Fun Fact of the Day 6/8: Stream of Consciousness

So, I feel like, instead of one fully developed fact, I'll simply vomit a stream of little tidbits, sound good?

• The largest overall snake in the world is the Anaconda (Eunectes murinus), which can reach lengths of around 25 feet and weights of 550 pounds
• Crocodilians (which include, crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials) are well-known for their bone-crushing bites, but it also little known that their jaws conversely are very weak when opening, and can be held shut with a good grip.
• Walruses use their tusks for both sparring amongst themselves and to anchor themselves to the seabed when feeding in the mud for clams, which they locate with their sensitive lips and whiskers
• Unlike most bats, fruit bats do not use echolacation, but instead have enormous eyes for seeing in the dark. The Flying Fox of australia is the largest bat in the world, and is considered a fruit bat.
• Both sharks and platypuses share the same sixth sense: the ability to detect electrical impulses. Platypuses have receptors on their leathery bill for this sense, just as sharks have on their snouts
• The largest eyes in the world belong to Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, or the "colossal squid" of antarctica, which can be nearly 2 feet across
• Charles Darwin actually was initially very aloof about his finches, as he forgot to write down what island each of them were from. He had to use another naturalist's notes to establish where each species had come from.
• sharks have been around in the fossil record for 400 million years
• You are never (statistically) farther than 8 feet from a spider
• The tiger shark is called the "garbage can of the sea" because of it's propensity to eat bizarre things. Among the objects purported to have been found in these animals stomach are: a dog, license plates, a roll of tar paper, nails, part of a suit of armor, handbags, linoleum, and even parts of people
• Hippos cannot swim, they can only walk along the bottom. They also only spend the day in the water, and come out at night to wander distances as far as 6 miles to graze
• Elephants eat four meals per day: three are the same time as our breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and the last is at around four o'clock in the morning
• Peregrine falcons can enter a dive and reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour, opening their wings to hit targets (usually pigeons or other birds) and pulling a g-force of around 10 in the process. Needless to say, at this speed, the falcon's extended talons often rip the unlucky target clean in half

So, good?