Funny Facts

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Wayne’s World was filmed in two weeks.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.

Amazing Facts About Animals

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!

All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth

Dogs are all direct descendants of wolves

After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old and their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month.

A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water.

Dogs have no sense of “time”
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

Starfish don’t have brains.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

All polar bears are left handed.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The Emu can run at speeds up to 45 km/hr!

The Irukandji jellyfish is only 2.5 centimetres in diameter, but can cause death to humans within days.

The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours.

Shark’s need to swim, or they will sink!

Fairy Penguins live for an average of seven years.

Facts About Flowers

The spice saffron comes from a certain type of crocus.
Tulip bulbs can be used in place of onions for cooking.
Women prefer pastel colored roses, men on the other hand prefer red.
The creamy-white bloom of the magnolia tree was designated the state flower of Louisiana in 1900 because of the abundance of trees throughout the state. Magnolia is an evergreen and the flower is usually fragrant. After the six to twelve petals of the flower have fallen away the large cone shaped fruit of the magnolia is exposed.

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The cactus family is divided into more than 100 genera. For simplicity North American cacti are placed into five groups: the prickly pears, the saguaro cactus group, the hedgehog cacti, the barrel cacti, and the pin-cushion and fishhook cacti.
Germany’s national flower, centaurea is related with the emperor of old Germany. It has been called the “Emperor’s flower”. Because of the authoritative language of the flower’s name, it naturally has been considered the national flower. Its status was not changed after the republic of Germany was established.
The rose is the best-known symbol of beauty and love. A single rose signifies simplicity.
Tulips are one of the fastest developing flowers.  They can grow up to an inch a day after being cut.
The scientific name for flowering plants is angiosperm, which means “seed bearing” from the Greek angos meaning “box” and sperm, “seed”, which comes from the ancient root “sper-”, meaning to scatter, from which we also get “sprout”.

Facts About Pollution

There are about 500 million cars on the planet and by 2030 it is expected to double to 1 billion cars.
For every one of the 6 billion people on earth, nearly four tons of carbon dioxide is spewed into the air annually.
Americans consume 22% of the worlds oil, even though they make up just 5% of the world’s population – as a result the past 100 years has seen heat trapping gases increase by 22%.
A plastic milk jug takes 1 million years to decompose.

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A plastic cup can take 50 – 80 years to decompose.
In the year AD1 there were about 250million humans on earth. It took 1,650 years for that number to double. Between 1650 and 1930 the human population rose 4 times to 2 billion. By the turn of the century 6 billion on Earth – 3X the population just 70 years earlier.
An estimated 14 billion pounds of trash, much of it plastic is dumped in the world’s oceans every year.
Special fleece-like fabrics used in clothes and blankets can be made out of recycled plastic bottles.
Soap from washing your car at home pollutes. Soap and dirt from washing your car can flow through our storm drains and ditches and end up in our streams untreated.
Waste from livestock pollutes our water. When it rains, water runs over fields and pastures and can carry harmful bacteria from livestock waste to streams and provides unwanted fertilizer in streams.
Too much soil in runoff can pollute. Soil from erosion carries pollutants and smothers salmon eggs in spawning gravel.
Sewage from boating can pollute. Untreated sewage is a significant risk to human health and wildlife.
The cost of one nuclear weapons test alone could finance the installation of eighty thousand hand pumps, giving third world villages access to clean water.
Littering pollutes. Litter thrown on the ground can end up in our storm drains, ditches, and streams.
The things we do everyday contribute to over half the pollution in Puget Sound. Litter thrown on the ground can end up in our storm drains, ditches, and streams.
Driveways and walkways can be sources of water pollution. Oil, antifreeze, and other pollutants can collect on your driveway. If you hose down the driveway, the water carries all these pollutants to the streams.
Nitrogen is essential to crops but too much will leak into groundwater and rivers causing nutrient pollution in rivers and oceans and severe human health problems from nitrate pollution.
More than 100 active pesticide ingredients are suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, and gene mutation.
Seventy-three different kinds of pesticides have been found in groundwater, which is potential drinking water.