- Ostriches don't bury their heads in sand.
- The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric).
- The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.
- Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.
- Scorpions glow under ultra violet light.
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans which go into the production of chocolate.
- The doorbell was invented in 1831.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
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