Assorted Facts 7
According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.
According to a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other month.
According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years
Faye Wong received a 7 digit fee for recording 'eyes on me' and it took her about 4 hours.
A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
A peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 200 miles per hour.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour.
The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.
The highest flight by a bird was by a Ruppell's vulture at 37,000 feet. The bird hit a plane at this height.
The fastest bird in the world is the Peregrine Falcon, which can reach speeds in excess of two hundred miles per hour.
The flying fox of Africa has a wingspan of fifty inches!
Birds save energy by flying in a "V" formation.
The largest bird egg ever laid was laid millions of years ago by the Madagascar, or the elephant bird.
Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp.
Whooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months old.
Blue jays often forget where they hide winter supplies of food.
Sometimes birds show anger towards humans by taking out its feelings on other birds nearby, because they are too afraid to attack humans.
he Egyptian vulture uses stones to smash ostrich eggs.
Vultures can soar for hours without one beat of their wings.
The dipper bird builds nests behind waterfalls for protection.
When two lovebirds appear to be kissing, they are actually grooming each other with their bills to keep clean and neat.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
There are about 100 billion birds in the world, and about 6 billion of them make their homes in the United States.
Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.
Gorilla's have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints.
Snow Monkeys live in areas where the temperature is an average of -10C.
Unlike a frog a toad cannot jump.
There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection.
The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore.
The smallest frog is the "Brazilian baby frog", which is smaller than a dime.
The fire-bellied toad has a bright red belly that it displays to predators as a defense mechanism. It is also a warning that the toad's skin is poisonous.
The Spring peeper (a frog) can survive the winter season with 65% of its body water as ice.
In 1864, A Quebec farmer found a frog inside a hailstone.
Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.
Found in Argentina, the ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow.
The bee frog of Africa is no bigger than a bee.
The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day.
If the earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the earth.
More than 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.
99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water.
The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.
When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing-much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter.
The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm.
Most animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss.
Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day.
Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day.
Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw.
Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.
Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings.
You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand.
There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands.
The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees Celsius.
Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.
In the U.S., the milk production per dairy cow is approximately 12,000 pounds.
In Colorado, there are about 83,000 dairy cows.
Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months.
Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living.
On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day.
On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk.
A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day.
A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day.
Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.
Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.