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Television
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It To Beaver.
Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
The Les Nessman character on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati wore a Band-Aid
in every episode, either on himself, his glasses, or his clothing.
Animals
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
A duck's quack doesn't echo.1
A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Camel's milk does not curdle
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Cats urine glows under a black light.
Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of
arms for that reason.
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass
out from sheer
terror.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
All porcupines float in water.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Humans, dolphins, and pygmy monkeys are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous
spider?
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Some lions mate over fifty times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That is like a human jumping the
length of a
football field.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of
humans.
So much that they could be confused at a crime scene.
The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years
before
the house cat
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