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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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1 |
The teeth of rodents never stop growing. |
Nature > Animals |
09/11/20 |
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2 |
One of the fastest biological processes is a jellyfish releasing venom through tiny harpoons in its tentacles. |
Nature > Animals |
03/11/20 |
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3 |
The scientific name of the giraffe is Giraffa Camelopardalis |
Nature > Animals |
10/06/17 |
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4 |
The name for creatures with two different eye colors is called Heterochromia |
Nature > Animals |
04/07/16 |
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5 |
The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes Vulpes. |
Nature > Animals |
07/27/15 |
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6 |
After the North American Feather-winged Beetle Nanosella fungi at 0.25mm, the Fairy Fly is 1/5 of a millimetre in length making it the smallest insect the world. |
Nature > Insects |
05/13/15 |
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7 |
While humans have 6 muscles in each ear, a cat has 32 muscles in each ear. |
Nature > Animals |
04/13/15 |
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8 |
Traveling 0.03 MPH, it would take 33.3 hours for a garden snail to travel a mile. |
Nature > Insects |
01/09/15 |
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9 |
Cairn Terriers were dogs renowned for hunting foxes and badgers in Scotland. |
Nature > Animals |
09/22/14 |
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10 |
In factory farms, the beaks of fowl birds are sometimes removed to prevent aggression. |
Nature > Animals |
04/25/14 |
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11 |
Laughing requires activity in five different areas of the brain. |
Nature |
12/15/13 |
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12 |
The average cat sleeps about 16 hours a day. |
Nature > Animals |
11/01/13 |
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13 |
Many hamsters blink one eye at a time. |
Nature > Animals |
09/20/13 |
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14 |
An egg white is called the albumen. |
Nature > Animals |
06/25/13 |
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15 |
The sky, when not clouded over, in seen as a blue color due to the scattering of light waves by the particles and gases in the air. In the morning, the sky looks pink or red because there are more short wavelengths being scattered than medium (Blue) waves. Likewise, at sunset there are quite a bit more long waves, which are red, being scattered. |
Nature |
04/07/13 |
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