useless information

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Anyone have useless but informative bits of info they want to share about animals, insects, fish etc?

I will give this a kick start...


There are more chickens than people in the world

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

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The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world (as big as hubcaps)

Elephants can't jump, every other mammal can

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death

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8O Did you know?


If the temperature of an alligator's mound is 30 C, all the hatchlings will be females. If it is 33 C, they are all male.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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Here is a few more to ponder over....


Cat's urine glows under a black light.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

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Crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live. That means if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.


It takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.


Pigs can become alcoholics.

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Took my ostrich egg over an hour to hard boil.....and even then it really was not done.
Tried it several times ~ yuck. Never turned out.

Pigs are a source of nearly 40 drugs and pharmaceutials such as insulin.

Pig Heart Valves are surgically implanted in humans to replace defective heart valves.

A pigs squeel can range from 110-115 decibles. A concord jet is usually under 112 decibles.

Pigs are not dirty. They can not sweat, so they roll in mud to keep cool

A mature pig has 44 teeth

Pigs are 4th on the intelligence list. (humans are first, primates second, third is dolphin)

Pigs dont have fleas because a pigs skin is too thick

Carol