Assorted Facts 8
A full grown horse's intestines are approximately 89 feet long.
Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour.
Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest.
Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.
If a horse rests it head on your shoulder it means the horse trusts you.
When you hold your hand out to a horse and the horse comes over and blows out warm air onto the palm of your hand it normally means that the horse wants to be friends with you.
Elephants have a slower pulse of 27 and for a canary it is 1000!
The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.
An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
Adult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is done to either giraffe.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water.
At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center.
At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.
In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee.
Elephants have been known to learn up to 60 commands.
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
An elephant's trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water.
An elephant's tooth can weight as much as three kilograms.
An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.
An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
The only predator that polar bears have are humans.
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.
The term "honeymoon" is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.
The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon.
The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting.
Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away.
An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day; that's four percent of the elephant's body weight!
Uranus' axis is at 97 degrees. which means that it orbits on its side. (Most of the planets spin on an axis nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic but Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic.)
The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
Mercury is the only planet whose orbit is coplanar with its equator. Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.
Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. Although it has a circumference of 280,000 miles compared with Earth's 25,000 Jupiter manages to make one turn in 9 hours and 55 minutes.
The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
Octopuses have 3 hearts.
A goldfish can live up to 40 years.
The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!
Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.
The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.
The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds.
The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow.
A Giant squid's eye can be as big as a basketball.
A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping.
A fall of 30 feet can be survived my most cats.
Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marion's tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years).
The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins.
The saying 'once in a blue moon' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month. The last two occurred in January & March 1999. The next one isn't until the end of 2001.
The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured.
The Earths core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.
Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling.
Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface.
Starfish can have up to 16 arms!
The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!
The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.
When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black "ink".
27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.
Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.
Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.
When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.
The moon weighs 81 billion tons.