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As babies we have 350 bones. They fuse into 206 as we grow up.

With no air, water, or volcanic activity to erode them, the footprints and tracks left on the moon by astronauts will remain as they are for 100 million years.

In good light, the human eye can distinguish 10 million different colors.

Gravity has an effect on the passage of time. Time runs more quickly at the top of a mountain, where gravity is weaker, than at sea level.

There is more gold dissolved in seawater than there is on land.

A chameleon's eyes can move independently. One eye can look up while the other looks down.

The amount of salt in the world's oceans and seas would cover Europe to a depth of three miles.

A bee's eyes can detect ultraviolet light. A flower looks bright to a bee because the petals reflect a lot of ultraviolet.

In times of drought, the African lungfish buries itself in mud. It can survive for at least three years by digesting its own muscles.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

The human body contains enough carbon to fill 9,000 pencils.

Three Earths could fit inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

Spiders have noses on their feet.

The sun's surface is made up of millions of upsurging granules. A granule is about the size of France.

The leaves of the giant water lily can grow up to eight feet across and can support the weight of a young child.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

Fish in very cold waters have special "anti-freeze" chemicals in their bodies.

Pink snow has fallen on the European Alps, caused by seasonal winds from the Sahara desert picking up red sand.

Each snowflake is flat with six sides.

The Bishop pine tree can reproduce only after a forest fire. It needs the heat of the fire to crack open its cones.

Fish have no eyelids. They can't blink, wink or close their eyes to sleep.

The fastest-moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.

Pearls melt in vinegar.

Venus rotates backwards.