Did You Know?.. AnimalsA pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. There are more chickens than people in the world. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Butterflies taste with their feet. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in their head. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand or attempted to do so. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. Rats and horses can't vomit. Rats
multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million
descendants. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. |
