Fast Facts

April 6, 2006

An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second.

The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground.

Alaska is the state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work.

In the moist rainforests of South America, sloth move so slowly that algae are able to grow in their fur.

When opossums are “”playing possum,”” they are not “”playing,”” they’ve actually passed out from sheer terror

Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores, eating both animals and plants.

More than 2,000 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests of South America.

The forests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of plants.

Bats are essential for the pollination of many tropical foodstuffs such as bananas and mangoes.

On average, 61,000 people are traveling airborne over the United States at any given hour.

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.

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