Sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Almost 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
Cows sank a fishing boat
A Japanese fishing boat sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a live cow from 30,000 feet.
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The ant, in comparison to its size, is one of the strongest animals in the world. A single ant can carry 50 times its own body weight and even work together in a group to move larger objects!
Before bees bodies evolved to be specialized pollen collectors, other
insects, like beetles, pollinated flowers in much smaller numbers. As
time went on, both flowers and bees evolved to get better at pollination
and gathering nectar.
For more than 150 years, Brazil has been the world's biggest coffee exporter. It provided around 80% of the world's coffee in the 1920s.
Ducks are omnivores. They feed on aquatic plants, small fish, insects,
worms, grubs and more. People often feed domesticated ducks bread.
Mating season of guinea fowls takes place at the end of the rainy season.
Donkeys hate rain. Their coat is not waterproof and staying out in rain for a long period actually damages their health.
Approximately 40,000 people are bitten by cats in the U.S. annually.
Ducks have featured as popular cartoon characters over the years, such
as Walt Disney's Donald Duck and Warner Brothers, Daffy Duck.
The capital and largest city in Jamaica is Kingston.