AMAZING FACTS!!!

[ucheogini]

Amazing facts- did u know dat mosquitoes hav teeth? Oh Yes,they do,as a matter of fact they have 47 teeths.

Amazing facts- did u know dat mosquitoes do not only  bite humans,they bite birds also
. Oh Yes, they bite humans more often because they can track human scents better.

A giraffe can clean its ears
with its 21-inch tongue!

Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.
( ssshhhh....yeah souds unreal but its true )

Did you know a Baby Lion is called a Cub? And a group of chicken is called a flock.

[ucheogini]

The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English.

All the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise,except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter per second.

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

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

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

[ucheogini]

India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

It is impossible to lick your
elbow. ( i know you  re gonna try this !!! )

[ucheogini]

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
The tongue of a chameleon is twice the length of its body.
The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.
A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
 Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.
When young, Black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.
 A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
Girrafes cant cough.

[ucheogini]

In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight times faster than an Olympic sprinter.
 The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin.
About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.
 Camels are born without humps.
Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to copulate.
 Crocodiles are colour blind.
 Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.
Dogs are colour-blind.
 Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

[ucheogini]

A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds.
The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.
When Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a 'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.

[ucheogini]

The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an elephant.
A dog has elbows.
Whales can't swim backwards.
Penguins can jump over 6 feet.
An Elephant has the world's largest penis, weighing about 27 kg.
Crocodiles are responsible for over a thousand deaths a year by the Banks of the Nile.
The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.
Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.
A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.
Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.

[ucheogini]

Some snakes can take as long as twenty-four hours to copulate.
Polar bears can run as fast as 40 km/h.
A python is capable of devouring a pig whole.
The ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly two hundred times a second.
 Japan's pampered Kobe cattle regularly get to drink beer.
Cats were a sacred animal in Ancient Egypt, and when they died,people shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of respect..
An Anencephalous creature has no brain.
Within a pride of lions, 90% of the hunting is done by the females.
A large whale needs more than 2 tonnes of food a day.
Whales must move their entire body to change their line of sight.

[Western]

This is real BIOLOGY no be moi-moi

[Ijecs]

@uche make sure u will try and pronounce the fear of long words when i c u next year .when i was trying to pronounce it ,it sounded like latin.

[Ijecs]

@uche make sure u will try and pronounce the fear of long words when i c u next year .when i was trying to pronounce it ,it sounded like latin.

[justice]

very educative and amazing keep the boat rocking.

[Nigeria Scholar]

@ Uche, dat is a gr8 job u're doin right here. U av openned my eyes 2 sum certain facts dat i'av been blind 2. We al appretiate wht u ar doin. Keep dem cumin.

[ucheogini]

u re welcum.

[ucheogini]

@uche make sure u will try and pronounce the fear of long words when i c u next year .when i was trying to pronounce it ,it sounded like latin.

No wahala babe.

[embassy4uall]

hmmmmmn!

[ucheogini]

The youngest pope was 11 years old.
Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
 Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th.
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it. You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness, she declared that she bathed once every three months.
When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns.

[ucheogini]

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

[machina]

 really amazing! ......... but being facts, is still pending...........

[ucheogini]

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath .
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Right handed people live, on average, 9 years longer than left-handed people.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
 One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
 Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The eye of an Ostrich is bigger than its brain.
Turkey is the only country that has its capital city lying on two continents.