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More Intresting Facts You May Like To Know

By Yemi | 11:19 PM | |



  • Birds don’t urinate.
  • Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
  • Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
  • If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
  • The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
  • The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
  • Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
  • A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
  • Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
  • Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin
  • The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
  • Male mosquitos do not bite, only female mosquito bites.
  • For every human in the world there are one million ants.
  • For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
  • Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
  • Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
  • Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
  • A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
  • A honeybee has two stomaches- one for honey, one for food.
  • A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
  • Great white Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
  • Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
  • Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
  • Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
  • Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
  • When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
  • A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
  • The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
  • A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  • The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
  • The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
  • A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
  • A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. It then grows inside its mother’s bag.
  • Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
  • The leech has 32 brains.
  • Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the desert blowing sand.
  • The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
  • It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
  • On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
  • Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
  • Goat’s eyes have rectangular pupils.
  • The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

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