- The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime.
- Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct.
- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals.
- Giraffes can't swim.
- The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second.
- Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.
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