Amazing Facts You Should Know

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• 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.

• Ants don't sleep.

• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

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• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

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Snakes are immune to their own poison.

• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

• A shrimp's heart is in their head.

• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

• 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.