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A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.
A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.
A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.
A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.
A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.
A mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air
A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.
A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.
A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.
A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.
A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.
A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base -by any means.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.
 | A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day. |
A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.
A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.
A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.
A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.
A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pineapple is a berry.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.
A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.
A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
A Red Giant (a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
A scrum in rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing the forward position on both teams.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.
A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.
A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A ton of potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are an important source for commercial alcohol.
A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.
A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.
A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth
A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.
A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags
A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.
A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.
A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.
A women's heart beats faster than men.
A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome". Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
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