May 30, 2009

You should get to know all these......

1. Ants don't sleep.
2. Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
3. A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
4. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
5. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
6. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
7. The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
8. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
9. A baby bat is called a pup.
10. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
11. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
12. Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
13. A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
14. Snakes are immune to their own poison.
15. Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
16. The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
17. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
18. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
19. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
20. The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
21. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
22. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
23. A black panther is really a black leopard.
24. Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
25. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
26. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

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  2. Awesome :)now I'm a little beat more smarter :D:) thank you !
    But I knew about black panthers and bout carbon monoxide , about lion weight ,bout snakes and poison , mosquitoes , German Shepard and about the new born canguru , so I wasn't to ignorant before ...I hope :D:)
    Have a nice day !

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