True, there are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
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The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old.
The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old.
The biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan.
The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Goodness! That is a long word!
This 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, who coined the term how we know it in 2000.
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The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old.
While the median age a dog reaches tends to be about 10-15 years, one Australian cattle dog, ‘Bluey’, survived to the ripe old age of 29.5.
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The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old.
Creme Puff was the oldest cat to ever live.
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The biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan.
It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea.
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I hope you enjoyed these five facts - did you know any of them?
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Do please share your thoughts in the comments.
All the best Jan
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