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-female lions do 90% of the hunting
-you speak about 4800 words per day
-the underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog
-we spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights
-48% of astronauts experience motion sickness
-90% of your body is hydrogen, ocygen, carbon, and nitroge,
-smokey the bear's zip code is 20252
-90% of bird species are monogamous, only 3% of mammal species are
-camels have 3 eyelids
-the red sea is not red
-the second full moom in one months is called a blue moon
-we have about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left
-you breathe 13 pints of air per minute
-the hawiian alphebet has only 12 letters
-beavers can hold their breath of 45 minutes
-more people are killed by donkeys than by plane crashes
-oysters can change from male to female and back again
-you blink about 25000 times a day, or 50,000 if you count each eye seperately
-there are 238,500 smiths in the U.S.
-in the 1800's the united states had 1,2,3 and 20 cent coins
-the shortest war lasted 38 minutes
-nyc's central park is almost twice as large as monaco
-you have enough red blood cells to circle the planet
-the oldest goldfish lived 14,975 days
-shirly temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday
-slugs have 4 noses
-the smalles number spelled with the letter 'a' is one thousand
-the english language makes over 600,000 words out of 26 letters
-the only 15 letter word that you can write without repeating any letters is uncopyrightable
-the average human eats at least one spider each night while sleeping
-the longest word you can type on a keyboard on the top row is 'typewriter'
-if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
-if you produce flatulence consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
-the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
-a pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
-banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
-humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
-on average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
-the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
-you can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
-every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
-you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
-right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
-in ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
-a crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
-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.
-polar bears are left handed
-the catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
-the flea can jump 350 times its body length
-a cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
-the male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. the female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
-male lions mate over 50 times a day.
-butterflies taste with their feet.
-elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
-a cat's urine glows under a black light.
-an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
-starfishes haven't got brains.
-in the U.S., one company markets red contact lenses at 20 cents a pair to be used by chickens. supposedly, the red tint makes the chickens feel happier so they lay more eggs
-green is the horny color.