A baby toucan is incubated for around 20 days, when they are born they don’t have their characteristic beak, they develop this as they grow.
If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
Brazilian prisoners can reduce their sentence by 4 days for every book they read and write a report on.
Most people can survive for up to 2 months without eating, but people can only live up to 11 days without sleeping.
In 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived in London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.
Vegetables and fruits don’t die the moment they are harvested. They respond to their environment for days.
Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets: 5 cans of beer for a day’s work, plus €10 and tobacco.