Amazing & Interesting Facts

African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away.

If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.

A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs.

A mother hen turns her egg approximately 50 times in a day. This is so the yolk does not stick to the shell.

Owls have no teeth.

The hump of a camel can weigh up to 35 kilograms.

A leopard's vision is so good it can practically see in the dark.

Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.

The puma and the leopard are the highest jumping mammals. They are able to reach a height of 16.5 feet.

A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.

To produce a dozen eggs, a hen has to eat about four pounds of feed.

A cow has four compartments in its stomach.

A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day.

Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.

The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees celcius.

Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. Chocolate contains a chemical theobromine, which is poisonous to dogs.

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.

The moisture that is on the tip of a dog's nose helps the dog detect odors.

Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time.

Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour.

A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.

Mules have one horse and one donkey for a parent.

An elephant's tooth can weight as much as three kilograms.

An elephant's trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water.

In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water.

A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.

Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water.

Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years.

The clown fish has the ability to change its sex.

The ocean sunfish can produce thirty million eggs at once.

There are species of fish that can walk on land in search of water when its water source dries up. Some can survive as long as three days on land such as the snakehead fish.

Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.

The ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow.

The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore.

A full grown giraffe's neck can weigh as much as 500 pounds.

A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel.

A giraffe is able to clean its ears with its own tongue.

A butterfly must have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly.

A butterfly's taste sensors are located below their feet.

A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.

Colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.

A honey bee has four wings.

A house fly's feet are 10 million times more sensitive than a human tongue.

A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes.

Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit.

A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately 0.03 ounces and is small enough to fit in a teaspoon.

Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

Rabbits can live up to ten years.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse.

If a lobster loses an eye or a claw it can usually grow a new one.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton.

The first credit card was issued by the Diners' Club in 1949.

Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world.

The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man.

40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.

A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet.

Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke.

Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compound.

Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange.

The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds.

Water expands 9% when it is frozen.

A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.

An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.

Astronauts get taller when they are in space.

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate.

Finland has 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands.

In a day, a mature oak tree can draw approximately 50 gallons of water.

In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it.

The most common rock on Earth is basalt.

The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean covers 28% of the Earth's surface.

Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.

One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.

Pluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft.

The Nile river is 6,690 kilometers long.

A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.

Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.

Two million red blood cells die every second.

Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.

The human face is made up of 14 bones.

The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.

There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.

The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin.

Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer.

A human eyeball weighs an ounce.

The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.

Brylcreem, which was created in 1929, was the first man's hair product.

Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

According to Scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.

During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.

During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore.

The Titanic's whistles could be heard from 11 miles away.

There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic.

There were approximately 2,228 people on board the Titanic when it sank. Of this, only 706 people survived.

France is known as the perfume capital of the world.

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.

In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.

Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.

After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

It took eleven years to built the Taj Mahal, (1632-1643).

Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs.

Central air conditioners use 98% more energy than ceiling fans.

Copper is the second most used metal in the world.

To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water are needed.

70% of the poor people in the world are female.

A Singapore singing group by the name of "The Oriental Singers," sang non-stop for 74 hours and five minutes.

The largest number of children born to one woman, who was a Russian peasant, is 69.

The largest shopping mall in the world is the West Edmonton Mall located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The longest kiss on record lasted 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Carmit Tsubara recorded it on April 5, 1999 at a kissing contest held in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10 inches.