- Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs.
- Acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys).
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Mountain lions can whistle.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- You take over 23,000 breaths everyday.
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