"The diving bell spider lives underwater in a spun silk chamber which acts as an air bubble."
"Some bamboo plants can grow nearly a full meter in a single day."
"A new estimate suggests there are around 5 billion habitatable planets in the Milky Way alone."
"The human nose can detect around 10,000 different smells, whereas a dog can detect up to 100,000,000."
"Reinder are the only mammals that can see ultraviolet light, which helps them in snowy conditions."
"Dolphins have to be conscious in order to breathe. They can only sleep and keep breathing by shutting half of their brain down at a time."
"If you could drive a car at 60 mph towards the second nearest star to us, it would take 48,000,000 years to reach it."
"On average, humans blink 750,000,000 times during their lives."
"Paper can only be recycled six times. After that, the fibres are too weak to hold together."
"The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second, but is only aware of 40."
"If the Earth was flat, the human eye could see the flicker of a candle 30 miles away."
"At any one moment, there is up to 129,000,000,000 tons of water in the clouds above us."
"It takes about 7 seconds for food to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus."
"Loch Ness is deep enough and long enough to contain the entire population of the world 10 times over."
"The Western Painted Turtle can survive the whole winter without breathing."
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