Amazing Facts, Animal Facts, Interesting Facts, Trivia

Did You know – The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going
nowhere today – it is too lazy !.

A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) – that’s really fast! The fastest human
beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).

a cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow).

A Zipper joins two pieces of material together.A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases,
boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who
invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he
didn’t get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a “clothing closure”.

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of
BUTTERFLIES

The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!

(Picture of a grizzly bear)

Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species
of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents
of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world’s largest meat-eating
animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)

(frog)

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near
fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called
amphibians.

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of
kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions.
Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it
has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special
chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey
across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car
from freezing up in winter

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and
gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a
hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

-A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.

–A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

-About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.

-A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

-A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet

-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

-A zebra is white with black stripes.

– Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling.
Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins.
Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using “echolocation”. The largest member of the dolphin
family is called an orca or killer whale.

– The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young
hippos do come up periodically for air.

-A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime

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 world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

–– How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts
of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect
rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and
replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.

– Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

–Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors
absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket,
the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the
jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That’s
why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.

–While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

–At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

—A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a
bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient
burial site in China.
– The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known
to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago

— Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and
plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to
make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic
substances.

-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of
extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as
antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with
another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and
instinctive.

–The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!

– The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!

– A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

– At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

-You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

– Of all the words in the English language, the word ‘ set ‘ has the most definitions!

– The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-

– Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!

– A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

– A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

–A cat’s jaws cannot move sideways.

–More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

– “Go.” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

– No word in the English language rhymes with “month”.

– An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

-An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

– All polar bears are left handed.

–Ants don’t sleep.

The word “racecar“, “kayak“, and “radar” are the same

whether they are read left to right or right to left.

“a man a plan a canal panama”

spelled backwards is still

“a man a plan a canal panama”

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