- The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.
- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
- There is no sound in space.
- The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely.
- The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
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