Miscellaneous

Facts, facts, and more facts!

Hey y'all!

     Here are some completely useless facts that I found hilariously intriguing:

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise 
• In space, you cannot cry because there is not gravity to make tears flow
• Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the Animal Kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy was 17 months and 11 days
• California consumes more bottled water than any other product
• In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens beat a race horse over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start also.
• A large flawless emerald is worth more than a large similarly flawless diamond
• Mexican free-tailed bats sometimes fly up to 2 miles high to feed or to catch tail-winds that carry them over long distances at speeds of more than 60mph
• It's estimated that millions of trees are planted by forgetful squirrels 
• In the "Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks
• In Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket
• A cat uses its whiskers to determine if space is to small to squeeze through 
• A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second
• A group of cows is called a 'murder'
• At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world
• The zorilla is the smelliest animal on the planet. It's anal glands can be smelled from half a mile away
• The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WW2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo
• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24hrs
• 99% of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s at medicine 
• Degringolade means to fall and disintegrate 
• The Amazon is the world's largest river, 3,890 miles (6,259km) long
• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave 
• A pound of houseflies contains more protein then a pound of beef
• A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't 
• Nepal is the only country that does't have a rectangular flag
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 (274km) miles per hour
• "Lassie" was played by a group of dogs: the main one was named Pal
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair
• The international telephone dialing code for Antartica is 672
• It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia 
• A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year
• Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump"
• There is no solid proof of who built the Taj Mahal
• Camel chew in a figure 8 pattern
• India has a Bill of Rights for cow
• Darts boards are made out of horse hair 
• The average life of a taste bud is 10 days A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
• A group of toads is called a knot

- Felicinda J.