- Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. They are the national animals of many countries but a number of tiger sub-species are endangered because of human wantonness.
- Germs only cause disease, right? But a common bacterium, E. Coli, found in the intestine helps us digest green vegetables and beans.
- The average housefly lives only for one month.
- The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.
- There is no word that rhymes with orange.
- HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of long words.
- Scientists believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick.
- Water is the only substance on Earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid.
- The Sahara, one of the world’s largest and driest deserts with sand up to 30 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.
- 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 Statue of Liberty, the symbol of the US, was actually gifted by Paris.
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