* A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.



* The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
* A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.



* It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.



* Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.



* Despite man’s fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.



* There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.



* Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.



* Cat’s urine glows under a black light.



* The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.



* It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.



* Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.



* It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.



* Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.



* Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.



* Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.



* A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.



* The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.



* There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.



* The world’s largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.



* The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.



* The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.



* The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.



* A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.



* Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.



* The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.



* Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird’s chirp or a dog’s yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.



* The underside of a horse’s hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.



* The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.



* Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.



* The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.



* To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.



* 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.



* Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.



* The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.



* A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.



* Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.



* The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.



* Ants can live up to 16 years.



* In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.



* The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog’s.



* Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.



* Coca-Cola was originally green.



* The most common name in the world is Mohammed.



* The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.



* The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.



* TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.



* Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!



* You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.



* It is impossible to lick your elbow.



* People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.



* It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.



* The “sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.



* If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.



* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



* A snail can sleep for three years.



* All polar bears are left handed.



* American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.



* Butterflies taste with their feet.



* Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.



* In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.



* On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.



* Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination’ and ‘bump’.



* Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.



* The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.



* The electric chair was invented by a dentist.



* The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.



* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.



* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.



* Most lipstick contains fish scales.



* Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different