READING AND WRITING SKILLS: Curious Facts

Write down some curios fact you know about.
Which one surprised you the most?

Curious Facts that Might Surprise You


ANIMALS

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
The giraffes can clean their own ears with their tongues
The monkeys and the dolphins, together with the human, are the only animals which can recognize themselves in front of a mirror.
The only animal which fears and don’t fight with the king of the jungle is…the elephant.
The brain of an ostrich is smaller than his own eye.

All the ants are more aggressive in the morning when they wake up.

THE HUMAN BEING

To keep you awake, it is better to eat an apple than to drink coffee.
We sleep better in the night if we laugh in the day.
It´s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
The right-handed live approx. eleven years more than the left-handed.
The nails from the hand grow up 5 times faster than the ones from the feet.
Kissing every day cleans your teeth.

NATURE

In the Oceans there is enough salt to cover all the continents.
The rivers represents 0,0001% of all the water in the earth.
There is no living specimen that doesn´t contains water. A lettuce contains 94% of water, the human 60% to 70%, and the trees 55%.
The Colorado Grand Canyon contains rocks that were formed 2.000 million years ago.
In the rain season, the Victoria falls in central Africa spill 300.000 tons of water in 1 minute.
Only 2.8% of the earth´s water is drinkable, 6% is liquid, and 90% is ice.

OTHERS

The word “mile” comes from the latin “mille passum”, which means 1.000 steps.
The blue toothbrush is the most used in all the world, more than any other color.
The vanilla ice cream is the most sell in all the world.
If you look straight into the eye of the most aggressive dog you can find, he won´t attack you, unless it is ordered.


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