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taste with their feet. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. A snail can sleep for three years. No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. All polar bears are left handed. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears. African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with. There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India. A house fly lives only 14 days. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world. An ostrich can run up to 70 km/h (43mph). An annoyed camel will spit at a person. The world's smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky." Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world. 75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old. The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Pork is the world's most widely-eaten meat In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people. Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren't any at that time. The coyote is a member of the dog family and its scientific name, "canis latrans" means barking dog. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue. The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day. |