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rabbit
  • Male feral rabbits urinate on the females to state their ownership
  • Female rabbits on the other hand, reabsorb their embryo for the proteins

rabies
  • All mammals can get rabies, but viral reservoirs are found in carnivores (foxes, dogs, cats) and bats
  • Some mammals with rabies become terrified of water
  • More people die from dog attacks than from rabies each year
  • Noone survives from rabies once there are clinical symptoms

race
  • A German anthropologist once divided the human race into five groups based on their skull shape: Caucasians, Malayans, Mongolians, Ethiopian and American

racoon
  • Racoons eat everything except tomatoes

rain
  • Rain falls at 11kmph (7mph)

rat
  • Rats cannot vomit
  • Most rats have poor vision, but they make up for it with their whiskers. They use the long hairs, also called “vibrissae,” by feeling objects and forming a mental picture of their surroundings
  • Rats can go without water longer than camels in their environment

Reality TV
  • UK show Strictly Come Dancing sold to 38 countries and had a peak audience of 13.3 million vieweds which was almost a 50% audience share
  • It costs SGD$750,000 to make one episode of a reality TV show compared to SGD$3 million for a sitcom
  • More than 3000 people auditioned for Afghan model in 2009. Only 10 were women
  • 1 in 10 UK teenager would abandon their education to be on reality TV
  • Susan Boyle’s audition on Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 was watched by over 120 million people on YouTube
  • 1 in 4 show on US primetime is a reality show
  • Gordon Ramsay said expletives over 80 times in one episode of Kitchen Nightmares
  • In 2010, Malaysia casted for Imam Muda where contentents were pitted in tests of Islamic theory, and challenges included counselling teenagers, preparing corpses for burial and Quran reciting. The top prize was a new car, a job as an Imam and a scholarship in Saudi Arabia
  • Reality TV actually started on the radio in 1947 with Candid Microphone

recycling
  • Recycling one aluminium can will generate enough energy to power a television for 3 hours

Redwood
  • The bark of a redwood tree is fire resistant
  • No insect can kill a redwood tree
  • A redwood tree can live for 2000 years
  • A redwood tree ‘holds on’ to other tree roots in order to stand so tall.

reptile
  • The gender of Reptiles are determined not by the sex genes, but by the temperature in which the egg is incubated. A certain temperature will produce a male and vice versa for a female
  • The worlds fastest reptile (measured on land) is the spiny-tailed iguana of Costa Rica.  It has been clocked at 21.7 mph


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