The Blood of grasshopper is not red, but white.
In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
Elephants are only animals that can not jump.
Only male canaries can sing.
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about sixty feet.
Tarantula's can survive 2.5 years without food.
Crocodiles carry their young in their mouths.
Bulls can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.
Whales can't swim backwards.
The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
The Grammy Awards were introduced to counter the threat of rock music. In the late 1950s, a group of record executives were alarmed by the explosive success of rock 'n roll, considering it a threat to "quality" music.
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