Facts!!
1.Armadillos have shells so hard they can deflect a bullet.
Armadillos are characterized by a leathery armour shell and long sharp claws for digging.
One poor man learned this the hard way when he shot at an armadillo only to have the bullet ricochet off the indestructible beast, and back at him into his jaw! The man was airlifted to hospital. Amazingly, the armadillo just walked off unscathed.
2.Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest!
Bees can fly up to 29,520 feet above sea level – higher than the planet’s tallest Mountain.
3.Bats are the only mammal that can actually fly.
Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight.
4.The heart of blue whale is the largest animal on earth.
The heart of the blue whale, the largest animal on earth, is five feet long and weighs 400 pounds. The whale in total weighs 40,000 pounds.
5.Octopuses have three hearts.
Octopuses have a closed circulatory system, in which the blood remains inside blood vessels. Octopuses have three hearts; a systemic heart that circulates blood around the body and two branchial hearts that pump it through each of the two gills.
6.The Burj Khalifa is so tall you can see two sunsets from it in one day.
You can see the sunset happen at ground level, and then if you get the elevator all the way up the building you can see it set again from the top.
7.The British Queen’s handbag is a body language communication device.
It is used by her to relay secret and silent messages to her staff.
For example, if she is finished speaking to a guest she will move it from one arm to another and her aides will politely end the conversation, or if she wants to abruptly end a conversation she will put her bag on the ground.
8.Peanuts, walnuts, almonds, cashews and pistachios aren’t nuts .
They’re classed as seeds, because a nut is defined as “a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior kernel”.
9.Antarctica is the world’s largest desert.
The two largest deserts on Earth are in the polar areas. The Antarctic Polar Desert covers the continent of Antarctica and has a size of about 5.5 million square miles. The second-largest desert is the Arctic Polar Desert.
10.Your nose and ears never stop growing.
They are the only two parts of your body that keep growing when all your other features’ growth comes to an end.
11.The Eiffel Tower “grows” in the summer.
Due to the heat expansion of the tower’s iron in the summer sun, the Eiffel Tower’s height can grow by up to 6 inches!
12.The smallest dinosaur ever discovered is only 16 inches long.
Discovered in China, the Microraptor is one of the most recent dinosaur discoveries and is the smallest ever found.
Most of the specimens that have been found have also been fully grown, so the baby Microraptors would have been even smaller!
13.In England, pigeon poop is property of the Crown.
This is because pigeon poop could be used to make gunpowder.
Because of this, King George I declared all pigeon poop to be property of the Crown in the 18th Century.
14.Koalas have unique fingerprints.
Scientists think the koala's fingertip features developed much more recently in its evolutionary history, because most of its close relatives (such as wombats and kangaroos) lack them.
15.World’s oldest vertebrate is a shark that may live for 500 year .
Living deep in the North Atlantic and the frigid surface waters of the Arctic, Greenland sharks have a stable environment and grow just a few centimetres per year
16.A TI-83 calculator has six times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo-11 on the moon.
the TI-83 includes many features, including function graphing, polar/parametric/sequence graphing modes, statistics, trigonometric, and algebraic functions, along with many useful
applications .
17.Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetime, completely replacing their outer skin every month.
According to recent research, humans shed their epidermis at the rate of 0.001 - 0.003 ounces of skin flakes every hour. That is roughly 0.024 - 0.072 ounces per day and 9-27oz/year, or 0.55 - 1.6 pounds per year.
18.Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
Some species of starfish have the ability to regenerate lost arms and can regrow an entire new limb given time . A few can regrow a complete new disc from a single arm, while others need at least part of the central disc to be attached to the detached part.
29.The average hummingbird's heart rate is more than 1,200 beats per minute.
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An average hummingbird’s heart rate is more than 1,200 beats per minute. In comparison, a human's average heart rate is only 60 to 100 beats per minute at rest.
Hummingbirds have 1,000 to 1,500 feathers, the fewest number of feathers of any bird species in the world.
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