A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 113 km in just a few seconds.

Female elephants are called cows. They start to have calves when they are about 12 years old and they are pregnant for 22 months.

When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia.

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