- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- Pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal.
- All owls lay white eggs.
- The center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F).
- There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body.
- Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second.
- Before 1863 the postal service in the US was free.
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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