Facts

• There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth. 
• The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year.
• There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world. 
• Well, there are 3,000 kinds of lice. Yes, it is the lice we are prone to get due to lack of hair hygiene. 
• This is a mind-boggling fact – for each of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying... 
• Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears. 
• The world has approximately one billion cattle, of which about 200 million belong to India. 
• The life of a housefly is only 14 days. 
• A dog was the first animal to up in space. 
• A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first animals to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of a dog known to mankind is the ‘Saluki’. 
• An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h.  

• Never get a camel angry, for he or she will spit at you.  
• There are crabs that are the size of a pea. There are known as ‘Pea Crabs’.  
• The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months. 
• Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people. 
• You do not need cotton buds to clean a giraffe ears. It can do so with its own 50cm-tongue. 
• Want to known the appetite of a South American Giant Anteater? Well it eats over 30,000 ants, per day. 
• The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer. 
• The Sea Horse is the slowest fish, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h. 
• The small car on the road is probably the size of the heart of a blue whale. 
• The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale. 
• The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Most lipstick contains fish scales

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib

Rats and horses can't vomit

A shrimp's heart is in their head

A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two week otherwise it will digest itself

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

A snail can sleep for three years

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Almonds are members of the peach family

One farmer feeds up to 90 people

94% of Canada's lands cannot be farmed

A cow can eat up to three suitcases full

of hay (20 kilograms) and drink up to a

bathtub full of water (75 litres) everyday

A mature Holstein weighs about 1,400 lbs

A cow chews her cud up to 8 hours each day

The average body temperature of a cow is 101.5°F

Hippo milk is pink

• Mature turkeys have more than 3,500 feathers.
• There are 47 different breeds of sheep in the U.S.
• Pork is the most widely eaten meat in the world.
• The average person consumes 584 pounds of dairy products a year.
• 160 degrees Fahrenheit is the correct cooking temperature to ensure safe and savory ground beef.
• Elevators in the Statue of Liberty use a soybean-based hydraulic fluid.
• Like snowflakes, no two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
• Twenty-nine cuts of beef meet government guidelines for lean.
• The average dairy cow produces seven gallons of milk a day, 2,100 pounds of milk a month, and 46,000 glasses of milk a year.
• Turkeys originated in North and Central America, and evidence indicates that they have been around for more than 10 million years.
• Agriculture employs more than 24 million American workers (17% of the total U.S. work force).
• Today's American farmer feeds about 155 people worldwide. In 1960, that number was 25.8.
• Raising beef cattle is the single largest segment of American agriculture.
• One pound of wool can make 10 miles of yarn. There are 150 yards (450 feet) of wool yarn in a baseball.
• Soybeans are an important ingredient for the production of crayons. In fact, one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons.
• The heaviest turkey ever raised weighed 86 pounds, about the size of an average third-grader.
• Cows have four stomachs and can detect smells up to six miles away!
• Cows are herbivores, so they only have teeth on the bottom.
• There are 350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
• Cows must give birth to a calf in order to produce milk.