Did You Know?

Few Facts Of Life:


-Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

-A new born kangaroo is about one inch in length.

-oxygen,carbon,hydrogen and nitrogen make up to 90% of our body.

-Fish are the only verterbrates that outnumber birds.

-A cocoroach can live for several weeks without its head.

-Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

-Ants do not sleep.

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

-Owl is the only bird,which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

-Polar bear can look clumsy and slow but during a chase on ice,can reach 25 miles/hr of speed.

-Elephant teeth can weigh as much as nine pounds.

-The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

-On an average,people fear spiders more than they do death.

-The humming bird,the loon,the swift,the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

-The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2200 people.

-The poisonous copper head snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

-A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

-The world's largest rodent is the Capybara.It is an amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig;it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

-Tortoise has very sharp teeth.It can rip open the stomach of a whale with its teeth.

-ostrich eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

-Demetrio was a mammal like reptile with a snail on its back.This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

-Shape of the backbone is important to have sufficient breathing.

-German shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

-Tapeworms range in size from about .04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

-A female mackeral lays about 5,00,000 eggs at one time.

-Shark cannot see;they are sensitive to sound.

-Crane sleeps standing on one leg.

-Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

-No matter how cold it gets,gasoline will not freeze.

-Snails have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.

-A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

-A blue whale can eat as much as three tonnes of food everyday,but at the same time can live without food for six months.