UPD: Roxanne, thank you for being attentive. Fixed now.
Astronomer here! Clap your hands once, and then clap them again a second later. The two claps were actually done about 30,000 miles apart thanks to the Earth's motion in space!
A group of zebras is called a dazzle and a group of giraffes is called a journey
When they die, ants release pheromones attracting other ants to come and carry their dead bodies away to their graveyards.
You're more likely to be bitten by a shark AND struck by lightning than win the lottery.
The smell of rain is caused by gases released by bacteria in the earth in reaction to rainwater. It's called petrichor, petri meaning stone.
Otters sometimes hold hands to sleep when in the water, so that they don't drift apart when floating in the sea
A single little brown bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in a single hour.
Turtles can breathe through their butts!
Sharks don't actually like eating people (we apparently taste bad to them), that's why most shark bites stop there. Most sharks bite people out of curiosity or because the person unwittingly provoked the shark
Dogs can tell when your coming home by how much of your scent is left in the house if you have a daily routine
If you make an animal sound at the animal, chances are it will answer you back.
Turkeys are a good example, they answer almost every time. Sheep are quite regular as well.
Birds like chickens descended from dinosaurs. Watch them look at their chicken nuggets in absolute awe
Octopuses have 3 hearts Plus they have 8 arms, not tentacles And they have blue blood
There are numbers below zero
Every ‘c’ in ‘Pacific Ocean’ is pronounced differently
The fear of long words is known as hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
The oxygen that we breathe is the same oxygen that has been around since ancient times. In other words, the air you breathe may very well be the same air breathed by a dinosaur
Pluto hasn't completed a lap around the sun since it was discovered
Humans can run for longer than any other animal.
When you look up at the night sky and see a star, it's because a little particle of light called a photon shot out of the star and traveled across the vast distance of space and time to land safely in your eye. You're catching a little bit of ancient star whenever you see one
Broccoli is man-made. It was bred out of wild cabbage by human beings. It didn't appear naturally until human beings created it
Elephants have special graveyards and mourn their fellow elephants when they die.
We will never experience tomorrow as by the time it's "tomorrow", it will be today
Sharks have been around longer than trees have.
Some ants can learn to farm aphids for their honey as humans farm cows for milk
A person gives off more heat than a person-sized piece of the sun.
There are species of jellyfish that are thought by scientists to be immortal. The only way they can die is by disease or injury.
There are butterflies that mimic the pattern of Monarch butterflies to avoid being eaten by predators because Monarch butterflies are poisonous and predators avoid eating them. In nature, this is called mimicry.
By the standards of the universe,you are both stronger and weaker than millions of things
You can't lick your elbow
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