- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- 20% of China's plants are used in medicine.
- The opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'.
- Scorpions glow under ultra violet light.
- You can cut a pie into 8 pieces with only three cuts.
- Whales can't swim backwards.
- The drinking straw was invented in 1886.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles).
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
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