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• ... that the ocean waters hold nearly 20 million tons of gold? If we could mine all of the gold from the ocean, we would have enough to give every person on earth 9lbs of the precious metal.
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• ... that the giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal in the world – each eye is up to 40cm in diameter, which is bigger than a human head?
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• ... that approximately 15,000 shipwrecks lie in Irish territorial waters? 
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• ... that lobsters taste with their feet, hear with their legs, chew with their stomachs and pee from their heads during combat and courtship? 
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• ... that a large container ship can store 745 million bananas – that’s one for every person in Europe and North America? 
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• ... that coral reefs are among the oldest ecosystems in the world – at 230 million years? 
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