Male goats will pee on each other in order to attract mates

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Dalmatian puppies do not have any spots on them when they are born. They actually develop them as they get older

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Bats can detect food up to 18 feet away and what type of insect the food may be using their sense of echolocation

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At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour

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In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years

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Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have them on their skin.

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On average, there are 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

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During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In his whole life he obtained over one thousand patents.

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When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off.

The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly

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Bats are the only mammals that can fly

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The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse

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The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour

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When the are in danger, kangaroos will beat the ground loudly with their hind feet

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In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball

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In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom

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Houseflies always hum in the key of F.

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To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed.

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Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches can roar like lions.

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In gangster slang, a boxing match that is fixed is called a "barney."

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Elephant are one of the three mammals that undergo menopause – the other two being humpback whales and human females.

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People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose

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A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957

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On average, an American home has 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials

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Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate

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On average, 35 meters of hair fibre is produced on the adult scalp

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In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet

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In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes.

This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year

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Kangaroos use their tails for balance, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.

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On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner

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According to the myth, the Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years

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The study of twins is known as gemellology

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Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.

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Koala bears almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else.

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Because beavers’ teeth never stop growing, they must constantly gnaw on objects to keep them at a manageable length.

Their teeth would eventually grow into their brain if they didn’t maintain them.

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Ants never sleep and do not have lungs.

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There are one million ants for every human in the world.

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Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating.

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Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colors red, green and yellow.

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A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.

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You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.

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Giraffes have no vocal cords and their tongues are blue-black in color.

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Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

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Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.

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Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.

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The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph.3

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Pigs communicate constantly with one another; more than 20 vocalizations have been identified that pigs use in different situations, from wooing mates to saying, “I’m hungry!”

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French poodles actually originated in Germany.

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Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and their wings can beat at up to 80 times per second.

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The word "PEZ" comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ

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The duffel bag gets its name from the town of Duffel, Belgium, where the cloth used in the bags was originally sold.

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