DO YOU KNOW?
? 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.
? 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.
? 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.
? 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.
? 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.
? The 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? 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.
? The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
? Most lipstick contains fish scales.
? Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
? 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.
