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Adults have 206 bones in their bodies while children have 300 bones. The reasoning behind this is because some children's bones fuse together as they get older.
Products made of paper make up about 40% of our trash.
There are more TV sets in the US then there are people in the UK.
35% of the annual wood harvest in the world is used for paper products.
It is surprising to know that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp while Ben Franklin owned his own mill that made hemp paper. Also the US Declaration of Independence is written on hemp paper. Makes you wonder why we don't use more hemp today.
A tree can filter up to 60 pounds of air pollutants every year.
In America, Americans throw away about 25 billion Styrofoam cups.
The hardness of ice is close to the same as the hardness of concrete.
Most lipsticks partially contain fish scales.
500,000 trees are wasted every Sunday because Americans waste 90% of recyclable newspapers.
Mr. Ernest Vincent Wright once wrote a book with over 50,000 words in it which never contained the letter "E".
900 million trees are cut down every year to provide raw materials for Americans to make pulp and paper.
Ants are the busiest insect out there. They should be since Ants never sleep.
There are 84,600 seconds in one day.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
Bats always fly to the left when exiting a cave.
97% of the worlds water supply is ocean. 2% of the water is frozen, leaving us with only 1 % that is useable.
People should know that tipping in a restaurant in Iceland is considered to be an insult.
When you sneeze it travels out of you at 100 m.p.h..
Donald Duck's cartoons, comics etc., were banned from Finland because he dosen't wear pants.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Can you believe that some rocks can float? This can happen when a volcanic eruption occurs. The reason this can happens is due to violent separation of gas from the lava it produces a "frothy" rock called pumice, which is loaded with gas bubbles therefore some of it can float.
During the Ice Age, glaciers covered 32 % of the land but now glaciers only cover about 10% of the Earth's land.
Polar bears today are thinner and less healthy than they were 20 years ago.
If just 25% of US families used 10 less plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 Billion bags a year. That is amazing!
In America there are about 140 million cars and they are estimated to travel about 4 billion miles a day. The Department of Transportation figures to do this these cars will use about 200 million gallons of gas.
Most offices are starting to recycle and use recycled paper and that is good since recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
Diapers take 500 years to decompose and they actually take up about 1% of US landfills.
The amount of energy saved by recycling ONE aluminum can could operate your TV for about 3 hours and is also the same as about a half of can of gasoline.

Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.
The world's human population is expected to triple by the year 2100.
Ozone is found all over the earth, including ground level, but mostly is found in a band called the ozone layer that is about 15-40kms about the Earth's surface. The ozone is essential for life. Before the ozone layer formed, roughly a billion years ago, the only life on Earth was at the bottom of the ocean. Not sure if I want to live there!
Every household produces about one tonne of garbage per year and most of that garbage is buried in landfill sites instead of being recycled.
Some people that are living in major cities are suffering from lung diseases due to the amount of pollution in the air; this pollution is so toxic that it is causing some buildings to deteriorate.
Rainforests use to cover 15% of the Earth's land. Today, because of humans, they now only cover around 7%; the total area has decreased from 1500 million hectares to less than 800 million hectares. Statistics figure that one hectare of rainforest is destroyed every 2 seconds, with that in mind, this means that the rainforest will be completely destroyed in 40 years.
Every day, 50 to 100 different species of plants and animals become extinct because humans have changed their habitat causing them to be destroyed.
They are now making fibre optics from glass and these are replacing the copper cables throughout the world.
If we all could replace every 75 watt light bulb with energy efficient bulbs we could prevent 1 tonne of carbon dioxide.
Americans use 50 million tons of paper each year which takes more than 850 million trees to make that much paper.
Pesticides are suspected to have over 100 ingredients that cause birth defects, cancer and gene mutations. Scary thought!
When you think about grass and leaves you wouldn't think that they account for 75 % of solid waste in fall alone. We throw away 24 million tonnes of it each year.
The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. It tips the scales at a whopping 170 tons - that's the same as about 22 elephants. Its heart is the size of a small car and its largest blood vessels are wide enough for an adult to swim through without much difficulty.
The largest land animal in the world is the African Bull Elephant. It weighs about 6,000 kilograms, which is roughly the same as 60 (200lb) humans.
Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.
Approximately 50 percent of all orangutans have fractured bones, a result of falling off of trees on a regular basis.
Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks: seven.
All clams are born as males. A clam can change to become a female, but only once, and the change is irreversible.
The brain of a roach is located inside of its body. If a roach loses its head, it can live up to nine days. A decapitated roach dies not because it cannot think, but because it cannot eat.
The koala does not need to drink liquids; it can obtain all of its liquids from eucalyptus leaves which are 50 percent water.
African elephants produce approximately 100 kilograms of manure per day. Most of this manure is eaten up by beetles.
A bird called the great tit produces its waste in enclosed sacs that it later removes from its nest. The average great tit removes approximately 500 sacs of manure from its nest each week.
Frogs cannot vomit. Whenever a frog absolutely has to vomit, it vomits its entire stomach.
The hummingbird flaps its wings 55 to 75 times per second. In order to fuel this activity, it eats approximately twice its weight in nectar every day.
When hunting in packs, wolves use different howls to communicate with one another. Because echoes can distort communication, a wolf's howl does not produce an echo, even when emitted in a valley surrounded by mountains.
The monarch butterfly can detect its lover's scent eight kilometers away.
The water spider lives underwater but breathes air by using its web to create an underwater sac that stores air bubbles.
The whitetail deer causes more harm to humans than any other animals do because of the number of traffic accidents that they are involved in.
On average, sharks kill 10 humans every year. Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.