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BY: MARINA REPLOGLE, CIERRA COTTLE, AND JAYLEE SMITH media type="custom" key="5240811"

Facts:
 * Rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground
 * 1 out of 4 ingredients in medicine is from rainforest plants
 * 1400 rainforest plants are believed to offer cures for cancer
 * Amazon rainforests produce about 40% of the world's oxygen
 * Covers 2% of our planet's surface but over half of earth's animal, insects, and flora live there
 * Within a four mile square area of a tropical rainforest you can find,
 * more than 750 species of trees
 * 1500 different kinds of flowering plants
 * 125 species of mammals
 * 400 species of birds
 * 100 reptiles
 * 60 amphibians
 * countless insects
 * 150 species of butterflies