Nature Trivia

  • The sweet scent that lingers after a rainfall is called 'Petrichor'.
  • A honeybee has 5 eyes.
  • There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  • Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
  • Strawberries are members of the rose family.
  • Dolphins don't breathe subconsciously, which is why they sleep with 50% of their brain active - to prevent drowning.
  • The water we drink is 3 billion years old.
  • Crabs have blue blood, while worms and leeches have green blood.
  • Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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