Useless Facts about Nature and the World

Useless Facts about Nature and the World



• A starfish doesn't have a brain.
• The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
• Apples, not cafeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
• Alligators cannot move backwards
• Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down
• Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes
• A gold fish's memory span is three seconds
• The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts
• 400 quarter-pounders can be made out of 1 cow
• Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches
• Their are only two types of pig: American and European
• Cows have four stomachs
• A Dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps
• A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon
• Emus can't walk backwards
• Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have 10
• Camels' milk can't curdle
• Most hamsters blink one eye at a time
• It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenoulsly.
• Brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pickup truck
• The world sheep population is approx. 1,202,920,000
• The world cattle population is approx. 1,294,604,000
• The world goat population is approx. 94,266,000
• The world pig population is approx. 857,099,000
• The world camel population is 19,627,000
• The longest recorded lifespan of a camel was 35 years, 5 months
• The longest recorded lifespan of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
• The number one most popular cat name is kitty
• The number one most popular dog name is Brandy
• The average housefly lives for one month
• To keep cool, Ostriges urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat
• The perefect pickle should have 7 warts per square inch
• Penguins can jump 6 feet.
• Houseflies hum in the mdidle octave key of F
• The average acre of corn contains 7.2 million kernals
• Cows poop 16 times per day.
• Cows produce around 65 pounds of maneure per day
• A group of goats is called a trip
• A group of hares is called a Husk
• A group of finches is called a Charm
• An ostriche's eye is bigger than its brain
• Hamsters do bot blink
• Cats have 5 pads on thier front feet, four on their back feet.
• A duck's quack has no echo.
• Lemons have more sugar than oranges.
• A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees farenheit.
• The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains
• Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.
• A duck has three eyelids.
• 70% of dust of house dust is dead skin cells.
• the only animal with four knees is the elephant.
• Australia is the only continent without an active volcanoe.
• A rat can go longer without water than a camel.
• a chicken is the only animal that is eaten before it is born and after it is dead.
• every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in n1930.
• a pig always sleeps on its right side.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• When opossums are hanging upside-down, they are not playing. It is from shear terror.
• The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
• The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
• Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box
• All porcupines float in water.
• An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
• Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
• Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
• Polar bears are left-handed.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• The nnly bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird.
• Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
• Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.
• An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
• In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
• Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for forward thinking.
• The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis.
• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
• St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.
• In his book 'The Insects', naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive ncycle is so rapid that the females are born pregnant.
• The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
• You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
• Camel's milk does not curdle.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• the starfish is the only animal that can turn it's stomach inside out.
• The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump.
• Only only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
• 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 its forearms nto dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
• A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
• A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
• A group of whales is called a pod.
• A group of ravens is called a murder.
• A group of officers is called a mess.
• A group of larks is called an exaltation.
• A group of owls is called a parliament.
• A group of frogs is called an army.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
• Armadillos can be housebroken.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
• Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
• Mosquitoes have teeth.
• The penguin is the only bird that can swim but not fly.
• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
• Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
• The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
• A jellyfish is 95% water.
• Horses and rabbits cannot vomit.
• A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
• Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) border collie 2)poodle 3)golden retriever.
• Dumbest dog: Afghan
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed.
• Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
• Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie nPoint (in Death Valley) , the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles napart.
• The state of Florida is bigger than England.
• Mexico's east coast is sinking into the sea at the rate of one to two inches per year.
• 'Three dog night' (attributed to Australian Aborigines) came about because on especially cold nights these nomadic people needed three dogs (dingos, actually) to keep from freezing.
• The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same - they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.
• You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
• In 1975, for the first time ever, a horse gave birth to a zebra.
• A bass caught on a spinner bait and released will not hit another spinner bait until approx. 10 days later.
• Elephant trunks can hold 4 gallons of water.
• In Vermont, the ratio of cows to people is 10:1
• in 1992 five cows were killed in drive by shootings in Clay County, Missouri.
• In a test performed by Canadian scientists, using various different styles of music, it was determined that chickens lay the most eggs when pop music was played.
• a male gypsy moth can smell a female gypsy moth in heat from upto a mile and a half.
• Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and flat on the bottom.
• Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
• Toronto, Ontario was home to the biggest swimming pool in the world in 1925. it held 2000 swimmers, and was 300ft x 75ft. It is still in operation today.
• Bacteria increase from 1 to one billion in a petri dish in 24 hours.
• Camel milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when boiled.
• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• The north pole moves as fast as 5km / hour
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.