- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
- Snails can sleep for up to three years.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- Snakes eat their body weight in one year.
- A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
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