The Arctic Tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and back again every year.

The Angel waterfalls in Venezuela has a clear, free falling drop of 807 m (2468 ft).

The banana plant dies after the fruits are picked.

For every person on Earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.

A swan can have over 25,000 feathers.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

Anyone got any more?

Sirius is 8 light years from Earth.
and did you know that Sirius is actually 2 stars in a rather odd egg shaped orbit.

The moon is 2160 miles across.

the Mariana Trench is 11000m or 6.8 miles deep, more than enough to sink Mount everest which is only 8,848 m tall.....that would make a splash and a half.

The worlds tallest tree is called General sherman and is a Sequoia Gigantea.
Whereas the oldest trees are Bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) which can be proven to be 4789 years old but could be considerably older because of the way they grow.

Zygo

These are just some I found on a website(http://www.dysan.net/weird/show/646.html). I'm not really this smart

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length.
It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

~Legitimize

ooo those are all very good!

the hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards

a mako shark can jump roughly 20 ft into the air

The Loch Ness Monster is protected by Scottish Law

The longest holding record for hiccups is 68 years.

30 japanese hornets can destroy 30,000 honey bees within an hour

rats and giraffes can last longer without water than camels

camels have three eyelids

the creater of 7up was an albino, the red dot in the logo came from his red eyes

slugs have 4 noses

How could someone possibly have hiccups for 68 years? That seems a bit extreme. If it did happen, it would probably be the biggest shock of their life when they finally stopped happening.

~Legitimize

haha yeah they stopped for no reason in 1990, i think he died like a year after that.