Nature

The cheetah is the only big cat that lacks retractable claws

Pumice is the only rock that floats in water

Lions are unable to make purring sounds

About 40 percent of your body weight is from muscles

The Rocky Mountains are getting a few centimetres higher every year

The blue whale is bigger than any of the dinosaurs

Butterflies taste with their feet

Bamboo can grow 1 meter in a single day

Ice fish have "anitfreeze" in their blood to keep them from freezing

All spiders have the ability to spin silk

The average Tyrannosaurus Rex was the size of a small giraffe

A hippo's milk is bright pink

Starfish are the only animal that can turn their stomachs inside out

Jellyfish don't have brains

Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump

The tongue of an anteater is over 2 feet long

Cats urine glows under black light

A shrimps heart is in its head

Turtles can breath through their butts

An ostrich's eye is bigger then its brain

Tigers have stripped skin

A cockroach can live 9 days with out its head before it starves to death

A female praying mantis initiates sex by ripping the male's head off

An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph

A polar bear's skin is black, and its hair is clear

Some snails have lungs while others have gills

The Koala was originally called the new holland sloth

The fastest moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph

In the Caribbean some oysters can climb trees

The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when thawed

Opossums are immune to rattlesnake venom

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon

A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee

The average ear of corn has eight-hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows

If your dog lives to age 11you will have spent more then $13,000 on him/her

Almonds are members of the peach family

Only humans and horses have hymens

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer

The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the smae pattern of whiskers

Dartboards are made out of horsehairs

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

Rats cant' throw-up

The tallest tree on the planet a giant redwood that soars 370 feet into the sky in California, and it is still growning

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs

The anaconda one of the world's largest snakes gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs

If you feed a seagul Alka Seltzer its stomach will explode

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects flying 50 to 60 mph

The harmless Whale Shark holds the title of largest fish with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919

A 1200 pound harse eats about seven times it's own weight each year

Orcas kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath causing the shark to explode

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts

Starfish don't have brains

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet dormally without being hurt

Octopi have gardens

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living

Woodpecker scalps porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money

When a female horse and male donkey mate the offspring is called a mule but when a mail horse and a female donkey mate the offspring is called a hinny

Horses and Rabbits connot vomit

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them, a fully ripened cranberry can be dirbbled like a basketball

Montana mountain goats will but heads so hard their hooves fall off

A baby eel is called an elver a baby oyster is called a spat

Lack Nicaragua boasts the only fresh water sharks in the entire world

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again

Ingrown toenails are hereditary

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

A group of owls is called a parliament

A group of kangaroos is called a mob

A group of unicorns is called a blessing

Twelve or more cows ar known as a "Fink"

A group of frogs is called an army

A group of rhinos is called a crash

A group of whales is called a pod

A group of geese is called a gaggle

A group of ravens is called a murder

A group of officers is called a mess

A group of larks is called an exaltation

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