* The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow
undisturbed on its fur!
* Cat urine glows under a black-light!
* The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
* The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
* Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills
in Ireland!
* A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
* Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
* The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all
four feet at all times!
* Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
* A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
* Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
* A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child
inside!
* A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
* Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!
* Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin.
Today it's known as Tennessee!
* The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940
billion billion metric tons)!
* A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies
from starvation!
* Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
* The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
* It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!
* One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
* The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal
per year!
* It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in
Omaha, Nebraska!
* you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you
only have 206!
* Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
* Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
* The state of Florida is bigger than England!
* There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
* In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing
striped suits
* 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!