Fascinating facts

Hey all, 

It's Friday Week 9 and I truly have nothing earthshattering to throw at you today!  So my offering is a list of 'fascinating facts' to catch your attention and have you say 'Really?'  (I haven't even gone through and checked the validity of them - how's that for lazy?)  I'll let you and your classes do that! 

Fascinating Facts

 There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and colour of chocolate.

 Rats can survive without water longer than camels.

 The elephant is the only animal that has been taught to stand on its head.

During its entire lifetime a house fly never travels more than a few hundred feet from the place where it was born.

 It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.

 The starfish has an eye on the end of each arm.

 A zebra's stripes are as individual as human fingerprints. No two zebras are striped alike.

 A fish's heart has two chambers.

 Any whole number decreased by the sum of its digits will leave a remainder that can be divided by 9.

 You can tell a fish's age by counting the rings on its scales in the same way that you can estimate the age of a tree by counting the rings in the trunk.

 It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.

 The rarest disease in the world, called Kuru, or laughing sickness, affects only the cannibals of New Guinea and is believed to be caused by eating human brains.

 The smallest known fish is the Pandaka Pygmea, about the size of an ant and almost transparent.

 Your brain will stop growing in size when you are about 15 years old.

 A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

 Nearly half the people on the earth live in only one thirtieth of the total land area.

 One square mile of land contains more insects than the total number of human beings on earth.

Have an great weekend - and carry on being awesome!  Not long to go to school break!