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A cat in a hurry can sprint at about thirty-one miles per hour.

Small differences in height can make a difference to the weather. Security guards on the top of the Empire State Building, New York, were able to make snowballs on November 3,1958 while rain fell on 34th Street 1,250 feet below.

A cat will almost never meow at another cat. Cats use this sound for humans.

A 15 year old cat has probably spent ten years of its life sleeping.

One billion seconds is about 32 years.

The material to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of 1,000 elephants.

Lutetia was the ancient name of Paris, France.

The average human eye can distinguish about 500 different shades of gray.

The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking. If it is less elastic, it is not healthy.

Each square inch of human skin consists of 19 million cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands, and 19,000 sensory cells.

Dogs' eyes have large pupils and a wide field of vision, making them really good at following moving objects.

Dogs also see well in fairly low light.

Who first thought of using dogs to guide blind people? At the end of World War I, the German government trained the first guide dogs to assist blind war veterans.

Female chickens, or hens, need about 24-26 hours to produce one egg. Thirty minutes later they start the process all over again. In addition to the half-hour rests, some hens rest every three to five days and others rest every 10 days.

Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick.

The first vending machines in the US dispensed chewing gum and were installed in New York City train platforms in 1888.

After being petted, sometimes you will see a cat cleaning himself. He is trying to get the "person" smell off.

"Cats can successfully navigate through mazes in complete darkness, but lose that ability if their whiskers are cut off (they wander aimlessly)."

One out of every three people can't snap their fingers.

If the name of every insect were printed in an average-size book, it would take about 6,000 pages to list them all. There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

"A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail."

Julianna Margulies, Emmy-winning dramatic actress of NBC's ER, has a gifted father. He was an ad executive who is credited for writing the famous Alka Seltzer "Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz" jingle some years back.

"Experiments show that softly talking to kittens as soon as they are born results in their growing up to be more confident and independent adults."

Medical experts have observed that people who stutter rarely do when they are alone or talking to a pet.

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during their life span.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood, we have only 206 in our bodies.

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

"Houseflies watch each other constantly and follow each other to food sources. That's why there are always so many enjoying the same food."

"J'embrasse mon chat sur la bouche" is French for, "I kiss my cat on the lips." (??? Well, that's pretty useless information.)

The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.

A bee has 5,000 nostrils.

"If I Had a Hammer" â?" Chuck Berry, Art Garfunkle, Harrison Ford, Matt Le Blanc, and Robert Redford worked as carpenters early in their careers.

"Only humans and horses have hymens."

A whale's heart beats only nine times a minute.

"Squirrels are immune to rabies."

"Don't give kitty raw egg white. Raw egg whites contain an enzyme that breaks down the vitamin biotin, which is essential to cat health."

"Giraffes do not have vocal chords."

"One of the things that separate Flies (Diptera) from other flying insects are their wings. Flies are the only insects that have only two. All other insects have four wings."

"A parrot's beak can close with a force of 350 pounds per square inch."

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ShelleyG

dang some of those were neat to learn LOL

sheasherry

very interesting............

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sheasherry