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Amazing Distances! (from the sun)
Earth - 93 Million miles
Pluto - 2.7 Billion miles
Alpha Centauri - 25 Trillion miles
Center of Milky Way - 190 Quadrillion miles
Nearest observed Galaxies - 450 Quadrillion miles WOW!
Quick Earth Facts...
Mass - 6 sextillion, 588 quintillion short tons (5.9763 x 1027 grams)
Surface Area - 196,950,711 square miles
Escape velocity - 6.96 miles per second
Orbital velocity - 66,672 miles per hour
Quick Animal Facts...
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
A seal can swim steadily for eight months
Crickets chirp more quickly in warm weather
One termite queen can produce half a billion children
The toucan's bill is larger than its body
A saguare cactus can weigh 10 tons
Some turtles live for more than 200 years
The raccoon washes its food
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight
Polar bears are left handed
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field
Butterflies taste with their feet
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
Starfishes haven't got brains
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it
can live for several
weeks.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
Amazing...did you know that.....
Cows aren't really vegetarians?
Since grass isn't a good source of protein, the downstream part of the cow's stomach after breaking down the grass,
digests its microorganisms.
Red blood cells do not divide?
They are created in your bone marrow at the rate of 140,000 per minute and are later destroyed in the liver.
Dragonflies have over 20,000 lenses in each eye?
its true...but who's counting?
El nino events occurs regularly - every two to seven years?
Yes, they do; the name is derived for the spanish for "christ child" because the weather starts to change around Christmas.The event begins with the warming of the waters off the western coast of South America and is followed by unusual weather throughout the western hemisphere.
The red part of the strawberry isn't the fruit?
It's actually a modified part of the stem. The fruit is the little yellow thing sticking to the side.
The Blue Whale is the largest animal that ever lived?
S
pecimans have been reported as long as 120 feet, and many weigh close to 120 tons!
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