Did you know that an elephant spends about 16 hours eating every day!?
An Elephant can consume about 136 kilograms of food daily and that is like 2400 hamburgers and 160 huge glasses of milkshake!

How many microbes does a fly have on its body?
Well, One scientist found around 6.600.000 microbes on a single hair from the body of a fly ...
It seems scientists have discovered that a fly could carry up to 50.000.000 microbes on its entire body!
But don't forget that on the inside of the fly, there are even more ... !!!

The human heart pumps about 5 liters of blood every five minutes.
Thus, it pumps about 7200 liter of blood everyday, through 100.000 heart beats!
So, a 75 year-old person's heart would have already made 3 billion heart beats & pumped about 200 million liters of blood! Wow!

Did you know that the earth weighs about 5.974.000.000.000.000.000.000 Tons?
Not only does it weigh so much, but every day the earth's weight increases by 10 tons because of cosmic dust falling on it from space !!!

Believe it or not ... but in 50 years ocean seafood will be virtually instinct!
At current rates of overfishing & pollution that's exactly what will happen.

By the year 2040, global warming will have caused the Arctic ocean to be mostly water -instead of icebergs- in the summer!

According to the 2004 Global Amphibian Assessment compiled by Conservation International and partners , of the 5.700 species of frogs, toads and salamanders, almost a third is threatened and 168 have become extinct, most in just the past 20 years. And the reason is habitat loss and strange deadly fungus attacks.

A new planet with three suns in its sky has been found 194 light-years away from Earth.
Its type is named Tatooine after the dual-sunned planet in the film Star Wars.

90% of American homes eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
50% eat turkey on Christmas.
Mature turkeys have 3,500 or so feathers.
Farm raised turkeys cannot fly.

Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour.
Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.

The H5N1 bird-flu virus killing poultry and people in Asia could cause the next global pandemic if it gains the ability to spread quickly from person to person. Estimated deaths in such a pandemic range from 7.4 million to an apocalyptic 180 million to 360 million!

The estimated world population of the Cheetah in 1900 was 1000,000. Today that figure stands at between 9,000 and 12,000.

* In 1976 a mystery cat in Hong Kong killed more than 20 dogs. According to local people it was about 4 feet long, and black or gray in color. It was never caught.

* The smallest recorded cat is only 19 cm long. Tinker Toy is a blue point Himalayan-Persian, and is owned by Katrina and Scott Forbes of the USA.

The world's warmest temperature was recorded as 57.8 C at El Azizia, Libya, on 13 Sep 1922. Death Valley is close behind, at 56.7 C, recorded on 10 Jul 1913.

There are more than 10,000 varieties of tomatoes.

About 22% of the earth's original forest coverage remains. Western Europe has lost 98% or so of its primary forests, Asia 94%; Africa 92%, Oceania 78%, North America 66% and South America 54%. Approximately 45% of the world's tropical forests originally covering 1.4 billion hectares have disappeared in the last few decades.