Friday, August 17, 2012

Uncommon knowledge

(1) Ants don't sleep.

(2) Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

(3) A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

(4) The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

(5) A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

(6) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

(7) 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."

(8) There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

(9) A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

(10) The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

(11) The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

(12) Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

(13) A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

(14) Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

(15) Snakes are immune to their own poison.

(16) An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

(17) The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

(18) The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

(19) The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.

(20) Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.

(21) Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

(22) The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

(23) Most lipstick contains fish scales.

(24) The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.

(25) Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

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