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• *Ants don't sleep.
• *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.
• *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."
• *There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
• *A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
• *Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length
• *A baby bat is called a pup.
• *German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• *A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
• *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 world-wide is the mosquito.
• *The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
• *Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
• *A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
• *Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
• *Snakes are immune to their own poison.
• *An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• *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).
• *Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• *Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• *Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
• *A shrimp's heart is in their head.
• *A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• *A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
• *The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
• *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.
• *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.
• *Cat's urine glows under a black light.
• **The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
• *I 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.
• *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.
• *Moles are able to 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.
  *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.
• *The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it 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.
• *he poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
• *A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• *Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
• *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.
• *Ants can live up to 16 years.
• *In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.
• *The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.
• *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 all the 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.
• **It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• **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.
  
• *111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321
• *If a statue of a person in the park 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 bullet proof 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?
  *crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  *A snail can sleep for three years.
  *Ans. - HoneY.
  *A All polar bears are left handed.
• *American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each
  *salad served in first-class.
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• *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 is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
• *The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• *The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• *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.
• *Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• *Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different