1.The Stegosaurus was 30 ft. (9 m) long, but had a brain the size of a walnut
2.In 1783 an Iceland eruption threw up enough dust to temproraily block out the Sun over Europe
3.The longest earthquake known lasted for 38 days
4.The worlds shortest river is the D River, Oregon. It is only 121 ft. (37 m) long
5.In Saudi Aribia there are solar-powered pay phones in the desert
6.The biggest animal found on inland Antarctica is the housefly
7.Venus's day is very long. It takes 243 days to spin once, and 224 days to go around the Sun.
8.Winds on Saturn blow at about 900 mhp (1400 km/h). Tornadoes on Earth blow at only 180-400 mph (300-600 km/h).
9.The cycle of seasons on Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, takes 680 years.
10.Astronauts bacome a little taller in space! There is less gravity, so their bones are less squashed together
11.As it comes back into the Earth's atmosphere, the Space Shuttle reaches a temperature of 2300 'F (1260 'C)
12.To run their equipment, satellites need only about the same amount of power as an electric toaster
13.The body's fastest message pass along the nerves at 250 mhp (400 km/h)
14.The greatest number of languages spoken by a man is 28
15.The most complicated written charecter in Chinese is made up of 64 brushstrokes and means 'talkative'
16.The longest sausage made was 13 miles (21 km) long-enough to reach to the top of the world's tallest building 44 times
17.The worlds largest palace has 1788 rooms. It was built for the Sultan of Brunei
18.The worlds largest temple is Angkor Wat in Cambodia. It is over 1000 years old
19.The worlds largest election was held in India in 1989. Over 304 million people voted and 3.5 million staff were needed to collect the votes
20.Abraham Linconl went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write
21.Lions sleep upto 20 hours a day
22.Blue Whales babies weigh upto 7 tons (7000 kg) at birth
23.Crickets have their ears positioned on their knees
24.A female cod can lay up to 9 million eggs
25.Snakes never close their eyes at anytime
26.Chemeleon lizards can look at two different directions at once
27.Elephants spend 23 hours a day eating
28.Some antelope can leap 10 feet (3 m) in the air from standing start
29.Vultures sometimes eat so much they can't take off again
30.The Okapi's tongue is so long, it can be used to lick the creatures eyes
31.The strongest-known animal poison comes from the arrow-poison frog
32.The Amazon ''Basilisk'' can run over water
33.Bacteria divide themselves once every 30 minutes or so
34.Guillemots can ''fly'' underwater
35.Flies take off backwards
36.It takes an elephant calf six months to learn how to use its trunk
37.Crocodiles sometimes climb trees
38.Some birds, such as the reed warbler, can sing in two tunes at once
39.The tarsier can turn its head right around to look behind it without moving its body
40.Giraffes have 18-inch (45-cm) long black tongues which they can use to clean their ears
41.The giraffe has seven neckbones, exactly the same as humans
42.The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards
43.Dolphins, whales and porpoises talk to each other with clicking and whistling noises
44.The arawana lives in the flooded Amazon rain forest. It can jump 6 feet (2 m) out of the water to feed on small birds or bats in the trees above
45.In Japan you can buy real pair of turtleshell glasses for about $2000
46.When the mother river dugong is killed, the tears of her young are bottled and sold as good luck potions
47.There are 9 planets and over 60 moons orbiting the Sun
48.Most people walk about 15000 miles during lifetime
49.The sea level is rising about 12 inches every 100 years
50.The Moon is moving slowly away from Earth at the rate of an inch per year
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