Birds don’t urinate.
Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin
The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
Male mosquitoes do not bite, only female mosquito bites.
For every human in the world there are one million ants.
For every person there are roughly 200 million insects.
Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
A honeybee has two stomachs- one for honey, one for food.
A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
Great white Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106 mph.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. It then grows inside its mother’s bag.
Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
The leech has 32 brains.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand.
The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
Goat’s eyes have rectangular pupils.
The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Elephants can smell water 3 miles away.
Snails can grow new eyes.
A snail only mates once in a lifetime.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
Many fish can change s.ex during the course of their lives.
Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female s.ex organs.
We humans share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimpanzee.
A pig's orgasm can last up to 30 minutes.
A snake can smell its prey 5 kilometers away, and proceed towards the direction of smell.
The egrets(Lekeleke) can never be eaten by crocodile. the egret feed on leftover meat in the crocodile's mouth, thereby serving as toothpick.
The kiwi is the only bird that can fly backwards.
MALE HONEY BEES COMMIT INTIMATE SUICIDE!!!
The male honey bee (called the drone ) lives for one purpose only - to mate with the queen - and he will die in the process of doing so
Polar bears cannot run for too long; if they do, they will overheat and die.
Another interesting fact about sharks is that they never stop swimming from the day they are born till they die. if they stop swimming they drown. ironic isn't it
Lightning and thunder both happen at the same time but because light travels faster than sound, we see the lightning first and the sound (thunder) comes later.
A typical adult human skeleton consists of 206 bones, But a baby is born with approximately 270 bones.
Cockroaches can survive the radiation of a nuclear blast.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
A chameleon can move its eye in two directions at the same time -weird!
The middle fingernail grows faster than any other nail.
A piece of paper cannot be folded into halves more than seven times.
WEIRD BUT TRUE: INTERESTING FACTS YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
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