Now you Know

The Arctic Tern, which is a small bird, can fly a round trip from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird

5317. Animal Facts

A cockroach can withstand more than 120 times the force of the Earth's gravity – an astronaut passes out at 12 times the pressure of gravity.

5318. Fact

Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances.

5319. Fact

Astronauts grow taller in space.

5320. Fact

Carob trees do not produce fruit until they are seventy years old.

5321. Fact

The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933

5322. Fact

You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.

5323. Fact

Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.

5324. Fact

At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour

5325. Fact

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

5326. Fact

The state flower of Texas is the Bluebonnet; the state tree is a pecan.

5327. Fact

¥ Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.

5328. Fact

The South Pole is covered with 8,850 feet of solid ice.

5329. Fact

A chicken is 75% water