
Believe or Not
???......
1. Did you
know that according to aerodynamics it should be impossible for bees to
fly
because their bodies are not in proportion to their wing span. However
somehow they do.
2. The leaf-cutting
ant can lift more than 50 times it's own weight.
3. The Roman
Statesman Marcus Cato introduced composting as a way to build soil fertility
throughout the Roman Empire more than 2,000 years ago.
4. Composing
can take as little as one month or as long as 12-14 months.
5. A Bat can
eat up to 600 insects an hour and will consume up to 2000 insects at night.
6. The caterpillar
has more than 2,000 muscles.
7. Daddy-
longlegs are not spiders and do not bite.
8. Butterflies
cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
9. Cockroaches
have lived on the Earth for 250 million years without changing in any way
whatsoever.
10. If humans could jump
like fleas, they'd be able to leap over a 100 story building in a single
bound.
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