- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals.
- More people are killed from bees than snakes.
- Your feet typically produce a pint of sweat every single day.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity.
- The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
- The worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba.
- Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around).
- Brazil is named after a tree.
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