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Interesting and Amazing Facts - 7


After eating all those different foods, you'll need a toothbrush. Did you know that people have been cleaning their teeth since the first tribes lived in Africa and Australia? It was the Chinese who invented the bristle brush toothbrush.

A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it !! 

The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill 

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

The mouse is the most common mammal in the US. 

The elephant is the largest animal on land. But it is much smaller than the blue whale.

The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 300kg (660 lbs) and can eat 27,2 kg (60 lb) of meat at one mealtime.

Did you know moths are not really attracted to light? Moths fly towards the blackest point which is behind the light. 

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES

The rhinoceros's horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernails which is called keratin. It also contains something called gelatin.

The rhino is a primitive-looking animal. They have looked the same for thousands of years. There are two species of rhino: the white (or square-lipped rhino) and the black (or hooked-lipped rhino). The black rhino has three toes on each foot. Both the black and white rhino have two horns.

Ancients Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by giants fighting underneath the ground. The Ancient Japanese thought there was a giant spider living under the earth, and each time it moved, it caused the earth to quake

There are over 900 different types of bats and they can all fly. The Vampire bat has less teeth than the other bats because it doesn't chew its food. It lives on the blood of mammals. Bats do not need to see when they fly, they use sound to help them figure out where they are going. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes.  

Hundreds of years ago, rockets were invented in China. The first rockets were shaped like arrows and they were not very powerful. The power of early rockets came from gunpowder

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