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Many plants and animals are capable of producing visible light.

The scientific term for this phenomenon is


bioluminescence.
Sperm Whales have the heaviest brain of any living animal.
The average Sperm Whale's brain weighs more than 20 pounds which is about 4 times heavier than the
average human brain.
A Naked Tiger Still Has Stripes
If a tiger loses all his hair, hell still be striped. Tiger stripes are like fingerprints, each individual cats
markings are unique. And theyre not just hair, the stripes are in their skin. Seems to be a thing with cats,
since your house cats fur markings are also skin deep!
Elephant Teeth
Most mammals have a set of baby teeth that eventually fall out and are replaced by adult teeth, which
they keep for their entire lives. Elephants are different, however. They go through six sets of large, brick-
like teeth that grow in at the back of their mouths and slowly move to the front as they are worn down.
The teeth then fall out and are replaced by fresh ones.
Consequently, elephants have no use for dentists, and have been known to laugh openly when they
encounter dental hygienists on safari. There is evidence of elephants in the wild eating five hundred
pounds of coconut macaroons in one day, without flossing.
Each set of elephant teeth that grows in is larger than the last. The final teeth are over eight inches long
(21 cm) from front to back and weigh more than eight pounds (4 kg).
When an elephant's final set of teeth falls out, the elephant slowly dies of malnutrition or starvation. This
is a pretty poorly designed animal, if you ask me.
Old elephants will seek out wet, marshy areas where the plants are softer, so they can more easily eat
them. However, in the end, this doesn't really help and they die anyway, much to the amusement of
vacationing dental hygienists.
Lake Baikal (Baikal) in Siberia, Russia is the deepest lake in the world measuring 1620m
deep at its deepest point. This makes it not only deep but also the oldest lake in the
world estimated to be around 25 million years old. At over 636 kilometers long and 80
kilometers wide this fresh water lake holds over 20 percent of all the fresh water in the
world and is second in size only to the Caspian Sea (the caspian is called a sea but is
technically a lake).
To put things into perspective the lake is so big that if all the rivers in the world flowed
into its basin it would take almost 1 year to fill. We all know Siberia isnt the warmest
of places so you can imagine what a phenomenal site it is when in the winter months
the lake freezes over holding ice up to 115 meters thick. Now thats a lot of ice!

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