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A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came -- head to toe.
Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother. They were both deaf.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
All of the officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed that the book symbolized their cause. Both revolts were defeated.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Gerald Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee posthumously of all crimes of treason.
Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on the radio newscast about the wreck. The Professor's real name was Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann's last name was Summers and Mrs. Howell's maiden name was Wentworth.
Halloween took place in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois but almost all the cars in the film had California license plates.
Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."

June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll", was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.
King Kong is the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) released the same year (1933).
Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply ' if you were my wife, I would drink it!'
Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors.
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.

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http://www.weird-websites.com/justweird/weird-facts.htm

That link should take you to these and a bunch more facts.

I got these from a website, not research.

again, i got this from a website, it doesn't mean that I agree with all of it. i just thought it was interesting

-An average dairy cow produces four times its body weight in manure each year.

-Kiwis are the only bird that hunts by smell.

-A birds eye keeps everything in focus at all times.

-Elvis had a pet monkey named Scatter.

-A sheep trained to turn the lights on and off will leave them them on 82% of the time.

-A blind chameleon will still change color to match its surroundings.

-All dogs except the Chow have a pink tongue, the Chow's tongue is bluish black.

-Nine out of ten extinct species were birds.

-Lions sleep 17 hours per day.

-Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span.

-Mouse sex only lasts five seconds.

-Florida officals recieve 8,000 complaints each year about alligators.

-Pigeons have three sets of eyelids.

-Male monkeys go bald just as men do.

-Giraffes have no vocal cords, the communicate with their tails.

-About one third of all species of snakes are venomous.

-A snail can sleep for three years.

-Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

-All polar bears are left handed.

-The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

-You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

-A blue whales testicles are the size of a family car.

-Robins eat three miles of earth worms in a year.

-An oyster changes sex several times during its life.

-Male monkeys loose their hair the same way men do.

-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.

-Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.

-Skunks can accurately spray their fluid up to ten feet.

-A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

-Sheep can survive up to two weeks buried in show drifts.

-A slug has four noses.

-A turtle can breath through its butt.

-An ant can detect movement through five centimeters of earth.

-A hippo can open it's mouth wide enouth to fit a four foot child inside.

-Bats always exit a cave to the left.

-A crocodile can't move it's tongue.

-Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.

-Jackrabbits got their name because their ears look like a donkey's (Jackass).

-Rabbits and horses cannot vomit.

-If birds could sweat they wouldn't be able to fly.

-Sloths sneeze slowly. They also give birth upside down.... slowly.

-Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds.

-A whales heart beats about once every 6 and a half seconds.

-The average American Bald Eagle weighs about 9 pounds.

-A chicken's top speed is 9 mph.

-A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.

-Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth.

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The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

-Lobsters like to eat lobster.

-To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000.

-Crocodiles can't move their tongues.

-Wolves could bark like dogs, they don't because they don't want to.

-An adult crocodile can go two years without eating.

-A roadrunner purrs when it is content.

-A cow has four stomachs.

-The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.

-Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizzard of Oz.

-The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

-A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds.

-A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.

Both gorillaz and housecats purr.

-A hibernating bear can go as long as 6 months without a bathroom break.

-The only time a turkey whistles is when it is panicking.

-Whales and Buffalos both stampede.

-The top speed of a pigeon in flight is 90 mph.

-Squirrels cannot see the color red.

-Chimpanzees will hunt ducks if given the opportunity.

-Sheep snore.

-A group of jellyfish is called a "smack."

-One humped camels run faster than two humped camels.

-Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel hair.

-Emus cannot walk backwards.

-Camel's milk does not curdle.

-Armadillos can catch malaria.

-The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil.

-Black sheep have a better sense of smell then white sheep.

-The English Sparrow is not a sparrow and it comes from Africa, not England.

-Baboons cannot throw overhand.

-Lions are the only cats that live in packs.

To get a gallon of milk, it takes about 345 squirts from a cow's utter.

-A warthog has only 4 warts, all of which are on its head.

-The penalty for stealing a rabbit in 19th-century england was seven years in prison.

-Even bloodhounds cannot smell the difference between two identical twins.

-Cows and cats both get hairballs.

-Camels are born without humps.

-Anteaters can flick their tongues 160 times a minute.

I hope you enjoyed my fact files, I'll post some more in awhile

Answer 1

I love to read wierd facts, they are sometimes interesting. Thanks for posting. Heres a few more I knew, sorry if you posted it already.
-you lose more calories eating celery than you get.
-hummingbirds fly backwards
-tigers have striped skin
-polar bears have black skin and clear fur
-apple seeds are poisonous

Answer 2

This is cool stuff! I'm horrified to admit that I really enjoyed reading the Gilligan's Island trivia: "Yes, yes, it's great that blue whales have huge scrota - but wow, Gilligan's first name was Willy? Dang! Who would have thought it?"

Answer 3

a few I might disagree with; mostly believable.
I don't think a cock a roach can live that long, I've never seen a headless one.
Though a hard working adlut may lose 4 gallons of water, some of that is thru expiration and urination, not all sweating.

Answer 4

Silly, you email to everyone in your address book and annoy them. I however love lists like this.

Answer 5

I knew some of them, but thanx for the info =)

Answer 6

Thats good !

All the questions you were dying to ask but no one knew the answers

Answer 7

thanks, i actually took the time to read everything. there u go, so click this as the best answer and no the one above this or below this, cos i really need the points to be upgraded to level 2 , so i can serve you better

Answer 8

wow you must have a lot of time on your hands to research all this..then again i have toomuch time on mine to be answering them

Answer 9

nice info keep it coming

Answer 10

HOLY CRAP! how long did it take you to write that?