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The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.
The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together)
A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.
The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.
The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.
Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.
The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.
There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.
The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.
Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.
The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.
It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.