animals

A cat's jaws can not move sideways

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

A bear has 42 teeth.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra

Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.

There are only two animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear and the Chow dog

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

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to obtain the juices from the food

Crickets hear through their knees

A flea expert is a pullicologist

Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from sunshine

The average hen will lay 227 eggs a year

Swans are the only birds with penises.

Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.

Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second

Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!

The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.

It is physically impossible for pigs to lookup into the sky.

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

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

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

The air we breathe is 78% nitrogen, 21.5% oxygen, .5% argon and other gases.

The only rock that floats in water is pumice.

The three most common elements in the universe are 1) hydrogen; 2) helium; 3) oxygen.

Eagles mate in mid air.

James Cook
1773 --- 1st person to cross Antarctic Circle.

Marquis d'Arlandes
Pilatre de Rozier
1783 --- 1st humans to fly. They were airborne in a hot-air balloon for 20 minutes, in Paris, on Nov. 21.

1st female Nobel Prize winners:
1903 ---  Physics: Marie Sklodowska Curie
1905 ---     Peace: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
1909 --     Literature: Selma Ottilia Lovisa LagerlØf
1911 ---    Chemistry: Marie Sklodowska Curie
1947 ---     Physiology & Medicine: Gerty Radnitz Cori

Marie Sklodowska Curie 1911 --- 1st person ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Her first was in Physics (1903) and the second in Chemistry (1911.)

What is the most common element found in the universe?
A: Hydrogen

Which planet is the hottest?
A:  Venus is the hottest planet.

Which planet is the coldest?
A: Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.

How long is an astronomical unit?
A: The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).

Q: What landmark invention did Ts'ai Lun invent from bark and hemp in the second century?
A:  Paper.

Q: What was the occupation of cotton candy machine inventor William James Morrison?
A:  Dentist.

Q:  What Italian astronomer invented the thermometer in 1592?
A: Galileo.

Q: What did George Nisser invent after observing high wire performers bouncing on safety nets?
A:  The trampoline.

Q:  What century saw the invention of the shoelace?
A: The eighteenth. 

Q: What O-word describes oxygen with molecules that have three atoms instead of two?
A: Ozone.

Q: What unit of measure do you multiply by .39 to convert it to inches?
A: Centimeters.

Q: What sea creature can have an eye measuring 16 inches across, the largest in the animal kingdom?
A:  A squid.

: What do doctors look at through an ophthalmoscope?
A:  The eye.

: What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"?
A: Laser.

A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.

Ants don't sleep.

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.

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

Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the Earth's food crop.

Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source

Our galaxy has approximately 250 billion stars.

Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.

The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.

There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.

There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.

There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet.

There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult.

There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world.

There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.
A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

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

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Catfish have 100,000 taste buds

Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.