- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.
- Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away.
- Astronauts actually get taller when in space.
- It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
- Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).
- Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- The number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand.
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