- When 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators.
- Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks).
- Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%).
- The average person laughs 10 times a day.
- The Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ....
- One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.
- You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36).
- The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest.
- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
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