DO YOU KNOW ?



· Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.


· Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.


· The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.


· The electric chair was invented by a dentist.


· The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.


· Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.


· Ants don't sleep.


· Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.


· A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.


· The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.


· A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.


· A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.


· 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."


· There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.


· A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.


· The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.


· The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.


· Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.


· A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.


· Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.


· Snakes are immune to their own poison.


· An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.


· Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.


· The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).


· Most lipstick contains fish scales.


· Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.


· Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.


· A shrimp's heart is in their head.


· A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.


· A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.


· The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.


· A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.


· It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.


· Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.


· Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.


· There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.


· Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.


· Cat's urine glows under a black light.


· The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.


· It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.


· Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.


· It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.


· Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.


· Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.


· Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.


· A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.


· The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.


. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.


· The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.


· The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.


· The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.


· The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.


· A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.


· Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.


· The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.


· Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.


· The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.


· The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.


· Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.


· The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.


· To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.


· 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.


· Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.


· The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.


· A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.


· Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.


· The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.


· Ants can live up to 16 years.


· In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.


· The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.


· Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.


· Coca-Cola was originally green.


· The most common name in the world is Mohammed.


· The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.


· The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.


· TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.


· Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!


· You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.


· It is impossible to lick your elbow.


· People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.


· It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.


· The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest


· tongue twister in the English language.


· If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.


· Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.