1Great white shark attacks
After the only two recorded attacks on Great White Sharks by Orcas, the surrounding shark population packed up their stuff and got the hell out of there.
2. Great White Sharks sometimes regurgitate a bite to make room for a more calorically-rich morsel. This pattern is further evidence that white sharks are adept at assessing the caloric value of their food and are selective when feeding.
3. 'Shark Island' is a concentration camp in German South West Africa (currently Namibia) where victim's bodies were "buried in a few inches of sand at low tide, and as the tide came in, the bodies went out as food for the sharks."
4. Hammerhead sharks reproduce once a year, usually with the male shark biting the female shark violently until she agrees to mate with him.
5. The megalodon had teeth the size of a human head and was longer than a school bus.
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6Kangaroos
In Australia, kangaroos kill more people than sharks.
7. Dick Richards, the original director of the movie Jaws, was fired because he kept calling the shark a whale.
8. There is an animal that is a near-perfect mix of a shark and a ray called a Bowmouth guitarfish.
9. The worst shark attack in human history occurred in 1945 after the USS Indianapolis was sunk in the Pacific. As many as 150 sailors waiting to be rescued were killed by sharks.
10. Colossal cannibal great white shark is capable of hunting and eating 10 ft Great White Sharks.
11Bamboo sharks
Bamboo sharks can survive on land for 12 hours.
12. Scientists have discovered sharks that live in a volcano.
13. Jacques Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip as "The most dangerous of all sharks." The oceanic whitetip is suspected to be responsible for many fatal shark bites on humans, as a result of predation on survivors of shipwrecks or downed aircrafts.
14. Sharks act calmer when listening to AC/DC rock band songs.
15. Cows kill 22 times more people a year than sharks.
16Dalai Lama
Even though the Dalai Lama can't swim, his greatest fear is being eaten by a shark.
17. Lamniformes, the mackerel sharks (Great Whites, Makos) do not require sleep.
18. A 12-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane that crashed straight into the Indian Ocean. She was rescued after spending 9 hours in rough, shark-infested waters clinging to life on a piece of debris from the plane.
19. In 2011, PETA mocked a 21-year-old man named Charles Wickersham who was attacked by a shark while he was spearfishing, calling the attack 'payback.'
20. There's a 16-foot-long, 3500 pound, female Great White shark named Mary Lee being tracked as she swims up and down the East coast of USA.
21Deep blue shark
"Deep Blue", one of the largest great white sharks ever filmed, is estimated to be over 50 years old and was (at the time) pregnant!
22. Ocean fish, rays, turtles and sharks stop at cleaning stations, where smaller shrimp and fish clean them off parasites, even swimming into their mouth and gills to do a thorough job.
23. Because Sharks have no rib cages, on land their weight can literally crush their own body.
24. More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
25. There is a rather large population of Bull sharks living in the brisbane river in Australia.
