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TH 11 Trivia
Collected by [pixish], Art by [LadyMoon], Bullets from Elftown Graphics

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The Great Barrier Reef, on the coast of North-Eastern Australia is the longest coral reef in the world. It measures about 1,243 miles long.

A Blue Whale's heart is about the size of a small car.

A Bluefin Tuna can swim up to 55 miles an hour.

Coral has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bone to heal quickly!


Dolphins can pick up sounds underwater from a distance of 15 miles away!

A group of jellyfish is called a 'smack'.

Tiger shark embryos fight each other while in the womb. In the beginning there can be up to 400-500 embryos inside the mother shark. They develop sharo teeth while still in the womb and start...eating each other. Near the end, there might be 4 - 5 baby sharks still alive in the womb. They fight to the death, until there is only one survivor. This survivor is then born with plenty of hunting and fighting experience.

The Giant Squid has the largest eye of any animal in the world. It is roughly the size of a basketball...

A baby oyster is called a 'Spat'


Not every creature has a brain - a Starfish certainly doesn't!

Take a look at an Octopi eye...The pupil is rectangular.


Fish do not have eyelids.

Octopi really do make gardens! They look for shiny objects, or pretty rocks to make little ornamental 'gardens'

You will find that a shrimp's heart - is in its head!


Have you ever been called a dork? What you really should have been called was a 'Whale Willy'.
A whale's penis is called a dork!

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This Issue's Trivia Was Found At These Sites:

Ocean Trivia
http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/Educate/Neptune/trivia/trivia.htm

http://www.jayp.net/trivia/animal01.htm

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1590/is_n8_v53/ai_19069949

http://divemad.com/octopus_eye.htm

http://www.iamthebeatles.com/article1231.html

http://www.phillsinfo.com/animal-trivia.html

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