Do You Know? Some are interesting!
- ANTS do not sleep.
- Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
- The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
- The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
- Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape. Because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
- A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
- The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- DOGS that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
- There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
- Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
- Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
- The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae Insulae - "Island of Dogs."
- Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
- A baby bat is called a pup.
- It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
- The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
- CATS respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
- A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European Weasel.
- A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
- Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
- The cat lover is an Ailurophile, while a cat hater is an Ailurophobe.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.
- PIGS, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants!
- A shrimp's heart is in their head.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A cockroach will live 9 days without its head, before it starves to death.
- The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
- A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
- It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
- Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
- Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
- It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
- Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.
- It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
- Moles can tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
- Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
- A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
- The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
- The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig and can weigh more than 100 pounds.
- The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
- The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
- Snakes are immune to their own poison.
- The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
- Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
- The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
- The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
- Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.
- The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.
- To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.
- 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.
- Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.
- The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.
- A one-ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.
- Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
- The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.
- In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
- Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.
- Coca-Cola was originally green.
- The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
- The name of the entire continents end with the same letter that they start with.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
- You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow.
- People say, "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest Tongue twister in the English language.
- If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
- Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar. - If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
- What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women. - Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- All polar bears are left-handed.
- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
- Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
- Stewardesses are the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- A dentist invented the electric chair.
- The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. .
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
