:: Fun Facts ::

1. More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
2. Hippo milk is pink.
3. Women have a better sense of smell than men.
4. The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
5. Ice Cream is chinese food!
6. A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall!
7. Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!

8. A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

9. Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!

10. A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.

11. It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!

12. By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.

13. As a rule, 66 percent of people keep their eyes closed while kissing. The rest take pleasure in watching the emotions run the gamut on the faces of their partners.

14. Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.

15. Drivers kill more deer than hunters.

16. Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!

17. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

18. Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

19. 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.

20. Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.

21. The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.

22. The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
23. The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
24. Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!
25. The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
26. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
27. One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
28. One in three male motorists picks their nose while driving.
29. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
30. In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!
31. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
32. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
33. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
34. A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
35. It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
36. Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
37. A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
38. In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
39. The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
40. Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
41. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
42. A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
43. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
44. Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
45. The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
46. A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
47. It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
48. Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
49. Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
50. A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
51. Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
52. An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
53. Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
54. Lobsters have blue blood.
55. The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
56. Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
57. Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
58. The octopus does not have a blind spot.
59. The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
60. The cat brain weighs about 30g.
61. Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
62. A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to mark out its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail area and paws also carry the cat's scent.
63. The costliest cat ever is named Little Nicky, who cost his owner $50,000. He is a clone of an older cat.
64. The costliest cat ever is named Little Nicky, who cost his owner $50,000. He is a clone of an older cat.
65. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
66. A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
67. Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
68. Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.
69. Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.

70. Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.

71. Flies are deaf.

72. There are more chickens than people in the world.

74. The world's oldest crow is 118 years (estimated age).

75. The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day.

76. The smallest known dinosaur is Compsognathus.

77. The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.

78. Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.

79. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

80. Honeybees never sleep.

81. Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.

82. In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.

83. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

84. The most expensive cow in the world was sold $1.3 million.

85. If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white.

86. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!

87. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

88. The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!

89. Most domestic turkeys are so heavy they are unable to fly.

90. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.

91. Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.

92. The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.

93. The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.

94. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

95. If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse.

96. Starfish don't have brains.

97. Snails can live up to 15 years.

98. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

99. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

100. When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.