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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

• Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

• A baby bat is called a pup.

• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

• It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.