- Birds do not urinate.
- Horses and cows sleep while standing.
- The bat is the only mammal capable of flight. Its leg bones are so thin that it cannot walk.
- Even when a snake’s eyes are closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
- Despite their fluffy white fur, Polar Bears have black skin.
- The average housefly lives only 2 to 3 weeks.
- For every human, there are approximately one million ants.
- A small amount of alcohol on a scorpion will drive it insane and cause it to sting itself to death.
- Alligators and sharks can live for up to 100 years.
- A honeybee has two stomachs: one for honey and one for food.
- Elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
- A blue whale’s heart is the size of a car.
Blue whales are the largest creatures to ever roam the Earth.
- A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
- A snail can sleep for up to 3 years.
- The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly up to 106 mph. The peregrine falcon is even faster at 108 mph.
- A cow produces nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- The leech has 32 brains.
- The average outdoor cat lives only 3 years, while indoor-only cats can live 16 years or longer.
- Sharks are immune to every disease, including cancer.
- A mosquito’s proboscis has 47 sharp edges to help it cut through skin and even protective clothing.
- The human brain has a memory capacity of over 2.5 million petabytes, equivalent to 2,500,500 gigabytes.
Knowledge is Power!
