- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined.
- Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex.
- A female ferret is called a jill.
- 'orology' is the study of mountains.
- Dolphin's can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away.
- It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.
- Tiger shark embryos begin attacking each other in their mother's womb before they are even born.
- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks.
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