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Some interesting facts you should know

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Some interesting facts you should know

Birds don’t urinate; while horses and cows sleep while standing up.

The bat is the only mammal that can fly, the bat has thin leg bones that it cannot walk.

Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

Despite the white, fluffy appearance of the Polar Bear’s fur, it actually has black skin.

The average housefly has a life span of 2 to 3 weeks, while alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.

For every human in the world, there are one million ants.

A small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

A honeybee has two stomachs, one for honey, and one for food.

Elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a car.

Also, blue whales are the largest creatures to ever roam the earth, and they certainly have the phallus to match, they have the largest penis in the animal kingdom ranging between 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) to 3 metres (9.8 ft) and a diameter of 30 centimetres (12 in) to 36 centimetres (14 in). Each of its testicles alone can weigh up to 150 pounds and can ejaculate gallons of sperm in a single go.

The cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.

When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, and they try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph. (Peregrine falcon is actually 390km/hr or 108mph)

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

The leech has 32 brains.

The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live for sixteen years or longer.

Sharks don’t get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.

A mosquito’s proboscis has 47 sharp edges on its tip to help it cut through skin and even protective layers of clothing.

The human brain has a memory space of over 2.5 million petabytes which is 2,500,500 gigabytes.

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