[Did you know?] the heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car

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This massive organ weighs over 1,300 pounds(590kg) and beats just 8 to 10 times a minute. Its thump echoes over two miles away in the ocean! The arteries are so wide a grown person could swim through them. That’s the jaw-dropping size of the blue whale, the largest animal ever to live on Earth.

These ocean giants start big and grow bigger. A newborn blue whale is 25 feet long — same as an adult killer whale! Babies guzzle 150 gallons of milk daily, packing on 200 pounds every day in their first year. Their diet? Tiny krill, shrimp-like critters just a centimetre or two long. An adult blue whale eats 4 to 6 tons of krill daily to fuel its massive body.

Blue whales are the loudest animals on the planet. Their deep calls travel hundreds of miles underwater, helping them chat with others far away.



They can live up to 90 years, growing upto 110 feet long and weighing around 180 tons, that's longer than a basketball court and heavier than...

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