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
