- Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- A hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute.
- You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.
- The stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
- Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
- There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- When a member of a whale group is sick or injured, other whales will push it up to the surface of the water to help it breathe.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
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