Fun tudbits (strange things)

Both humans and chimpanzees have equal amounts of hair per given surface area. A chimp's is just heavier.
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You have a 1 in 3.000.000 chance of getting killed by a snake.
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In Massachusetts, it is illegal to feed ducks on Sunday between the hours of 5am and 12pm while humming.
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In the town of Blythe, Ca., It is illegal to wear cowboy boots on Main Street if you do not own at least 5 head of cattle.
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In the coastal provinces of Canada it is illegal to shoot whales from a moving automobile.
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If an average man had a metabolism comparable to that of a hummingbird he would have to eat 285 pounds of hamburger every day to maintain his weight.
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Turtles can recognize faces. They are one of the few reptiles that can be trained to do "tricks".
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The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight.
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In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
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The smallest fish in the world is the Trimattum Nanus the Chagos Archipelago. It measures 0.33 inches. It broke the record of the so- called "sinarapan" of Buhi, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
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The only marsupial with a pouch on its back is the bandicoot.
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Ferrets sleep for about 20 hours a day.
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The opening to the cave in which a bear hibernates is always on the north slope.
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Bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea decorate their courting grounds with everything from beetle wings to car keys.
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Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct.
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Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.
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Cockroaches & Lobsters are kissing cousins.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
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Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal and while the mongoose hunts during the day.
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A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
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All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
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A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
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A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
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According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.
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All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
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Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
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At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
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George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
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In 1888, an estimated 300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for fertilizer.
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The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
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Although sharks are believed to be animals that never get sick and that they are immune to every known disease including cancer. This is simply not true. Sharks do get cancer. Cancer is far less common in sharks than in other ocean creatures, but they do still get it.

The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.
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The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
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There is no such fish as a "sardine." Canned sardines are generally young herring.
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You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
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The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
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Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
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Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
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Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
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Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

Mr. Snuffleupagas' first name was Alyoisus.

The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

The name of the dog from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is Max.

Goat's and octopus' eyes have rectangular pupils.

A robin's (the bird) egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow. Don't try this at home please!

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.

Armadillos can walk underwater.

Starfish don't have brains.

Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

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

Most armadillos seen dead on the road did not get hit by the wheels. When an armadillo is frightened it jumps straight into the air.

The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - in fact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.

The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.

The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile".

Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."

The dalmatian dog originate from Dalmatian coast of Croatia.

Felix the Cat is the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

The pH of cow's milk is 6.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

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