- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.
- If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years.
- Ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats.
- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
- Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- There is no rice in rice paper.
- The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight.
- The average person has 10,000 taste buds.
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