Animals and Creatures
Bizarre Fact #451:
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There are 40,000 muscles and tendons in an elephant's trunk. This makes it very strong and flexible, allowing an elephant to pluck a delicate flower or lift a huge log. The trunk is used for touching, grasping, sucking, spraying, smelling, and striking. Bizarre Fact #452:
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There are about 40 different muscles in a birds wing. Bizarre Fact #453:
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There are about 5,000 species of coral known. Only about half of them build reefs. Bizarre Fact #454:
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There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth. Bizarre Fact #455:
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There are more than 300 references to sheep and lambs, more than any other animal, in the Bible's Old Testament, one of the earliest records of sheep. Bizarre Fact #456:
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There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos. Bizarre Fact #457:
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There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in it's body to kill six cats. Bizarre Fact #458:
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There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas. Bizarre Fact #459:
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To a human, one giant octopus looks virtually the same as any other of the same size and species. This explains why divers claim to have seen the same octopus occupy a den for ten or more years. But an octopus seldom lives longer than four years. Bizarre Fact #460:
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To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
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