Category: Nature

It was previously believed that zebras were white animals with black stripes, since some zebras have white underbellies. Embryological evidence, however, shows that the animal’s background color is black and the white stripes and bellies are additions.

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A tiger’s skin is striped, just like its fur.

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More people are injured by dogs, cats and pigs than by sharks.

I guess this one is obvious, considering the number of sharks we have playing in our front yard.

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Every year, in New York alone, more people are bitten by other people than by sharks!

(And personally, the sea smells better anyway).

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Around the world, more people are killed by falling coconuts than attacked by sharks.

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The probability of being hit by lightning is 16 times higher than a shark attack.

Just make sure you stay out of the sea during a thunder storm!

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