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With construction of a Titanic replica well underway in China, we've unearthed a few interesting facts about the original. 1. The RMS Titanic was the world’s largest passenger ship when it entered service, measuring 269 metres (882 feet) in length, and the largest man-made moving object on...

Jellyfish and jelly-like sea creatures come in an immensely diverse range of forms. Animals that are typically called jellyfish belong to the phylum Cnidaria, which includes over 10,000 species. However, some jelly-like animals, like the comb jelly, belong to the phylum Ctenophora. This...

Albino animals are extremely rare and unusual. They have all the characteristics of others of their species except they are all white in color. Not one inch of their natural coloring comes through as their bodies are unable to produce a pigment known as melanin. Melanin creates the normal...

Whales belong to the order cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. Whales are divided into two suborders: baleen and toothed whales. Baleen whales have a comb-like fringe, called a baleen, on the upper jaw, which is used to filter plankton, as well as small fish and crustaceans...

Where do Ligers Come From? Irresponsible breeders is the short answer. A liger is the result of breeding a male lion to a tigress. A tigon is the result of breeding a male tiger to a lioness. Since lions and tigers do not exist in the same areas, this is not something that happens in the wild...

Snakes are carnivores (meat eaters). Snakes don’t have eyelids. Snakes can’t bite food so have to swallow it whole. Snakes have flexible jaws which allow them to eat prey bigger than their head! Snakes are found on every continent of the world except Antarctica. Snakes have internal...

• Elephants are the largest land animals in the world. • The largest elephant on record was an ãdül† male African elephant. It weighed about 24,000 pounds and was 13 feet tall at the shoulder! • Elephants can live to be over 70 years old. • Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant. • The...

Dogs sleep more than people do, Coren told Live Science, and they have a particular penchant for catnaps. But the structure of their sleep looks remarkably human: Like humans, dogs cycle through stages of wakefulness, rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and non-rapid-eye-movement sleep. Scientists...

The tiger is the largest cat species, most recognizable for its pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar, and snow leopard. Conservation status: Endangered (Population...

Some amazing facts about anime and manga I found on the INTERNET... So let's start... #1 Anime is, in fact, an abbreviated pronunciation of Animation in Japan. It began in 1917 by Japanese artists : Shimokawa Oten, Jun'ichi Kouchi and Seitaro Kitayama. #2 Anime is not synonymous with...

M Jaaske/Shutterstock.com By Juliana Weiss-Roessler Do you think you know everything about our canine companions? Think again! Check out these 10 surprising facts about dogs. Your dog is as smart as a 2-year-old toddler. There’s a reason your tot and your pup get along so well: they speak...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, there's a scorching ball of iron surrounded by an ocean of boiling hot liquid metal. THE EARTH'S CORE. It's as toasty as the surface of the Sun, with enough heat to brew more than a trillion cups of coffee per hour. That's over a hundred coffees for every single...

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and due to its proximity it is not easily seen except during twilight. For every two orbits of the Sun, Mercury completes three rotations about its axis and up until 1965 it was thought that the same side of Mercury constantly faced the Sun. Thirteen...

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the most distant that can be seen with the ***** eye. Saturn is the second largest planet and is best known for its fabulous ring system that was first observed in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas giant and is...

The Sun (or Sol), is the star at the centre of our solar system and is responsible for the Earth’s climate and weather. The Sun is an almost perfect sphere with a difference of just 10km in diameter between the poles and the equator. The average radius of the Sun is 695,508 km (109.2 x that of...

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is the largest of the terrestrial planets. The Earth is the only planet in our solar system not to be named after a Greek or Roman deity. The Earth was formed approximately 4.54 billion years ago and is the only known planet to support life. Earth...

(Oconnell, 2017) 1. Pugs are an ancient breed. (Yes! It`s totally and definitely true) 2. They were also treated like royalty. (Always) 3. A group of pugs is called a grumble. (Tawag sa amin yan ng mga kapatid ko hehe) 4. The breed probably gets its name from a monkey. (Yes, mukha kong unggoy)...

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Margaret Kerry was the live action model for Walt Disney's Tinkerbell.

Despite mummies being linked with Egypt (almost exclusively), a South American tribe named Chinchorro was the first to make mummies. According to recent archaeological evidence, the oldest Chinchorro mummies date back about seven thousand years, twice as old as the first Egyptian ones. crdts:TaF