Thursday, September 29, 2011

Strange Ant Facts


The Slave-Maker Ant burglarizes the home of other ants and steal their children. When the pupae of the captured hatch, they are forced to work as slaves.

Worker ants live a little more than a month, but the queen can live over twenty years.

The weight of all ants on Earth is roughly equal to the weight of all humans on Earth. That's kind of weird. One would expect the opposite.

Ants invented farming long before humans did.

Ants have the largest brain relative to its body size.

About a quarter billion people in China subsist on less than one dollar per day.

There are over a hundred million people who use the internet in China.

Marlboro's founder died from lung cancer. How ironic.

Bank of America's original name was Bank of Italy.

There are topless women in Liverpool, England selling tropical fish. It's probably more fun watching the topless women than buying the actual fish.

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