Animals facts - 2

1. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient! 

2. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name. 

3. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite. 

4. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle. 

5. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe. 

6. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp. 

7. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old. 

8. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979. 

9. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water. 

10. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. 

11. Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes. 

12. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

13. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted. 

14. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing. 

15. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year. 

16. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot. 

17. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal. 

18. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Animals facts

1. Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year. 

2. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed. 

3. The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight. 

4. A squid has 10 tentacles.

5. A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.

6. When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.

7. The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.

8. The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.

9. A scallop has 35 blue eyes.

10. A swan is the only bird with a penis

11. The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.

12. The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

13. The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.

14. Zebras can't see the color orange.

15. There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.

16. The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.

17. A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

18. The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than those found in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to breakdown as opposed to the hour that it takes to break down cow milk.