Did you know?
Male Cicadas are the ones that make all the noise. They do so by vibrating a pair of plates in the abdomen.

What is the difference between mist and fog?
Visibility. In a fog you can see less than a kilometre; in a mist you can see more than a kilometre.

Did you know?
The Great Barrier Reef is over 2000 Kilometres long

What is considered to be the world’s most venomous animal?
Box jellyfish

Did you know?
The North Atlantic gets 2.5cm wider every year.

Did you know?
There are 3000 species of earthworms living on the planet.

True or false? There are more bacteria in your armpit than there are people in Australia.
True.

Did you know?
Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminium can to run a TV set for three hours.

What types of frequencies are too high to be heard by humans?
Ultrasonic.

Did you know?
Our nails are made from keratin, the same material that makes up turtle shells.

Where is digested food absorbed into the bloodstream?
The small intestine.

True or false? The electron is the smallest unit of matter.
False. It has been discovered that matter is made up of smaller units called quarks and leptons and possibly other things yet to be discovered.

What makes blood the colour red?
The binding of oxygen to the protein haemoglobin.

Did you know?
It takes 8 minutes and 17 seconds for light to travel from the Suns’ surface.

Did you know?
The kidneys filter about 1700 litres of blood every day.

What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator, commonly known as a web address.

How many bones are there in the neck of a giraffe?
Seven. The same as a human.

Did you know?
Albert Einstein’s brain has been stored in the United States since he died in 1955.

How many camels currently live in central Australia?
More than a million camels, the largest wild herd on Earth, are ravaging a vast area of 3.3 million square kilometres in central Australia.

Did you know?
Giraffes only sleep in 20 minute spurts and they don’t lie down.

Did you know?
Flies flap their wings 200 times per second which makes their buzz sound.

Did you know?
Humans produce about 1 litre of saliva per day. A cow will produce about 60 litres per day.