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 * Rainforest facts **
 * == The size of a rainforest, (the size of a football field) is being destroyed every second which is right about now when your reading this or listening to me say this isn't that bad! ==
 * == enormous bamboo flora can grow up to 9 inches long a day. ==
 * == The trees of a tropical rainforest are so thickly packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground. ==
 * == In the moist rainforests of South America, sloths move so slowly that algae can start to grow in their fur. eww. ==
 * == Some rainforest monkeys are omnivores which means they eat both animals and plants. ==
 * == 80% of the flowers found in Australian Rainforest are not found anywhere else in earth. ==
 * == 1 out of 4 ingredients in medicine is from Rainforest flora. ==
 * == About 2,000 trees per minute are cut down in the Rainforests. ==

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 * == More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest. ==
 * == Rainforests are very dense, warm and wet. ==
 * == The reason it is called a "rain" forest is because of the high amount of rain it gets per year. Rainforests have an annual rainfall of at least 254 centimeters and often much more. ==
 * == They are very important as the flora of the rainforest creates lots of the Earth’s oxygen. ==
 * == There are 2 types of Rainforests there are a temperate Rainforest and there is a tropical Rainforest. ==
 * == Rainforests are found on every continent across the world, except Antarctica. ==
 * == Tropical rainforests are found close to the equator where temperatures and rainfall are very high all year round. The major areas of tropical rainforests are in South East Asia, West Africa and South and Central America. The best known rain forests are found in tropical areas between the Tropics of cancer and Capricorn. ==

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