- Humans cannot catch warts from toads or other animals; the bumps on a toad are not warts.
- Bats are not blind, however. Their eyes are small and poorly developed.
- Lemmings do not engage in suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating.
- Mammal blood is bright red or scarlet when oxygenated and a darker red when not oxygenated. It is never blue. Veins appear blue through the skin because of Rayleigh scattering, the same effect responsible for the blue sky.
- An earthworm does not become two worms when cut in half. An earthworm can survive being bisected, but only the front half of the worm (where the mouth is located) can survive, while the other half dries out or starves to death.
- Humans did not evolve from monkeys or from any current non-human apes. Rather, humans and other modern simians--chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, baboons, etc.-- all share a common early ancestor.
- The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, but it is not the world's largest desert (arid land). Antarctica has almost no liquid precipitation (rain) and is thus a desert. Almost no animal life exists in its interior at all .
- Toilet waste is not dumped overboard in aircraft. All waste is collected in tanks which are emptied on the ground by special toilet waste vehicles
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