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One 15 foot great white shark was found with 200 plus crabs in its stomach.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you eat bananas.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
The penalty for killing a cat 4,000 years ago in Egypt was death.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
Ants don't sleep.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
A *bleep*roach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
The American alligator is a member of the crocodile family.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
Black Widow Spiders can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.
Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
Yak milk is pink in color.
Iguanas can stay under water for 28 minutes.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
If a dog licks you with a straight tongue, he's saying "I Love You."
Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
A rat lasts longer without water than a camel.
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad.
Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people. Wow.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
Porcupines float in water.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Cat pee glows under a black-light.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year.
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year.
Rice paper does not have any rice in it.
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word.
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.
In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday.
In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.
In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing.
An elephant was hanged for murder.
One chicken survived without a head for 18 months.
Breakdance Was Invented By Soviet Army.
A stick is one of the most fun toys for kids.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
Mario, of Super Mario Bros. fame, appeared in the 1981 arcade game, Donkey Kong. His original name was Jumpman, but was changed to Mario to honor the Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali.
The Australian $5 to $100 notes are made of plastic.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
Children grow faster in the springtime.
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun.
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
Coca-Cola was originally green.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
After eating, a housefly barfs its food and then eats it again.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is.
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because farting in a spacesuit damages them.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
More money is printed daily for the Monopoly game than by the U.S. Treasury.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eyes."
Soda water does not contain soda.
Some Eskimos have been known to use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
There is a town in Texas called 'Ding Dong.'
The Cat pee one and the Thomas Edison one made me lol.
I'm adding more.
1.Was chewing gum invented 9000 years ago?or maybe it was something else?
2.You said the one with a name called Muhammed two times.But both were spelled differently.
Muhammed
Mohammed