-We get NESN!
-Fingernails grow about three times faster as toenails
-The places where bats hibernate are called “hibernacula”
-Sugoi means incredible in Japanese
-SPF 15 blocks 95% of the sun’s rays and SPF 30 blocks 97% of the sun’s rays
-There’s such a thing as funeral college.
-Hailstones are loaded with bacteria called P. syringae, which causes water to freeze at warmer than normal temperatures. The bacteria uses hail to damage the cell walls of plants so it can eat the inside.
-An aggregation of whale sharks is called an “afuera,” which means “outside” in Spanish.
-To attract females, male alligators use their lungs to produce an infrasound that causes the male to vibrate, creating waves in the water just above his back.
-Wild hamsters exist, but there are only 800 or so left in France.
-Sprouts hold bacteria in their seeds.
-Olives and acai are “drupes,” or pitted fruits.
-In some species of lemur, males and females have different fur colors.
-A “gore” is a plot of land (usually a triangle) that, thanks to surveying error, is not part of any town.
-When kiwis were first imported to the U.S., they were called Chinese gooseberries. They didn’t become popular until they were renamed “kiwis.”
-Alzheimer’s patients tend to be more active at night and sleep during the day, a phenomenon known as “sundown.”
-When worker ants (of the species Pachycondyla chinensis) come across food that’s too big for them to carry alone, they go back to their nest, pickup another worker ant in their jaws and carry it to the oversized prize. The ant drops its helper next to the food and the two ants carry it back to the nest together.
-There’s a fruit called “dragon fruit.”
-The Nova Scotia Association of Architects celebrates National Beaver Day on the last Friday in February.
-Blind people can use echolocation to "see."
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