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The outside of a catfish is covered in taste buds.
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Believe it or not, there are 920000 insects, 6000 reptiles, 6723 amphibians, and 4260 mammals on earth.
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^WOW..and Yewwww…yeww for the insects 
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yeah...eeeeeeeewwwwwww!!! :p
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The praying mantis head is uniquely positioned in its head. It is the only insect that can rotate its head to 360 degrees. Also known for its eyesight, it possesses 2 compound eyes and 3 simple eyes.**
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^creeeeeepyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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my last contribution for today:
**A young kangaroo (joey) remains in its mother’s pouch for about 9 months and suckles for nearly 1 - 1½ years. At birth, the young joey looks like a hairless, small worm with its size similar to a coffee bean.
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This is what sand looks like when it’s been hit by lightning, Called a fulgurite, this is made up of natural hollow glass tubes formed in quartzose sand, silica, or soil by lightning strikes (at 3,270 °F), which instantaneously melts silica on a conductive surface and fuses grains together over a period of around one second.
WOW!
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Lightening and sand reminded me of the movie Sweet Home Alabama :D
An atom is 99.9% empty space.....making everything in the universe mostly nothing
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^ I knowww…Love that movie…so cute 
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If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour
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^maybe we can go to Mars like that
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Beautiful Baby Starfish
Reproduction in starfish is external. Millions of eggs and sperm are ejected into the ocean where they mix and develop into larvae. The larvae are transparent and bilaterally-symmetrical. The tiny baby starfish are carried many miles on the ocean currents for the next couple of months as they develop, swimming in the sea and eating phytoplankton…Starfish may be common but they are also a fascinating creature with many interesting and unusual features. There is no back or front on a starfish and they don’t have to turn round to change direction. Starfish move around by using a complex hydraulic system involving hundreds of tiny tube feet instead of muscles. This hydraulic system is very effective, as you will find out if you try to pick one up from a rock it has attached itself to
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A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters) and had a massive 6.5-foot-long (2 m) skull with a bite four times as powerful as Tyrannosaurus rex.
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did you KNOW that only ONE specie of Bats actually bites and then licks blood?
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did you KNOW that only ONE specie of Bats actually bites and then licks blood?
which is only found in hollywood horror movies ;)
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Yup...and they are actually called Vampire Bats...
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It was in 1897 when Nobel prize-winner Ronald Ross found *Plasmodium*in the stomach of a mosquito that had bitten a malaria patient, and went on to show the parasite’s full life cycle.
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Peanut butter can be made into diamonds under extremely high pressure and temperature.
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Walking without swinging your arms ......requires the same effort as walking with a 20lb backpack!
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Peanut butter can be made into diamonds under extremely high pressure and temperature.
YUM!!!!