Useless Information
Animals

• Dogs will walk around a spot befor they lay down b/c when there ansestors wanted to lay down they had to flatten the grass around them to make a bed. This is an instint that dog's still have.
  
  
• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
  
  
• A ducks quack does not echo.
  
  
• 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
  
  
• Elephants are the only Mammals that can't jump.
  
  
• Polar bears are left handed.
  
  
• Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
  
  
• Rats can't vomit.
  
  
• The giraffe has a black tongue which is 14 inches long.
  
  
• Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
  
  
• The snail mates only once in it's entire life.
  
  
• You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.
  
  
• Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.
  
  
• An oyster can change it's sex a number of times during its life.
  
  
• Some lions mate 50 times a day.
  
  
• All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
  
  
• A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
  
  
• A starfish can turn its stomach inside out. Starfish's have no brains.
  
  
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
  
  
• A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
  
  
• Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs have about 10.
  
  
• Rhinos are part of the same family as horses.
  
  
• A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
  
  
• A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
  
  
• Sharks are immune to cancer.
  
  
• The oldest goldfish lived for 14,795 days.
  
  
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room it will turn white (eventually).
  
  
• The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultra-violet light.
  
  
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
  
  
• Hamsters blink one eye at a time.
  
  
• Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners or their eyes.
  
  
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  
  
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
  
  
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
  
  
• A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
  
  
• Kangaroos and emus cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
  
  
• The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly.
  
  
• A cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
  
  
• A Cheetah at full speed takes strides of 8 meters.
  
  
• An elephant can smell water 3 miles away.
  
  
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  
  
• Ants can live completely submerged underwater for up to 2 days.
  
  
• The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.
  
  
• A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
  
  
• When possums are "playing possum" they're not playing - they are actually passed out from sheer terror.
  
  
• The underside of a horses hoof is called a frog.
  
  
• Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
  
  
• Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes.
  
  
• Female lions do 90% of the hunting.
  
  
• Hippopotamuses break wind through their mouths.
  
  
• Armadillos can be house broken.
  
  
• Armadillos can have up to four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
  
  
• Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
  
  
• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so that the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its' forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
  
  
• Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
  
  
• A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.
  
  
• Minnows have teeth in their throat.
  
  
• Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
  
  
• Swans are the only birds with a penis.
  
  
• A whale's penis is called a dork.
  
  
• Hippopotamus means river horse.
  
  
• It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.
  
  

  
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