- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
- The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots).
- Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
- The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
- Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
- The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric).
- You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.
- The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old.
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