Interesting facts

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

-A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body
-A chimpan!ee can learn to recogni!e itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't
-A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
-About "0# of the world's population is left-handed
-A typical bed usually houses o$er 6 billion dust mites
-A person afflicted with he%adectylism has si% fingers or si% toes on one or both hands and
feet
-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second
-A !ebra is white with black stripes
- &orpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by s'ueaking, growling, moaning,
and whistling &orpoises and dolphins are mammals (here are about )0 species or kinds of
porpoises and dolphins *ost porpoises and dolphins na$igate by using +echolocation+ (he
largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale
- (he hippopotamus gi$es birth under water and nurses its young in the ri$er as well,
though the young hippos do come up periodically for air
-A cow gi$es nearly ,00,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
(he world's largest rodent is the -apybara An Ama!on water hog that looks like a guinea
pig, it can weigh more than "00 pounds
(he world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of (hailand, weighing less than a penny
-- How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earths 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. hen cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. his movement
of air is what ma!es the wind blow.
- "olphins sleep with one eye open#
--.hy do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored /acket than a light-colored one0
1ark colors absorb light energy Light colors and white reflect light energy .hen light
shines on your dark /acket, the /acket fabric absorbs light energy (he absorbed light
energy causes electrons in the atoms of the /acket to $ibrate (his acti$ity releases heat
energy, which makes the /acket2and you2warmer (hat's why we like to wear more dark
colors in winter and more light colors in summer
-.hile sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth
-At "33 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 It4s a flute
car$ed from a bird4s wing bone more than 5,000 years ago (he flute was disco$ered with
other flutes at an ancient burial site in -hina
- (he fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto )"6 miles per hour (he breed
was known to e%ist in ancient 7gypt 6,000 years ago
-- 8lue dates back to prehistoric times Artists once mi%ed colorings with raw eggs, dried
blood, and plant /uices to make sticky paints for ca$e murals Later, ancient 7gyptians and
other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides (oday
companies make glues using synthetic substances
-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of
extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as
antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with
another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its neres by doing something natural and
instinctie.
-The grizzly bear can run as fast as the aerage horse!!
- (he female lion does more than 50# of the hunting while the male simply prefers to
rest !!
- A /ellyfish is 59 percent water!
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces
-:ingernails grow nearly ) times faster than toenails!
-;ou blink o$er "0,000,000 times a year!
- <f all the words in the 7nglish language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!
- (he sun is ==0,==0 times larger than the earth!-
- 1ogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed or is that paws0!
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its ,"-inch tongue!
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
-A cat"s jaws cannot moe sideways.
-*ore people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes
- +8o+ is the shortest complete sentence in the 7nglish language
(he $ocabulary of the a$erage person consists of 9,000 to 6,000 words
- >o word in the 7nglish language rhymes with +month+
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
(he a$erage person laughs about "9 times a day
(he a$erage person walks the e'ui$alent 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+