Fun Shark Facts - Did You Know?

I put together a list of fun shark facts. Have a look and let me know if any of the shark facts shock you!

• There are more than 400 different kinds of sharks.
• You are 1,000 times more likely to drown in the sea than you are to be bitten by a shark.
• Sharks are more related to fishes like the stingray than they are barracuda.
• A shark can hear a fish in the water from more than a mile away.
• Sharks can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of water.
• Scientists can determine the age of a shark by counting the rings that form on its vertebra, much as you can count the rings on a tree to tell its age.
• Sharks’ wounds heal quickly and they rarely get tumors.
• The Dermal denticles that covers Shark skin is so tough and hard that before the invention of sandpaper, shark skin was used to polish wood.
• Shark teeth have been used as weapons and tools for many centuries.
• Eating Shark flesh is forbidden in both the Solomon and Fiji islands.
• About 100 people in the world are bitten by sharks each year. Of these, five to ten die.
• The chance of being killed by a shark is one in 300 million. The chance of being killed by airplane parts falling from the sky is one in 10 million.

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