Trivia

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The ninth most intelligent animal is the pig.

St John's Lane in Rome, Italy, has a width of just 48 cm (19 in).

During the 1997 US Open final, British tennis player Greg Rusedski set a world record for the fastest serve, since surpassed, which registered a speed of 230 km/h (143 mph).

The male emperor penguin carries a single egg on its feet until it hatches, usually after 64 days.

Most people blink about 25 times a minute.

Electric eels are capable of emitting a discharge of 450 to 600 V - enough to knock out large animals and people.

Each year an estimated 170 000 square kilometres (66 000 square miles) of rainforest disappear, the equivalent of more than four times the area of Switzerland.

94 per cent of a jellyfish is water.

A lifetime's growth of beard would total a lenght of 154 km or 96 miles.

An ant can lift fifty times its own weight.