Some interesting facts about our world and whatever lives in it.
ANIMALS
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Ants carry leaves to their nest not to eat them, to pile them and in that way forming mushroom which they eat.
Cats who fall from short distance may die or brake a bone more easily than the ones who fall from higher distance. The reason of this is that if they fall from a higher distance, they have more time to relax and to prepare the muscles of their feet.
The giraffes can clean their own ears with their tongues
The monkeys and the dolphins, together with the human, are the only animals which can recognize themselves in front of a mirror.
The only animal which fears and don't fight with the king of the jungle is...the elephant.
The eagle is the only bird which can see his prey 6 km away, and it can falls with a velocity of 130 km/h
The brain of an ostrich is smaller than his own eye.
The butterfly called “Giant atlas moth”, extends his wings to scare his enemies, and it´s length can reach the 25 cm with his wings extended.
All the ants are more aggressive in the morning when they wake up.
THE HUMAN BEING
To keep you awake, it is better to eat an apple than to drink coffee.
We sleep better in the night if we laugh in the day.
It´s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The right-handed live approx. eleven years more than the left-handed.
The nails from the hand grow up 5 times faster than the ones from the feet.
Kissing every day cleans your teeth.
NATURE
In the Oceans there is enough salt to cover all the continents.
The rivers represents 0,0001% of all the water in the earth.
There is no living specimen that doesn´t contains water. A lettuce contains 94% of water, the human 60% to 70%, and the trees 55%.
The Colorado Grand Canyon contains rocks that were formed 2.000 million years ago.
In the rain season, the Victoria falls in central Africa spill 300.000 tons of water in 1 minute.
The weight of Antarctica's´s ice has sink the continent so much, that now the majority of the continent is under the water.
Only 2.8% of the earth´s water is drinkable, 6% is liquid, and 90% is ice.
OTHERS
The word “mile” comes from the latin “mille passum”, which means 1.000 steps.
The blue toothbrush is the most used in all the world, more than any other color.
The vanilla ice cream is the most sell in all the world.
If you look straight into the eye of the most aggressive dog you can find, he won´t attack you, unless it is ordered.
