- Due to changes in the speed of the Earth’s rotation over time, it is estimated that a day in the time of the dinosaurs was just 23 hours long.
- Hummingbirds’ wings can beat over 200 times per second.
- A seahorse can move its eyes in opposite directions to scan the water for food and predators.
- To cook an egg, a footpath would need to be 70C.
- It would take 100 Earths, lined up end to end, to stretch across the face of the sun.
- Less than 1% of Antarctica is ice-free.
- The highest wave ever surfed was as tall as a 10 storey building.
- A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- Corn is grown on every continent except Antarctica.
- You lose up to 100 hairs a day.
- Armadillo is a Spanish word meaning ‘little armoured one.’
- Unlike most fish, seahorses are covered in bony plates instead of scales.
- The world’s smallest fruit, a utricle, is the size of a small ant.
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