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Strange and interesting facts
Really interesting facts you probably didn't know
There are approximately two hundred different aloe vera plants.
58% of U.S. newspapers are recycled. If all of our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 million trees each year!
Mt. Everest rises a few milimeters each year due to geological forces.
There are 10 basic clouds classified according to their height and appearance.
Americans consume more than 250 million pounds of garlic annually.
Indonesian and Asian culture invented what we know today as ketchup.
The largest cabbage dish ever made was on 19 December 2008 in the Macedonian city of Prilep, with 80,191 sarmas (cabbage rolls) weighing 544 kg (1,221 lbs).
7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
Costing €100,000 (around $140,000), the Yalos Diamond is the most expensive TV in the world.
The German word for Guinea pig is Meerschweinchen, literally “little sea pigs”.
A camel facts can drink about 200 liters of water in a day.
Gorillas possess 98% of the same nuclear DNA as humans.
Termites have been frasi around since the time of the dinosaurs!
Wild parrots do not imitate. Only pets will mimic people and noises they hear.
The blue whale’s heart that weighs 1,300 lbs and only beats about ten times per minute.
All scorpions “fluoresce” under ultraviolet light.
The ostrich traduceri tehnice is the biggest known bird on the whole wide world.
There are nearly 1,000 species of bats in the world.
Giraffes are the tallest animal on earth.
The oldest known alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) was 66 years old when she died in Australia in 1978.
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