Earthworms

• The technical term for someone who studies earthworms is "oligochae-telogist."
• An earthworm can live for more than 10 years.
• By weight, about half of all animal life is earthworms.
• Earthworms like ice cream.
• When two earthworms mate, both become pregnant.
• Those night crawlers we call angleworms came to the new world from Europe in potted plants of colonials.
• People who have eaten earthworms say they taste like chicken. But to taste like chicken the earthworms have to be eaten raw.
• Charles Darwin's best selling opus wasn't The Origin of Species but a book about earthworms.
• Earthworms come above ground when it rains, not to keep from drowning (as is frequently thought), but to look for mates.

See related factoids about worms in general.