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More than 1.6 million trees are cut down every day to fuel the tobacco industry. Burning wood is used to dry the tobacco leaves. On average, one tree is cut down for every 300 cigarettes.
Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan is built on a 2.5 mile long, 100 foot tall artificial island. One million workers and 80 ships worked for three years to make the island.
Grass is the most successful plant in the world covering more than 25% of land on Earth. It feeds more wild life than any other plant.
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In Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, there are no light switches or water taps. Light and water are motion activated, helping to cut their usage in half.
Females of the Awa tribe in Brazilian jungle breast feed orphaned monkeys found in the jungle. Once big enough, they are released in the wild.
Monarch butterflies migrate every winter by flying more than 2500 miles, from Canada's side of Lake Huron, all the way down to Mexico. How they navigate is still an unsolved mystery.
A hundred years ago, the world population was 1.5 billion. Today it is more than 7 billion.
Atlantic Giant pumpkins are grown in the Canadian city of Windsor, Nova Scotia. Enthusiast paddlers carve boats out of the giant pumpkins and participate every year in the world biggest pumpkin race.
The Imperial penguin in Antarctica breed in the harshest weather conditions on earth, enduring four months of -94 °Fahrenheit and 90 mile and hour winds.
Humpback whale calves can drink up to 500 liters of milk in just one day.
Living more than 4500 years, the Bristlecone pine tree is the longest living tree on Earth. Scientists have used their rings to reconstruct climate data going back to the year 9,000 B.C.
Some Reindeer travel further than any other animal on Earth. They can travel more than 60,000 miles in their lifetime; that's more than twice the distance around the world.
The city of Churchill in Manitoba, Canda, uses helicopters and armed volunteers to surround the city and defend it from Polar bears during Halloween trick or treat night. Noise markers, rubber bullets and even bear traps are used.
In Laguna, Brazil, dolphins help fishermen to catch fish. The dolphins round up the fish and signal the fishermen to cast their nets. More than 200 families rely on the daily catch.
The first ship to send out an SOS signal is the Cunard liner Slavonia, having sent the signal on June 10th, 1909. It is a myth that the RMS Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS distress signal.
The planet Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love. It is the brightest planet in the night sky and the only planet to be named after a female.
