arms stretchedIf you fully stretch your arms out, the fingertip to fingertip length is almost exactly your body height.Submitted by: Alyssa

LungsThe lightest organ in the human body is the lung.Submitted by: Michael Vincent Sotto

Turritopsis nutriculaA kind of jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula) upon reaching adulthood can transform itself back to childhood by converting its cells. It may repeat this to live forever.Submitted by: NunnallyBiology Facts & Trivia - Page 3 Slow LorisTo avoid predators, a mother Slow Loris licks its offspring with poison before sending them off to search for food.Submitted by: Bright Tiger - Flemington, New Jersey, United States

cordyceps fungusThe fungus Cordyceps is able to "mind-control" other insects like ants to climb plants and attach there to become its food.Submitted by: Bright Tiger - Flemington, New Jersey, United States

Ostrich eggThe biggest egg in the world is the ostrich egg. It could take as many as 30 chicken eggs to equal its volume, and up to 2 hours to hard boil.Submitted by: Josie - Australia

Goliath frogThe largest frog in the world is The Goliath Frog of Gabon in West Africa and can grow as big as 33 cm long and up to 3 kg heavy.Submitted by: Anisha - Dubai, UAE.

ClownfishWhen the queen of a clownfish school dies, a male clownfish changes its gender to become female and takes her place.Submitted by: Susie - Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States.

The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.Submitted by: Manaal - Dubai, UAE.

Horseshoe crab The Horseshoe crab has blue blood.Submitted by: Manaal - Dubai, UAE.

The nerves in our body are most concentrated in our fingertips.Submitted by: Manaal - Dubai, United Arab Emirates

DolphinDolphins cannot stay long underwater because they breathe through their blowholes above water.Submitted by: Ankita L - Dubai, UAE

Belcher's sea snakeThe most poisonous snake in the world is Belcher's Sea Snake or the Faint-banded Sea Snake (Hydrophis belcheri).Submitted by: Ankita - Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Turtles and sea cucumbers can breathe through their butts.Submitted by: BJ Caronan

The cow has four stomachs, as most ruminant mammals do.Submitted by: Nicole and Sarah - United States.

Wood FrogThe little Alaskan Wood Frog is capable of reviving itself back to normal life after staying completely frozen for months, during which its heart, brain and other organs stop functioning.Submitted by: Jaleks

earthwormSome species of earthworm can have as many as 10 hearts.Submitted by: Jhun Mark Soriano

There are more species of fish in Amazon river than in the entire Atlantic Ocean (Over 2,000).Submitted by: Will Bryant - United States.

Chameleon and tongueChameleons often have tongues longer than their bodies.Submitted by: Maureen - Cavite, PH

A worm is both male and female at the same time (a hermaphrodite.)Submitted by: Science Chem Geek - Parker, Pennsylvania, United States

Dolphins and whales are mammals that don't drink water.Submitted by: Orange - United Kingdom.

Sheeps, goats and the octopus have almost rectangular-oval pupils in their eyes.Submitted by: Abby

Giraffes could pass out with blood filling their brain when they lower their neck, so they have a sponge-like organ in the head which slowly gathers and releases blood.Submitted by: Miia - London, United Kingdom.

Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 4 Poison dart frogThe Golden "Poison Dart" frog in South America is the most poisonous vertebrate in the world.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

fleaThe acceleration rate of a flea's jump is 20 times that of a space shuttle during launch.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

Railroad wormThe Brazilian "railroad worm" has a head that glows with a red light, and has a green light on its side.Submitted by: Sruthi R - Coimbatore, India

A woodpecker can peck with a force as high as 1,200 g's with each impact - equivalent to a human striking head against a wall at a speed of 25 km (16 mi) an hour each time.

A large woodpecker can peck as fast as 20 times a second and up to 12,000 times a day.Submitted by: Kenneth Lugtu

wolffiaThe world's smallest flowering plant is the Wolffia, whose one full bouquet of flowers can fit on the head of a push-pin.Submitted by: Hyde

Rafflesia ArnoldiiRafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in world, and can grow as big as an umbrella.Submitted by: Hyde

Avocados have the highest fibre and calories of any fruit.Submitted by: Hyde

Pineapple is actually a giant berry.Submitted by: Hyde

Rats can swim for about 1 km (0.5 mi) without rest, and can tread water for three straight days.Submitted by: Skittles - United States

Our eyes can distinguish as many as 10 million distinct colour variations.

An average adult human has skin weighing about 3 kg in total.Submitted by: Rob

While we're awake, our brain generates enough power to illuminate a light bulb of 25 watts.Submitted by: Rob

While hibernating, frogs breathe through their skin.Submitted by: Skittles - United States

pygmy jerboaThe world's smallest rodent is Pygmy Jerboa - measuring only a couple of inches in length - and can run as fast as a horse.Submitted by: Skittles - United States

little grass frogThe world's smallest frog - The Little Grass Frog - is no bigger than a house fly.Submitted by: Skittles - United States

basket starfishWith more than 80,000 arms, the Basket Starfish has the greatest number of arms.Submitted by: Melon Head - United States

electric eelThe electric eel of South America (Electrophorus electricus) can generate over 600 volts, and can paralyze even a horse.Submitted by: Melon Head - United States

The normal energy used by our brain is 0.1 calories per minute, and could go up to 1.5 during activities such as puzzle-solving.Submitted by: Anchal Srivastava - Gorakhpur, India

While only 2% in weight, the human brain requires 15% of the body's heart work, 20% of oxygen and 25% of all glucose.Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 5For every 1000 red blood cells in our body, there is only about one white cell.Submitted by: aDaM14393

armadilloArmadillos spend about 80% of their lives asleep.Submitted by: Rozelle

The human heart has enough pressure to squirt blood up to 30 feet away.Submitted by: Cynthia - Quebec, Canada

An Octopus has three hearts.Submitted by: Sevy - Giddarbaha, India

The Methuselah tree in California, USA, is the oldest living organism (4,800 years old) known today.Submitted by: Kenneth

The Giant Burrowing Frog doesn't croak. It hoots like an owl.Submitted by: Jethro Alba

Honeybees have remained unchanged in form or structure for 20 million years.Submitted by: Jieian

An alligator may go through 2000 to 3000 teeth in a lifetime.Submitted by: Jethro Alba

Whales were once land mammals that moved to the sea and adapted to marine life.Submitted by: Faye

The tongue of a blue whale is bigger than a taxi cab, and can weigh as much as an elephant.Submitted by: Jethro Alba

There are more insects in a single square mile of fertile soil than there are people on the entire earth.Submitted by: jj - United States

The longest recorded distance flown by any chicken is about 92 m (301.5 ft) in 13 seconds.Submitted by: Jethro

Elephants can hear through their feet.Submitted by: jakx - St. Petersburg, United States

Bananas are actually giant herbs - related to the orchid family.Submitted by: Hyde

The adult heart pumps about 7,500 litres of blood every day.

There are more bacteria and microbes in our body than actual cells that make up the body.Submitted by: Emily - New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.Submitted by: kittie power - Pennsylvania, United States

The blue whale can produce the loudest sound produced by an animal - up to 188 decibels - and detected as far away as 853 km (530 mi).Submitted by: Nikhil - India

The giraffe is one of the quietest animals: it has no vocal chords to make any noise.Submitted by: Aien

A goldfish (like most marine fish) can survive in a tank full of human blood.Submitted by: Yashna, Canada.Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 6In seahorses, it's the male who gives birth to the young.Submitted by: Beau - Indianapolis, United States

You shed and regrow your skin every 28 days, that's about 1000 times in a lifetime.Submitted by: Larry - Houston, United States

The shark has to keep moving to stay alive.Submitted by: Jay - United States

An iguana always lands on its feet.Submitted by: Jay - United States

Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms, that's a 6 ft tall person jumping 780 ft in the air.Submitted by: Marita

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times each year.Submitted by: Marita

The liver is the only organ able to regenerate itself completely.Submitted by: Jay - United States

A fish never closes its eyes.Submitted by: Jay - United States

Only female mosquitoes bite people.

The Reticulated Pythons are the world's longest snake and also the longest reptile.Submitted by: eryka

95% of all the animal species on the earth are insects.Submitted by: me knows me facts, Canada

The human brain is 80% water.Submitted by: EMO - Calais, Maine, United States

If you shrunk a car to the size of a cockroach, the roach could outrun the car. Cockroaches can run about 200 scale miles per hour.Submitted by: Hades - Milledgeville, Georgia, United States

A lobster has a sense of smell about 1000 times keener than a human.Submitted by: Hades - Milledgeville, Georgia, United States

95% of all animals are invertebrates (without a backbone or spinal column).Submitted by: damandude - Missouri, United States

Frogs eat their skin after they shed it.Submitted by: Wild Child - Driggs, United States

Porcupines float in water.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

If a person or an animal is born colorblind, they instantly have excellent night vision.Submitted by: FlamegiantX - Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States

Elephants are the only land animal that can't jump.Submitted by: Ron Griffin

A teaspoonful of soil may contain 100 million bacteria.

Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.

You can figure out which way is south if you are near a tree stump. The growth rings are wider on the south side.

Eighty-five percent of all the plants and animals live in the sea.

Babies are born far sighted - their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of age.

Men have more blood in their circulatory system than women and more red blood cells.

Your blood vessels, if laid end to end, would encircle the globe twice over.

Some species of Bamboo can grow at the rate of 1 m (3.2 ft)in 24 hours.

A single bacteria cell, given all the food it needs, could divide into a ball of cells the size of the Earth in 24 hours.

The DNA in a single human cell is 37 m (121 ft) long when unravelled.

DNA unravels at 7000 RPM (revolutions per minute).

Every four days the worlds population increases by one million people.

If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would increase by 9.78 years.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 820/20 vision means the eye can see normally at 20 feet. 20/15 is better; the eye can see at 20 feet what another eye sees at 15 feet.

Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

Ants do not sleep.

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

The average human produces about a litre of saliva a day -- about 37,854 litres in a lifetime

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.Submitted by: Gads - New York, United States.

Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.

Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

Lobsters have blue blood.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 9Hummingbirds can't walk.

Moths have no stomach.

On an average, most people blink about 15,000 times in a 16-hour day (awake.)

The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.

The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.

15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

In your lifetime, you'll shed over 18 kg (40 lb) of skin.

As an adult, you have more than 6 square metres (20 sq ft) of skin on your body about the same are as a blanket for a queen-sized bed.

Everyone's tongue print is different.

The human brain is 80% water.

Only humans sleep on their backs.

There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

Armadillos can walk underwater.

Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.

Our eyeballs remain almost the same size since birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.Biology Facts & Trivia - Page 10An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

Porcupines float in water.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

Shrimp's heart is in its head.Submitted by: Scien

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Starfish don't have brains.

Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 40 cm (15.75 in) wide.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 9.1 m (30 ft) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately 0.28 cm (0.11 in) long.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in length.

Snakes are true carnivores because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.Submitted by: Jeremy - United States

93% of a water melon is water.

The human body has less muscles in it than a caterpillar.

When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.The human body contains about 9,600 km (6,000 mi) of blood vessels.

The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F