- 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).
- Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years.
- An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
- Amathophobia is the fear of dust.
- The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.
- The Nile river flows North.
- The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day.
- The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900.
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