Random Facts
All porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get
leprosy.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all
of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back
down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
gravity to swallow.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a
building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat
that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and
correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under UV light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both
front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the
horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver and purple.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again,
Sam".
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its
own weight and always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death.
Starfishes have no brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
There. Don't you feel better for knowing all of that?
All porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get
leprosy.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
otherwise it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all
of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back
down again.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
gravity to swallow.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a
building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat
that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight
floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and
correct itself.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II
killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
Cat's urine glows under UV light.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both
front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the
horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the
ground, the person died of natural causes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
silver and purple.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again,
Sam".
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its
own weight and always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death.
Starfishes have no brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
There. Don't you feel better for knowing all of that?
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mr_zero:
Ok but, dogs can look up.
jessikah:
holy shit that was fascinating