A Zorse

This is Eclyse - a zorse. It is a cross-bred between a horse (her father) and a zebra (her mother). 

For while most zebra-horse crossbreeds sport stripes across their entire body, Eclyse only has two such patches, on its face and rear. She is a major attraction at a safari park at Schloss Holte Stukenbrock, near the German border with Holland.

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Fun Facts

1. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

2. Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.

3. Our stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

4. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

5. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

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Fun Facts about animals:

1. Houseflies always hum in the key of F.

2. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.

3. Just like the zebra, no two tigers have the same stripes.



4. Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.

5. Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colors red, green and yellow.

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Science Fact - 13

The Catatumbo Lightning is an atmospheric phenomenon in Venezuela. 

It causes lightning during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour. It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over the bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.

It originates from a mass of storm clouds at a height of more than 5 km. It occurs only over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo. 

The lightning have been continued for centuries, ceasing only in 2010 for three months (January - April) probably due to drought.

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