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January 17, 2008 on 11:16 pm | In Daily fun and amusing facts |- The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.
- The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
- The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.
- The dot that appears over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
- The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
- The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year.
- The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion.
- The desert tortoise can live without having to drink any water. It extracts the water it needs from the vegetation it eats.
- The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin.
- The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres.
- The deepest cave in the world is the “Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht” cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep.
- The decomposition point of Olive Oil is 220 degrees Celsius.
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