Dumb Facts

If you take one pound of cob webs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.
Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider?
A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head before it starves to death.
Butterflies use their feet to taste things.
The female preying mantis initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Earthworms have 5 hearts.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like human jumping the length of about 7 football fields.
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”!
The average caterpillar has 16 legs.

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