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Revision as of 08:07, 20 December 2017
Did you know that approximately 15,000 shipwrecks lie in Irish territorial waters?
Did you know that lobsters taste with their feet, hear with their legs, chew with their stomachs and pee from their heads during combat and courtship?
Did you know that a large container ship can store 745 million bananas – that’s one for every person in Europe and North America?
Did you know that coral reefs are among the oldest ecosystems in the world – at 230 million years?
