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Termites' eating noise is twice as fast as listening to heavy metallic music.

A cow gives nearly 2, 00, 000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Britain has at least one amateur or professional botanist for every 1500 species of plants.

When the glass breaks, the crack travels at around 3000 miles an hour.

A Dromedary camel has one hump and a Bactrian camel two humps. The humps are used as fat storage. An undernourished camel will not have a hump.

Sea gulls are remarkable long distance flying machines, capable of covering 700 miles in a day at a speed of up to 50 miles an hour.

Inside the Earth, it gets 3°C hotter every 100 m deep down.

Hermit crabs collect some plants with thorns and put them on top of their shells to protect themselves from octopuses and other enemies.

The world's noisiest land animals are the howler monkeys. When the male monkeys call, their gibbering can be heard 16 km away.

Bamboo can grow up to 36 inches in a day.