- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- A blue whale's heart beats just twice a minute when it dives.
- Over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States.
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
- A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- A squid has 10 tentacles.
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
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