- Ostriches have a powerful immune system.
- Polar bears are strictly carnivores.
- Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.
- Most spiders have transparent blood.
- In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
- The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years.
- Diet Coke was introduced in 1982.
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
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