Giraffes have no vocal chords. The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Camels chew in a figure-of-eight pattern. Butterflies taste with their feet. All
polar bears are left-handed. A group of herons is called a siege. A group of jellyfish
is called a smack. A group of owls is called a parliament. According to
experts, whale songs rhyme. A snail can sleep for three years. A dog was once the
King of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD. In 1939, a shower of
tiny frogs fell on the English town of Trowbridge. The very first bomb dropped by
the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin
Zoo. An ostrich?s eye is bigger than its brain. |