- Created in the bone marrow of your bones, red blood cells carry oxygen around the body.
- Your sense of smell is approximately 10,000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a television for three hours.
- Glass is separated into colors during recycling, because glass keeps its color after recycling.
- Ocean tides are caused by the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun acting on ocean water.
- Sharks are known to lay the biggest eggs in the world.
- Sound travels 4 times faster in water than it does through air.
- Cranberries can be tested for ripeness by bouncing them; if they are ripe, they should have a bouncing quality.
- Some types of bamboo can grow almost a metre in a day
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