AMAZING ANIMAL FACTS-----PART2

Poisonous birds
The only poisonous birds known are the three species of Pitohui from Papua new Guinea - the Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous the Rusty Pitohui P. ferrugineus and the Variable Pitohui P. kirhocephalus. The Hooded Pitohui is the deadliest. The skin and feathers contain almost the same homobatrachotoxin as the Poison Arrow Frogs.

Highest Flight
Some breeds of vultures can fly at altitudes as high as 36,900 feet.

 

Mosquitoes do not bite
Mosquitoes do not bite. They stab. A mosquito has no jaws, hence when attacking a victim, it pierces it with its long proboscis and sucks the blood up through it's nasal tube.

Cat's urine
A cat's urine glows under a black light.

Siberian Tiger
The SIBERIAN TIGER is the largest cat in the world. It weighs up to 300kg (660 lbs) and can eat 27.2 kg (60 lb) of meat at one mealtime.

Eelphant vs Mouse
A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it !!

360 degree vision
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

Owl's weight
If the great horned owl were to be totally stripped of its feathers, the naked bird would weigh less than its feathers.

Elephant smell
An elephant can smell water three miles away.

Japanese cranes
Because of their weight, which averages 22 pounds, Japanese cranes require a run of more than 30 feet to become airborne.

Ostriches kick
Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't Mess with them!

Ostrich egg
The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to

345 pounds.

Killer chocolate
Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.

Butterfly
Butterflies taste with their feet.

Chicken Population
There are more chickens than people in the world.

Crocodile eathing
A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.
Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

Smallest bird
The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards.

Ant's sleep.
Do you know that ants don't sleep. 

Polar bear
All polar bears are left handed.

Cat's jaws
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

Crocodile's tongue A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. Baby Panda At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

Jellyfish A jellyfish is 95 percent water!   Female lion hunting The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. Grizzly bear's speed The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!! Fastest dog The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago. Loudest sound At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. Cow's Milk A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. Blue whale's weight The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and it's tongue is as long as an elephant. Hippo's Babu The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air. Woodpecker A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. Zebra A zebra is white with black stripes. Rat can survive A rat can last longer without water than a camel can. Chimpanzee A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. Chameleon's tongue A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body. Zebra's stripes No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. The Butterfly Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES. Cockroach head cut A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! Cheetah meows A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).  Cheetah's speed A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour). Ears cleaning A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Blue Color Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. Donkey's eyes The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! The elephant The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! (Thankfully !!) http://www.l4laugh.com/Interesting-Facts/Animals-Facts.asp?thisPG=1

AMAZING WEIRD FACTS PART2

Weird Facts

Weird Things You Would Never Know!!

Butterflies taste with their feet.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than

all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal

ads for dating are already married.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch
every year because when it was built, engineers failed to
take into account the weight of all the
books that would occupy the building.

A snail can sleep for three years.

No word in the English language rhymes with

"MONTH".

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
never stop growing.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

All polar bears are left handed.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

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

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

"Go."   is the shortest complete sentence in the English
language.

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

 

 

 

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Weird Facts Of Human Body

50 Weird Facts About the Human Body

The Brain

Complex and poorly understood, the brain is what makes everything work properly. The body may be kept alive, but without the brain, a person can’t truly live. Here are some interesting and weird facts about the brain.

1. The brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.
2. Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.
3. 80% of the brain is water: Instead of being relatively solid, your brain 80% water. This means that it is important that you remain properly hydrated for the sake of your mind.
4. Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep.
5. Your brain operates on 10 watts of power: It’s true: The amazing computational power of your brain only requires about 10 watts of power to operate.
6. A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream. A high I.Q. can also fight mental illness. Some people even believe they are smarter in their dreams than when they are awake.
7. The brain changes shapes during puberty: Your teenage years do more than just change how you feel; the very structure of your brain changes during the teen years, and it even affects impulsive, risky behavior.
8. Your brain can store everything: Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.
9. Information in your brain travels at different speeds: The neurons in your brain are built differently, and information travels along them at different speeds. This is why sometimes you can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.

Your Senses

You might be surprised at the amazing things your various senses can accomplish.

10. Your smell is unique: Your body odor is unique to you — unless you have an identical twin. Even babies recognize the individual scents of their mothers.
11. Humans use echolocation: Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation. It is thought that those who are blind develop this ability to heightened effectiveness.
12. Adrenaline gives you super strength: Yes, with the proper response in certain situations, you really can lift a car.
13. Women smell better than men: Women are better than men at identifying smells.
14. Your nose remembers 50,000 scents: It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells.
15. Your hearing decreases when you overeat: When you eat too much food, it actually reduces your ability to hear. So consider eating healthy — and only until you are full.
16. Your sense of time is in your head: How you experience time is all about your perception. Some speculate that stress can help you experience time dilation. Apparently, time manipulation isn’t just for superheroes.

Reproduction

How we as a species reproduce offers all sorts of interesting weird facts. Here are some of the weirder things you might not know.

17. Your teeth are growing before birth: Even though it takes months after you are born to see teeth, they start growing about six months before you are born.
18. Babies are stronger than oxen: On a pound for pound basis, that is. For their size, babies are quite powerful and strong.
19. Babies always have blue eyes when they are born: Melanin and exposure to ultraviolet light are needed to bring out the true color of babies’ eyes. Until then they all have blue eyes.
20. Women might be intrinsically bi: There are sex studies that indicate that women might bisexual intrinsically, no matter how they class themselves, while men are usually either gay or straight.
21. Most men have regular erections while asleep: Every hour to hour and a half, sleeping men have erections — though they may not be aware of it.
22. Sex can be a pain reliever: Even though the “headache” excuse is often used to avoid sex, the truth is that intercourse can provide pain relief. Sex can also help you reduce stress.
23. Chocolate is better than sex: In some studies, women claim they would rather have chocolate than sex. But does it really cause orgasm? Probably not on its own.

Body Functions

The things our bodies do are often strange and sometimes gross. Here are some weird facts about the way your body functions.

24. Earwax is necessary: If you want healthy ears, you need some earwax in there.
25. Your feet can produce a pint of sweat a day: There are 500,000 (250,000 for each) sweat glands in your feet, and that can mean a great deal of stinky sweat.
26. Throughout your life, the amount of saliva you have could fill two swimming pools: Since saliva is a vital part of digestion, it is little surprise that your mouth makes so much of it.
27. A full bladder is about the size of a soft ball: When your bladder is full, holding up to 800 cc of fluid, it is large enough to be noticeable.
28. You probably pass gas 14 times a day: On average, you will expel flatulence several times as part of digestion.
29. A sneeze can exceed 100 mph: When a sneeze leaves your body, it does so at high speeds — so you should avoid suppressing it and causing damage to your body.
30. Coughs leave at 60 mph: A cough is much less dangerous, leaving the body at 60 mph. That’s still highway speed, though.

Musculoskeletal System

Find out what you didn’t know about your muscles and bones.

31. Bones can self-destruct: It is possible for your bones to destruct without enough calcium intake.
32. You are taller in the morning: Throughout the day, the cartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.
33. 1/4 of your bones are in your feet: There are 26 bones in each foot, meaning that the 52 bones in account for 25 percent of your body’s 206 bones.
34. It takes more muscles to frown than to smile: Scientists can’t agree on the exact number, but more muscles are required to frown than to smile.
35. When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles: Walking uses a great deal of muscle power — especially if you take your 10,000 steps.
36. Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body: Compared to its size, the tongue is the strongest muscle. But I doubt you’ll be lifting weights with it.
37. Bone can be stronger than steel: Once again, this is a pound for pound comparison, since steel is denser and has a higher tensile strength.

Unnecessary Body Parts

We have a number of body parts that are, well, useless. Here are some facts about the body parts we don’t actually need.

38. Coccyx: This collection of fused vertebrae have no purpose these days, although scientists believe it’s what’s left of the mammal tail humans used to have. It may be useless, but when you break your coccyx, it’s still painful.
39. Pinkie toe: There is speculation that since we no longer have to run for our dinner, and we wear sneakers, the pinkie toe’s evolutionary purpose is disappearing — and maybe the pinkie itself will go the way of the dodo.
40. Wisdom teeth: This third set of molars is largely useless, doing little beyond crowding the mouth and sometimes causing pain.
41. Vomeronasal organ: There are tiny (and useless) chemoreceptors lining the inside of the nose.
42. Most body hair: While facial hair serves some purposes, the hair found on the rest of body is practically useless and can be removed with few ill effects.
43. Female vas deferens: A cluster of dead end tubules near the ovaries are the remains of what could have turned into sperm ducts.
44. Male Uterus: Yeah, men have one too — sort of. The remains of this undeveloped female reproductive organ hangs on one side of the male prostate gland
45. Appendix: Yep, your appendix is basically useless. While it does produce some white blood cells, most people are fine with an appendectomy.

Random Weird Body Facts

Here are a few final weird facts about the human body.

46. Your head creates inner noises: It’s rare, but exploding head syndrome exists.
47. Memory is affected by body position: Where you are and how you are placed in your environment triggers memory.
48. You can’t tickle yourself: Go ahead. Try to tickle yourself.
49. Being right-handed can prolong your life: If you’re right-handed, you could live up to nine years longer than a lefty.
50. Only humans shed emotional tears: Every other animal that produces tears has a physiological reason for doing so.

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Amazing Human Facts

Human Facts

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.

There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 – 2.25 inches (3.8 – 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.)

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.

Children grow faster in the springtime.

The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.

The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.

The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat

It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.

The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).

Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

The pancreas produces Insulin.

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.

After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Fingernails grow faster than toenails.

A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.

Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.

After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.

If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.

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