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Elephants can swim with their head completely under water and their trunk just above the water surface for breathing, similar to a snorkel.
Penguins can drink sea water. They have glands just above their eyes which remove salt from their blood and expel it out through their nose.
Almost half the population of Hong Kong lives in an apartment that is on the 15th floor or higher.
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Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world uses a 728 ton pendulum to counter the force of wind on the building. It is suspended from the 87th to the 92nd floor.
The 'hand' is a unit of measurement equal to 4 inches. It is commonly used to measure horses and ponies; a small pony is about 12 hh (hands high).
Rainforests are home to more than 30 million animal and plant species. That's half of the wildlife on Earth.
Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length, which totals a maximum of 7 inches. If humans could jump as far as a flea relative to their body size, some would be able to jump more than 1200 feet (360 meters) at a time.
Out of all creatures on Earth the Giant Squid has the largest eyes; one eye can be as big as 11 inches (28 cm) across.
Dust storms sometimes cover the planet of Mars for months at a time. The storms, powered by solar heating, can envelop the entire planet in just days.
The Popsicle was accidentally invented by Frank Eperson when he forgot his fruit soda outside with a stir stick in it during winter. He called it the Epsicle, which was later renamed to Popsicle.
Water is the most dense at 4 degrees Celsius (39.2 Fahrenheit); one liter at this temperature weighs almost exactly one Kilogram.
On May 22, 1987, Rick Hansen became the first person to circumnavigate the world in a wheel chair. His trip started in Vancouver Canada, took two years to complete and covered 24,901 miles (39,841 km).
Angel Falls, Venezuela is the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world. The water drops 3,212 ft (979 m).
Ice caps, glaciers and permanent snow store around 65% of all the fresh water on our planet.
The window and frame through which J.F.K was shot has been sold on eBay for three million dollars.
A pair of Napoleon's socks was sold for more than $4000 at an auction in London.
