Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Amazing Facts

Amazing Facts
* The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth, fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
* The whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal (188 decibels).
* Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions.
* The sun is 3,30,330 times larger than the earth.
* Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed......or is that paws?
* A giraffe can clean its ears with its long tongue.
* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
* A human blinks over 10,000,000 times a year.
* A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
* 'GO' is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Monday, September 8, 2008

Amazing Facts

Amazing Facts
* The original name for the butterfly was flutterby.
* A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body.
* A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror,but monkeys can't
* A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
* About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
* A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
* The hippopotamus gives birth under water.
* A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
* A cat sees about six times better than a human at night.
* The female lion dose more than 90% of the hunting while the
male simply prefers to rest.
* A jellyfish is 95% water.
* At birth,a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about
four ounces.
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