- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
- Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
- Volleyball was invented in 1895.
- The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907.
- Hummingbirds can't walk.
- A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel.
- The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.
- Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.
- Beavers were once the size of bears.
- Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe.
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