Giraffes spend over 60-80% of their time eating... Their cervical vertebra is over 11 inches in length...
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The world's longest bridge is the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China, part of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway....The bridge is 165 kilometers long... The bridge, which opened in June 2011, spans 102.4 miles (165 kilometers). Another part of that train line, the 70.8-mile (114-km) long Langfang–Qingxian viaduct, is the second longest bridge in the world. China constructed the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in just 4 years, employing 10,000 workers, at a cost of about $8.5 million. It crosses low rice paddies, part of the Yangtze River Delta, with just a few miles of the bridge actually crossing the open water of Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou. The bridge averages about 100 feet (31 meters) off the ground. ...
The largest snowflake ever recorded reportedly measured 15 inches across ... The Giant Snowflake which was said to be the largest ever seen was witnessed by the Army personnel who were posted at Fort Keogh, which was a post in the United States of America located on the western side of the then-Territory of Montana, two years before Montana was admitted to the Union as the 41st U.S. State. Here, the most important news appeared after the people saw the largest snowflake ever amidst a snowstorm which was falling upon the fort named after U.S. Army Captain Keogh who died while fighting for that same post. The snow storm which was being witnessed by the soldiers saw some 15-inch wide snowflakes fall, and it is said that snowflakes of their breadth and thickness were being witnessed for the first time in human history.
