- Antarctica has two species of flowering plants: Antarctic hair grass (Deschapsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis).
- Boston Cream Pie is the the official state dessert of Massachusetts. (Go figure.)
- Old trees can actually produce more carbon and methane than they absorb.[1]
- Currently, 400 species of sharks roam on the oceans of Earth.
- The fastest recorded swimming animal is the sailfish, which can swim up to 68 mph.
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