🌏. Camels' humps actually store's fatty tissue, not water, which is used as a source of nourishment.
🌏. A single strand of spider silk is thinner than a human hair, but also five times stronger than steel of the same width.
🌏. Bamboo is the world's fastest growing plant, it can grow at a rate of 35 inches in a day.
🌏. Each Pineapple plant can only flower and fruit once which can take up to 2 to 3 years.
🌏. Only 3% of our planet's water is drinkable. 97% of it is salt water. More than half of the earth's fresh water can be found frozen in glaciers.
🌏. Our oceans have an average depth of 12,400 feets. This means that most of the living things on our planet live in total darkness.
🌏. In the last 170 years, we added to 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. Half of this was added in the last 35 to 50 years.
🌏. To observe Earth our let us all turn off all non essential lights for 1 hour starting from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
🌏. African buffalo herds display voting behaviour, in which individuals register their travel preference by standing up, looking in one direction and then lying back down.
🌏. Caffeine which is found in tea leaves, Guarana berries, Kola nuts and of course, coffee beans acts as a natural pesticide.
🌏. Bats are natural pest control as they pray on insects as their main source of nutrition and help keep the insect population in control.
🌏. Snakes sleep with their eyes open. They can only close their retina as they do not have eyelids.
🌏. Octopuses have three hearts, one pumps blood around the body, while the other two pump it to the gills.
🌏. Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times every second.
🌏. Polar bears have jet black skin under their white fur coats.
🌏. Humpback whales use bubbles to hunt.
🌏. Honeypot ants swell up to a huge size with food.
🌏. A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
🌏. The Japanese spider crab has the longest leg span 100-120 cm of any arthropod.
🌏. A Giraffe has 7 bones in its neck, which is the same as a human.
🌏. The desperate leaf chameleon is less than 3cm long.
🌏. The shortest living animal in the world is the Mayfly. It's entire lifespan is just 24 hours.
🌏. Panda's 🐼 must eat 12-38 kg of bamboo every day to meet their energy needs.
🌏. Even after having its head cut off, a cockroach can still live for weeks.
🌏. A grizzly bear's bite is strong enough to crush a bowling ball.
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