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An alligator's jaws are powerful enough to crush cattle bones. but,
once the jaws are shut, they can be held closed by a person's hands.
A horse can stand continuously for up to a
month.
A 1,200 pound horse eats about seven times
it’s own weight each year.
A cat has 32 muscles in each
ear.
A cat's jaws cannot move
sideways.
A chameleon's tongue is twice
the length of its body.
A Cornish game hen is really a
young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cow gives nearly 200,000
glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A female mackerel lays about
500,000 eggs at one time.
A Holstein's spots are like a
fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A rat can last longer without water than
a camel can.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a
second.
A zebra is white with black stripes
An iguana can stay under water for 28
minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its
brain.
Aphids are born pregnant without the
benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue
whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
Australian termites have been known to
build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Camel milk does not curdle.
A camel can drink a bathtub
full of water in 30 minutes.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky
discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is
so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
10% of the weight of a 6 year old pillow is
from the waste and dead remains of the common bed mite. (Also known as "The Bed
Bug")
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust
mites.
There are more insects in one square mile
of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
The total weight of all the ants in the
world equals the total weight of all the people in the world.
Ants are social insects and live in colonies which
may have as many as 500,000 individuals.
Ants do not sleep.
Larger swarms of locusts can consume in one
day enough vegetation to feed a million people for a year.
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another
animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,
while dogs only have about ten.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then
thawed, and continue living.
Cojo, the first gorilla born in
captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
Dragonflies have a life span of 24
hours. They are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
Each day in the US animal shelters are
forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
Elephants can communicate using sounds
that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Hummingbirds lay only 2 eggs during
their entire lifetime.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
seconds.
The turbot fish lays approximately 14
million eggs during its lifetime.
It takes a lobster approximately seven
years to grow to be one pound.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an
ostrich egg.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from
a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
Sharks apparently are the only animals
that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including
cancer.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison
to kill about 2,200 people.
There are around 2,600 different species
of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.
Snakes cannot hear, therefore they find their prey
by feeling the vibrations on the ground or by heat sensors. Rattlesnakes cannot even hear
the sound of their own rattles.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300
feet of earth in a day.
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it
irritates their feet.
The Muscle uses a glue-like substance to
cling to objects. Just one application of this glue is enough to keep the muscle adhered
for over 50 years.
The Sea Urchin is able to clone itself and
build colonies. The separate colonies will fight one another for space which can last up
to 100 years.
The small pearl fish, found in the west
Indian waters, when frightened by a predator, quickly swims for protection into a sea
cucumber's anus.
A neutron star is totally solid matter - a trillion times heavier
than lead. A pinhead piece of a neutron star would weigh as much as a large building.
Earth orbits the sun at 66,000 miles per
hour. It travels 595 million miles per orbit.
The sun's diameter is approximately 840,000
miles. This is 109 times more than Earth's diameter. Approximately one million Earths can
fit inside the sun.
The core is the hottest part of the sun
where the temperature can reach 15 million degrees. The coolest part of the sun's
temperature reaches 6000 degrees.
The sun is constantly losing weight. It
loses approximately 4 million tons (8 billion lbs.) of mass every second. That's 345
billion tons (690 trillion lbs.) every day! This is the amount of hydrogen gas that the
sun turns into energy.
If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take
eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.
The Moon spins once on its axis each time
it goes around Earth. Because of this, we just see one side of the moon. Only space
travelers have seen the other side of the moon.
Even with the best communications
technology we have today, If we were to send a message to someone on a planet belonging to
our closest neighboring solar system, Alpha Centauri, (4.4 light-years away) we wouldn't
receive a reply message for 8.8 years.
Statistics say: If you were to board an airplane everyday, it would
take 100,000 years before you were involved in a plane crash. Even then, chances are you
would survive.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die
in air crashes.
Crayola makes so many crayons in a year, that
if you lined them up end to end, they would wrap around the earth four times.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy
to run your TV for three hours.
An estimated 661,000 tons (1.3 billion
lbs.) of tire tread are worn off American vehicles every year.
About 90% of all tires on the road are
under-inflated.
On average, every motorist wastes 13 gallons of gas per year on
under-inflated tires. That works out to 2 billion wasted gallons in America every year.
Any
month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
In the
late 19th century, millions of human mummies were used as fuel for locomotives in Egypt
where wood and coal was scarce, but mummies were plentiful.
It
takes about five years before a coffee tree produces a harvestable crop of cherries, and
each tree only produces the equivalent of a pound of roasted beans per year.
The
Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was
built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and
whites.
"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's
kissing the conveyor belt.
"Stewardesses" and "reverberated" are the two longest words (12
letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand.
The
longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is "lollipop".
"Skepticisms" is the longest word that alternates hands.
In the
1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in
taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why
your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
