~ Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
~ Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
~ The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
~ Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
~ The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
~ 100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.
~ The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
~ The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
~ The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
~ A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).
~ The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.
~ The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
~ Starfish don't have brains
Here are some facts about space
~ If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
~ Uranus was originally called George’s Star.
~ The Big Dipper is not a constellation, it is an asterism.
~ The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds.
~ The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
~ The moon is drifting away from Earth.
~ We are moving through space at the rate of 530km a second.
~ If you put Saturn in water it would float.
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