Fun Facts – 14 September 2016
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- Komodo dragons can devour 2kg of meat in less than a minute. Any extra fat they eat is stored in their tails.
- Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours – Jupiter’s Europa has a liquid ocean under an icy crust.
- Some Viking chiefs were buried inside their ships.
- At any given time, clouds cover about 60% of Earth.
- Spotted hyenas can digest skin and bones.
- Apes laugh when they are tickled.
- The quills of African porcupines can be as long as three pencils.
- It takes 1.5 litres of milk to make 1 litre of ice cream.
- The remote control is the dirtiest item in a typical home, hospital or hotel room.
- In Japan, people refer to a “rabbit in the moon” instead of a “man in the moon.”