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What are facts about earthworms?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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actually worms are hermaphrodites

1) Worms are coldblooded animals

2) Worms can eat their weight each day

3) There are 2,700 different kinds of earthworms

4) Depending on the species earthworms can live anywhere between 4 and 8 years

5) Earthworms don't have teeth but they do have a gizzard to break up their food

6) Earthworms are made up of 82% protein

7) If the head or the tail is accidentally cut off or detached the worm is able to grow a new head or butt

8) Earthworms live everywhere except Antarctica

9) Cleopatra declared earthworms as sacred, and forbade Egyptian farmers from removing them from the land.

10) Earthworms are amazingly strong, they can move a stone up to 60 times their weight

11) The largest earthworm ever found was 22 feet. It was found in South Africa
if an earth worm loses any part of its body it will grow back. they can grow up to 20 feet long

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