Did you know an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
Did you know lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
Did you know 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
Did you know rabbits like licorice
Did you know a lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
Did you know armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
Did you know reindeer like bananas
Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
Did you know birds need gravity to swallow
Did you know a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
Did you know goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep
Did you know when lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit)
Did you knows piders are arachnids and not insects
Did you know each time you see a full moon you always see the same side
Did you know the only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
Did you know Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
Did you know all insects have 6 legs
Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
Did you know a giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
Did you know fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill
Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
Did you know camel's milk doesn't curdle
Did you know elephants sleep between 4 - 5 hours in 24 period
Did you know it's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
Did you know frogs can't swallow with their eyes open
Did you know elephants are the only mammal that can't jump
Did you know frogs don't usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin)
Did you know at birth dalmations are always white
Did you know hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
Did you know a duck can't walk without bobbing its head
Did you know a hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
Did you know dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk
Did you know a crocodile can't move its tongue
Did you know hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
Did you know an elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature
Did you know crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure
Did you know reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube
Did you know cows don't have upper front teeth
Did you know an octopus pupil is rectangular
Did you know cats can't move their jaw sideways
Did you know its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky
Did you know the Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply
Did you know a group of frogs is called an army
Did you know a group of rhinos is called a crash
Did you know a group of kangaroos is called a mob
Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
Did you know a group of geese is called a gaggle
Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament
Did you know Brazil is named after a tree
Did you know Jamaica has 120 rivers
Did you know a cats urine glows under a blacklight
Did you know white cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
Did you know cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees
Did you know small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
Did you know domestic cats dislike citrus scents
Did you know cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
Did you know tree hugging is forbidden in china
Did you know Pearls melt in vinegar
Did you know giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
Did you know a crocodile can't stick out its tongue
Did you know ostriches don't bury their heads in sand
Did you know only female mosquitoes bite
Did you know hummingbirds can't walk
Did you know wind doesn`t make a sound until it blows against an object
Did you know the naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953
Did you know India is home to over 200 million cows
Did you know Bali has the worlds largest variety of flora
Did you know almonds are members of the peach family
Did you know owls can't move their eyes from side to side
Did you know gold never erodes
Did you know scorpions glow under ultra violet light
Did you know ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
Did you know diamonds are the hardest natural substance
Did you know the longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes
Did you know Christmas trees originated from Germany
Did you know more people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks
Did you know the Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second
Did you know gorillas sleep 14 hours a day
Did you know the lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
Did you know the stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair
Did you know a giraffe can go longer without water than a camel
Did you know there are more chickens than people
Did you know for every human there are 200 million insects
Did you know emus can't walk backwards
Did you know the average hen lays 228 eggs a year
Did you know Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old
Did you know more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
Did you know more people are killed from bees than snakes
Did you know the Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific
Did you know the life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
Did you know a dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)
Did you know the smallest dog is the Chihuahua
Did you know a sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
Did you know there are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
Did you know the worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba
Did you know African elephants only have 4 teeth
Did you know the rarest type of diamond is green
Did you know men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women
Did you know carrots contain 0% fat
Did you know the odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1
Did you know it takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots
Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
Did you know a flea can jump 350 times its body length
Did you know cucumbers are 96% water.
Did you know a full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon
Did you know a honeybee's top speed is 24kph (15mph)
Did you know a humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute)
Did you know flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway
Did you know a cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph)
Did you know horses sleep standing up
Did you know a jellyfish is 95% water
Did you know bats are the only mammals that fly
Did you know a cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through
Did you know a snail can sleep for 3 years
Did you know tigers have striped skin as well as fur
Did you know crocodiles are colour blind
Did you know a chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body
Did you know dogs sweat through the pads on their feet
Did you know hippopotamuses are born under water
Did you know bananas grow pointing upwards.
Did you know whales can't swim backwards
Did you know camels are born without humps
Did you know only female mosquitoes bite
Did you know the average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
Did you know tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
Did you know crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
Did you know there are more insects in the world than all other animals combined
Did you know giraffes can't swim
Did you know crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
Did you know an elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
Did you know bull's can run faster uphill than down
Did you know a shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
Did you know a moth has no stomach
Did you know grasshoppers have white blood
Did you know it takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg
Did you know there is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined
Did you know the moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days
Did you know more than 75% of all countries are north of the equator
Did you know The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake
Did you know there are no rivers in Saudi Arabia
Did you know dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow
Did you know the water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink
Did you know the Moons diameter is 3,476km
Did you know you have fewer muscles than a caterpillar
Did you know giraffes have no vocal cords
Did you know most birds eat twice their body weight each day
Did you know a group of whales is called a pod
Did you know armadillos can walk underwater
Did you know the bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
Did you know the cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws
Did you know roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks
Did you know dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away
Did you know flamingos can only eat when their heada are upside down
Did you know the fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human
Did you know a female ferret is called a jill
Did you know porcupines float in water
Did you know turnips turn green when sunburnt
Did you know you can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun
Did you know 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day
Did you know most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin
Did you know the typical wave height from Pacific tsunami is between 6 - 9 metres
Did you know there are 2 chickens for every person
Did you know there are a million ants for every person on Earth
Did you know coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
Did you know avocados have the most calories of any other fruit
Did you know emus can't walk backwards
Did you know the Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
Did you know 'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs
Did you know giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal
Did you know India has over 50 million monkeys
Did you know ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine
Did you know your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects
Did you know Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs
Did you know the sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth
Did you know every year the sun loses 360 million tons
Did you know the shell is 12% of an eggs weight
Did you know a squid has 10 tentacles
Did you know you're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other
Did you know the odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1
Did you know more people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined
Did you know a woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice
Did you know snakes can't blink
Did you know ants don`t like baby powder (talcum powder)
Did you know a rat can tread water for 3 days
Did you know dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout
Did you know sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away
Did you know bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes
Did you know the only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica
Did you know Australia has the largest sheep population
Did you know greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67kph (42mph)
Did you know you can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36)
Did you know sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest
Did you know greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed
Did you know when 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators
Did you know most cows produce more milk when they listen to music
Did you know elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear
Did you know giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal
Did you know snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise)
Did you know a blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating
Did you know pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal
Did you know gorillas can't swim
Did you know house cats have 18 claws
Did you know giraffes can't cough
Did you know the Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak
Did you know deers don't like hay
Did you know shrimps are all born male but slowly grow into females
Did you know the average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day
Did you know there are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos
Did you know the average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
Did you know a platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
Did you know spiders have transparent blood
Did you know mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes
Did you know only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey
Did you know March 14 is 'save a spider day'
Did you know there are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs
Did you know a fly's recation time is 30 milliseconds
Did you know butterflies taste with their back feet
Did you know moths have no stomach
Did you know bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second
Did you know bees have 4 wings
Did you know the color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter)
Did you know 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
Did you know there are over 15,000 different kinds of rice
Did you know Canada has more lakes than any other country
Did you know the largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily
Did you know 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean
Did you know the Nile river flows North
Did you know trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely)
Did you know rain contains vitamin B12
Did you know over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year
Did you know clouds fly higher during the day than the night
Did you know the Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles)
Did you know clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor)
Did you know Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature
Did you know the Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year
Did you know the average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons
Did you know jellyfish don't have a brain
Did you know 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star
Did you know ferrets sleep between 18 - 20 hours a day
Did you know a group of foxes is called a skulk
Did you know a hippopotamus can run faster than a man
Did you know a King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long
Did you know lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year
Did you know a male baboon can kill a leopard
Did you know rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot
Did you know a shrimp has 5 pairs of legs
Did you know elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph)
Did you know baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September
Did you know most snakes have 1 lung
Did you know camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
Did you know the night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans
Did you know flamingoes can live up to 80 years old
Did you know in Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions
Did you know most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old
Did you know out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man
Did you know an ostriches can outrun a horse
Did you know an ostriches life span is 40-45 years
Did you know squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground
Did you know wild cobras can live up to 20 years old
Did you know the average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day
Did you know a blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses
Did you know the greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72kph (45mph)
Did you know the fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots)
Did you know female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years
Did you know hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick
Did you know an arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people
Did you know whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals
Did you know penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator)
Did you know toads only eat moving prey
Did you know when born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall
Did you know a bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight
Did you know pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo
Did you know crocodiles continually grow new sets of teeth to replace old ones
Did you know the skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight
Did you know there are over 1,600 known species of starfishes
Did you know there are over 320 species of parrots
Did you know there are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk
Did you know the African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
Did you know the average American will consume over 465 trees worth of paper over their lifetime
Did you know ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats
Did you know banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall
Did you know the grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine
Did you know a pumpkin really is a fruit
Did you know brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms
Did you know dendrophobia is the fear of trees
Did you know gatophobia is the fear of cats
Did you know heliophobia is the fear of sunlight
Did you know helminthophobia is the fear of worms
Did you know herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles
Did you know hippophobia is the fear of horses
Did you know ichthyophobia is the fear of fish
Did you know melissophobia is the fear of bees
Did you know myrmecophobia is the fear of ants
Did you know ombrophobia is the fear of rain
Did you know ornithophobia is the fear of birds
Did you know a lions feed once every 3 to 4 days
Did you know lion's can't roar until the age of 2
Did you know all owls lay white eggs
Did you know the winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely
Did you know all snakes are carnivorous
Did you know the tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)
Did you know diamonds are the hardest substance known to man
Did you know when hydrogen burns in the air water is formed
Did you know due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead
Did you know hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%)
Did you know the moon is 27% the size of the Earth
Did you know the center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F)
Did you know sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet)
Did you know cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds
Did you know the oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old
Did you know there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person
Did you know a newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall
Did you know a woodpecker can peck 20 times a second
Did you know catfish have over 100,000 taste buds
Did you know the world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand
Did you know banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms)
Did you know bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber
Did you know bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium
Did you know mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet
Did you know mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes
Did you know no two spider webs are the same
Did you know there are over 900,000 known species of insects
Did you know worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15
Did you know coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old
Did you know Europe is the only continent without a desert
Did you know in 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park
Did you know the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum
Did you know the average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks
Did you know sea water is approximately 3.5% salt
Did you know there are over 900 species of bats
Did you know after bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery
Did you know the diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles)
Did you know the diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles)
Did you know Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high
Did you know dolphin's can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away
Did you know dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct
Did you know jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years
Did you know only pregnant females polar bears hibernate
Did you know polar bears are strictly carnivores
Did you know sharks have been on Earth for over 400 million years
Did you know some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long
Did you know the average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years
Did you know the tallest mammal is the giraffe
Did you know warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)
Did you know warthogs live for 15 years
Did you know when baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month
Did you know less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal
Did you know raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun)
Did you know the algae found in the world's oceans produces nearly 50% of the world's oxygen
Did you know chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time
Did you know a chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body
Did you know more than 1,000,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun
Did you know natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks)
Did you know rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon)
Did you know acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys)
Did you know all hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days
Did you know there are over 225,000 trees in New York's Central Park
Did you know chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils
Did you know 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia
Did you know every living thing on the Earth contains carbon
Did you know the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest
Did you know it takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl
Did you know the average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn
Did you know onions are part of the lily family
Did you know 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)
Did you know the softest known mineral is talc
Did you know 20% of China's plants are used in medicine
Did you know 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey
Did you know humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands
Did you know moths have white blood
Did you know the diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles)
Did you know brontology is the study of thunder
Did you know diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa
Did you know a bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second
Did you know a dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph)
Did you know flies can react to an object it sees and change direction in less than 30 milliseconds
Did you know a queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day
Did you know ants can lift 50 times their own weight
Did you know bees can see ultraviolet light
Did you know 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects
Did you know 10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects
Did you know it takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie
Did you know queen termites can live up to 50 years
Did you know most spiders have transparent blood
Did you know caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles
Did you know the fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h))
Did you know honey bees kill more people each year than snakes
Did you know there are over 100,000 different species of butterflies
Did you know there are over 80,000 different species of ants
Did you know all the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter
Did you know an area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles
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