| All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise |
| A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes |
| A snail can sleep for 3 years |
| The oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert. |
| A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail |
| A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve |
| A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body |
| Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves |
| Ants don't sleep |
| It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web |