General Knowledge

General Knowledge
* Ants never sleep.*
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.*
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
* The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.*
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.*
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.*
The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs.
The Latin name was Canariae insulae - “Island of Dogs.”*
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.*
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.*
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.*
A baby bat is called a pup.*
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.*
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.* It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.*
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.*
The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.*
Cats respond most readily to names that end in an “ee” sound.* A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.*
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.*
Snakes are immune to their own poison.*
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
* Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.*
The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).*
Most lipstick contains fish scales.*
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.* Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.*
A shrimp’s heart is in their head.*
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.