Amazing Growth Facts
It is one of the wonders of nature that all living things become bigger in size.
- A tiny acorn can grow into a very big tree.
- The normal newborn baby is 50 centimeters long and weighs 3.4 kilograms.When baby grow up he or she increases to 3 times that length and 18 times that weight.
- Bamboo tree can grow 90 centimeters in one day.
- Pacific giant Keip can grow as much as 45 centimeters in one day.
- An ant can lift more than 100 times its weight.
- A baby kangaroo is the size and weight of a paper clip (1gram). An adult kangaroo is 30,000 times heavier (30 kilograms).
-The egg of a golden eagle and the egg of a Nile crocodile are both 8 centimeters long.
- Clams are between the longest living and slowest growing of all animals.It takes 100 years to grow 8 millimeters ,that's as big as your fingernail.
- Do you ever wonder where the dust in your home comes from ? Much of it is made of the 50,000 or so microscopic flakes of skin that fall off of you every minute.
- In the average human life of 70 years, a heart pumps blood around the body to fill fuel tanks of 700 jumbo jets.
- the food that we eat in our lifetime is weight as 6 elephants!
- A horse's intestines are 27 meters long. A human's intestines are about 7,5 meters long. Luckily,they are curled up isside the body.
Amjad Shammas.
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