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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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