- In Siberia, it can get so cold that the moisture in a person’s breath freezes instead of forming vapour. It can actually be heard when it falls to earth as ice crystals.
- China produces about 70 percent of the world's silk supply.
- Despite its great strength, the octopus tires easily. The oxygen-carrying component of its blood, hemocyanin, is copper-based and is less efficient than the iron-based hemoglobin of humans. Therefore, a struggling octopus will quickly go into oxygen deprivation, and becomes lethargic.
- Arguably the largest state in the world, Western Australia covers one-third of the Australian continent. It spans over 2.5 million square kilometres (1 million square miles).
- Among other well-known names, a group of fish can also be called a draught.
- Life is like the Internet: You begin with a logical direction, but one link leads to another and before you know it you can't remember where you were going or how to get back.
- There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
- In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
- Set in 175 acres of woodland in Yorkshire Dales, Britain's Lightwater Valley Theme Park has the longest roller coaster in the world, The Ultimate, as affirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records 2000.
- It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
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