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1. In England, pigeon poop is property of the Crown.

This is because pigeon poop could be used to make gunpowder. Because of this, King George I declared all pigeon poop to be property of the Crown in the 18th Century.

2. The Eiffel Tower “grows” in the summer.

Due to the heat expansion of the tower’s iron in the summer sun, the Eiffel Tower’s height can grow by up to 6 inches!

3. Jellyfish are 95% water.

Not surprising, given that they have no brain, no blood and no heart! The other 5% is made up of what little solid mass jellyfish possess.

4. Woodpeckers eat brains when they get too hungry.

Nope, not zombie woodpeckers, just normal woodpeckers. If they’ve gone too long without food, they will pin down other birds and peck at the back of their heads until they crack through their skulls and then eat their brains. Freaky.

5. Camels don’t actually store water in their humps.

It’s one of those age-old myths that you hear as a kid and take as fact, but it’s not true I’m afraid! Their lovely camel humps are actually used to store fat.

6. Snakes can burp fire.

For this to happen, a decomposing animal a snake has eaten has to burst whilst being digested, releasing methane and hydrogen into the snake’s stomach. All that’s needed for the snake to fire up is a spark.

7. Three types of Australian birds deliberately spread wildfires.

Why would they do that? Black kites, whistling kites and brown falcons all purposefully aid the spread of wildfires by picking up and dropping flaming sticks just so the fire will flush out their prey and make it easier for them to catch.

8. Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest!

Bees can fly at levels up to 29,525 feet above sea level – higher than the planet’s tallest Mountain!

9. The smallest dinosaur ever discovered is only 16 inches long.

Discovered in China, the Microraptor is one of the most recent dinosaur discoveries and is the smallest ever found. Most of the specimens that have been found have also been fully grown, so the baby Microraptors would have been even smaller!

10. There was a type of Pterodactyl with a bigger wingspan than a fighter jet.

The remarkable beast’s remains were dug up in Romania. Standing as tall as a giraffe, it’s believed the flying reptile would have weighed about half a ton. With a wingspan of 39 foot, it would have been bigger than the roughly 33-foot wingspan of an F16 fighter jet.

11. In China, the police use geese as sentries.

In many parts of rural China, police have opted to use geese as police animals as they are highly alert and capable of making lots of noise. Also “police geese” sounds cooler than “police dogs”.

12. 25% of all mammal species on Earth are bats.

There are a whopping 1,200 different types of bat! They range in size from a Bumblebee Bat – the world’s smallest mammal – all the way up to the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Bat which has a huge wingspan of almost 6 foot!

13. Oranges were originally green.

The first oranges ever imported from to the West were from Southeast Asia and were tangerine-pomelo hybrids that were green in color. In fact, oranges grown in warmer parts of the world such as Vietnam and Thailand stay green throughout their lifetime.

14. Armadillos have shells so hard they can deflect a bullet.

One poor Texan man learned this the hard way when he shot at an armadillo only to have the bullet ricochet off the indestructible beast, and back at him into his jaw! The man was airlifted to hospital. Amazingly, the armadillo just walked off unscathed.