Pigs, walruses and light-colored On average, pigs live for about By feeding hens certain dyes

horses can be sunburned. 15 years. they can be made to lay eggs

with varicolored yolks

Brown eggs come from hens with red

A cow gives nearly 200,000 feathers and red ear lobes; white eggs
Goat's eyes have rectangular
glasses of milk in her lifetime. come from hens with white feathers pupils
and white ear lobes.

Horses cannot vomit. It is physically impossible for The longest recorded flight of a
pigs to lookup into the sky. chicken is thirteen seconds.

It is possible to lead a cow The placement of a donkey's

upstairs but not downstairs, eyes in its' heads enables it to A duck's quack doesn't echo,
because a cows' knees can't see all four feet at all times. and no one knows why.
bend properly to walk back
down.

There is a type of parrot in New

There are more chickens in the Zealand that likes to eat the Hummingbirds are the only
world than people. rubber strips that line car animals that can fly backwards.
windows.

Big Ben was slowed five

A flamingo can eat only when minutes one day when a An ostrich's eye is bigger than
its head is upside down. passing group of starlings it's brain.
decided to take a rest on the
minute hand of the clock.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 Crickets hear through their Dragonflies are one of the
hours. knees. fastest insects, flying 50 to 60
mph. (80 to 95kph)
 A cockroach can live a week
without its head. The roach A cat has 32 muscles in each Reindeer like to eat bananas.
only dies because without a ear.
mouth, it can't drink water and
dies of thirst.

Cats have over one hundred vocal

Porcupines float in water. sounds, while dogs only have about
Many hamsters only blink one
ten. eye at a time.

All pet hamsters are descended

There are only two animals from a single female wild Camels have three eyelids to
with blue tongues, the Black golden hamster found with a protect themselves from
Bear and the Chow dog. litter of 12 young in Syria in blowing sand.
1930.

Dolphins sleep at night just Among Asian elephants, only A lump of pure gold the size of
below the surface of the water. the males have tusks. Both a matchbox can be flattened
They frequently rise to the sexes of African elephants have into a sheet the size of a tennis
surface for air. tusks. court.

Glass is actually a liquid. The largest organ in the human The most abundant metal in
body is the skin. the Earth's crust is aluminum.

A KLM 747-400 flight from The most densely populated

Amsterdam to Australia carries country is The Netherlands The country with the most
an average of just over 1,000 followed by Belgium, then number of islands is Finland
kilograms of food, and some Japan
1,324 litres of drink

If the earth were the size of an Tigers have striped skin as well Identical twins do not have
apple, it would feel as smooth as striped fur. identical finger prints.
as a billiard ball.
 The opposite sides of Las Alligators are able to out run The whip was the first man-
Vegas-standard dice always add humans, and can climb trees. made invention to break the
up to seven. sound barrier.

Olympus Mons rises 16 miles The Teddy Bear was named

above the Martian surface, after Teddy Roosevelt after he When the sport of basketball
making it the tallest geological refused to kill a defenseless was first invented, the game
formation known. bear cub while on a hunting was played with a soccer ball.
trip in Mississippi.

Manhole covers are round Human sneeze particles have

because that way they can not been clocked at more than Electric eels can discharge with
fall through the hole. 100mph / 160kph. enough power to kill a horse, or
a human.
Terra Psittacorum was an early In Massachusets, it's illegal to Oysters can change sex
name for Australia. scare a pigeon. depending on water
temperature.

English has the most words of The Ancient Greeks claimed the
any language. A snake hears with its tongue. sky was bronze as they had no
word for blue.

Since they have only 20–30 In the UK, there is a higher

The planet Mars is actually taste buds, birds can't chance of being killed by an
brown in colour. distinguish the taste of asteroid than by lightning.
chocolate which is poisonous to
them anyway.

Technically there are only 46

states in the USA because There is no such animal as a
Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania panther. It's a black leopard.
and Massachusetts are
commonwealths.