95% of all the animal species on the earth are insects. Submitted by: me knows me facts, Canada | The human brain is 75% water. Submitted by: EMO - Calais, Maine, United States |
If you shrunk a car to the size of a roach, the roach could outrun the car. Roaches can run about 200 scale miles per hour. Submitted by: Hades - Milledgeville, Georgia, United States | A lobster has a sense of smell about 1000 times keener than a human. Submitted by: Hades - Milledgeville, Georgia, United States |
95% of all animals are invertebrates (without a backbone or spinal column). Submitted by: damandude - Missouri, United States | Frogs eat their skin after they shed it. Submitted by: Wild Child - Driggs, United States |
Porcupines float in water. | A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average. |
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. | The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year. |
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. | If a person or an animal is born colorblind, they instantly have excellent night vision. Submitted by: FlamegiantX - Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States |
Elephants are the only land animal that can't jump. Submitted by: Ron Griffin | A teaspoonful of soil may contain 100 million bacteria. |
Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton. | You can figure out which way is south if you are near a tree stump. The growth rings are wider on the south side. |
Eighty-five percent of all the plants and animals live in the sea. | Babies are born far sighted - their eyes start to focus properly between 3 to 6 months of age. |
Men have more blood in their circulatory system than women and more red blood cells. | Your blood vessels, if laid end to end, would encircle the globe twice over. |
Some species of Bamboo can grow at the rate of 1 ? metres in 24 hours. | A single bacteria cell, given all the food it needs, could divide into a ball of cells the size of the Earth in 24 hours. |
The DNA in a single human cell is 37 metres long when unravelled. | DNA unravels at 7000 RPM (revolutions per minute). |
Every four days the worlds population increases by one million people. | If all major forms of cardiovascular disease were eliminated, human life expectance would increase by 9.78 years. |
The right lung takes in more air than the left. | Women blink nearly twice as much as men. |
The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee. | The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight. |
20/20 vision means the eye can see normally at 20 feet. 20/15 is better; the eye can see at 20 feet what another eye sees at 15 feet. | Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails. |
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents. | Ants do not sleep. |
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die. | The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime |
A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head. | Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds. |
Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin | Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body. |
A mosquito has 47 teeth. | Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel. |
Lobsters have blue blood. | The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds. |
Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds. | Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper. |
A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth. | The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark. |
The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant. | A starfish can turn its stomach inside out. |
