This weeks did you know:
Did you know that Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population of the world? Our Holy Land is full of some very educated people!
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Here’s an interesting fact about South Africa! Did you know that the world is divided into six floral kingdoms. All these kingdoms encompass several countries, and in some cases, several continents. South Africa, which has a floral kingdom wholly contained within the country, is the one exception. The Cape Floral Kingdom has 9,600 plant species, 70% of which are not found anywhere else in the world! What at diverse world our Creator made for us!
Did you know that the avergae person falls asleep within seven minutes? How interesting!
Did you know that the average person has over 4, 160 dreams a year? There sure is a lot going on while we sleep! What a fascinating world our Creator made for us!
Did you know that blue whales are so big that just their tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant! A whole blue whale can weigh more than 30 adult elephants! Whales communicate by making high pitched sounds. Before humans started making noises in the oceans these sounds could travel from one side of the ocean to the other! Hashem certainly created a fascinating, fantastic world for us to live in!
The Bombardier beetle has an amazing ability. When threatened by a creature that wants to eat it the Bombardier beetle quickly mixes special chemicals inside its belly which explode out of a kind of pipe at the back of its body shooting boiling hot chemicals at the attacker. Hashem certainly created a fascinating, fantastic world for us to live in!
Did you know that some species of bamboo grow so fast you can almost see them grow! In Japan one species grows over a meter each day. That means that in just two days it will have grown much taller than the average child will grow in 10 years! Our Creator certainly created a fascinating, fantastic world for us to live in!
Did you know that stars are not scattered throughout space but rather gathered into galaxies? Astronomers estimate that there are about 100 thousand millions stars in the Milky Way alone. Outside that, there are millions upon millions of other galaxies! What a vast universe G-d created!
The cell phone was first developed in Israel by Motorola, where its largest development centre is located. Those Israelis sure know their stuff when it comes to technology!
Did you know that if someone would count every grain of sand on every beach in every country in the world, the number that they would get to wouldn’t even be close to the number of stars in space?! Now that’s a lot of stars!!! Our Creator certainly created an awesome, fascinating world for us to live in.