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13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

By:: Andrea Meno

July 02, 2021

13 Amazing Now-You-Know Facts About The Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. It's located in South America and covers more than 2,7 million square kilometers. The Amazon River runs through it, making it one of the most bio-diverse areas on Earth. You'll find everything from jaguars to piranhas in the Amazon rainforest. Unfortunately, it's also under threat from deforestation. If we don't take steps to protect it, the Amazon rainforest could soon be gone forever.

The Amazon rainforest is one of the most magnificent places on Earth. While most people know it is a rainforest, they may not know all of the interesting facts about it.

Did you know that the Amazon rainforest is bigger than the continental United States? That's right - it's massive! And it's home to some pretty amazing creatures and plant life. In this article, we're going to share some now-you-know facts about the Amazon rainforest. So sit back, relax, and get ready to learn some interesting things!

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The Amazon rainforest totally depends on the Sahara desert in Africa to survive. Winds blow dust from the Sahara, including phosphorus, and deposit it in the Amazon, where trees desperately need it to stay alive. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NASA

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On an average day, 20 billion metric tons of water evaporates from trees in the Amazon. There's so much water passing through the trees, it makes the Amazon a gigantic, natural sprinkler system that sprays an entire continent. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: TED

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Some of the Amazon rainforest used to be a pretty heavily built-up area. Until about 400 years ago, up to 50,000 or so people used to live there in 28 towns in an area roughly the size of New Jersey. There were roads, bridges and canals, too. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Scientific American

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There's a tribe in the Amazon rainforest that doesn't have any words for numbers. The Piraha have a word for a small size or amount, and a somewhat larger size or amount,. . and it doesn't get more specific than that, apparently. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The New Yorker

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In the Amazon, there's a single uncontacted member of a lost tribe, living alone. Nobody knows what language is spoken by the Last of his tribe (he has no name), or even what tribe he's from. There are no plans to contact him. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Survival International

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In the Amazon rainforest, butterflies swarm turtles and lick away their tears. There's very little sodium in the rain in southeastern Peru, so butterflies and other animals have to get it any way they can -- in this case, from turtle tears. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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There's a tower deep in the Amazon rainforest that's over 1,000 feet high. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO), a German-Brazilian project, was built for research into how the rainforest interacts with the soil and atmosphere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: ATTO Project

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Apparently, people from the Amazon are closely related to Indigenous Australians. Researchers think they come from a common ancestor in Asia whose descendants spread to New Guinea, Australia, and eventually Latin America, but died out elsewhere. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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Rubber from the Amazon rainforest built the United States Navy in WWII. The U.S. lost its rubber supply due to a Japanese invasion, so they turned to Brazil - which mobilized a practical army of men to harvest rubber from the Amazon. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Al Jazeera

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In the Amazon rainforest, there are parasite wasps that prey on spiders. The wasp paralyzes a spider, then lays an egg on it. After a baby wasp emerges from the egg, it eats the spider and eventually turns into a full-sized parasite wasp. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Eurekalert

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10% of all living species on the planet live somewhere in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon is so big, it covers 1.4 billion acres and spreads over eight countries. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: WWF.org

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Henry Ford tried to build Fordlandia, his own town deep in the Amazon rainforest. In 1927, he built a rubber plantation in the jungle and a town next to it. It failed -- people fought over food and over having to live under strict, Fordian order. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NPR

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There are real, flesh-and-blood dogs with two noses in the Amazon rainforest. The Double-Nosed Andean tiger hound has a really good sense of smell, as you might expect, even though it's not terribly handsome, as one explorer said. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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