A woman called police when she discovered an upside down turtle on her front lawn at 11 a.m. June 1. The officer told her to turn the turtle right side up. She did but called back to report the turtle had no arms, legs or a head. The officer told her not to worry, and the turtle fled in an unknown direction before police arrived.

A man wearing a sweatshirt with the hood pulled tightly over his head and a mask covering all but his eyes pounded on the front door of the Security Federal Savings Bank scaring the employees inside. After several attempts to push open the door he fled. It was a "pull" open door.

Officials at the Pickaway Correctional Institute in Ohio stopped two cars that drove into a restricted area. After running a check on the license plates and learning both cars were stolen, they arrested the two men and the two young girls who turned out to be runaways. According to authorities the two men had driven onto the grounds to show the two girls where they had once spent time.

A young man, 19, broke into a glue factory in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and began sniffing the glue he was stealing. In the process of being overcome by the fumes and collapsing he upset a large tank of glue. When he finally came to he found himself stuck to the floor and couldn't free himself. He lay there for 36 hours before firefighters were able to cut him loose.

A man walked into a liquor store with a shotgun and demanded all the money from the cash register. While the cashier was putting the money in a bag the crook noticed a bottle of scotch on a shelf behind the counter that he wanted. He told the cashier to put it in the sack too.The clerk refused saying "I don't believe you're over 21. I'll have to see some ID before I give it to you." Like any smart crook he handed over his driver's license which the clerk looked over carefully, then handed it, the sack with the money and the scotch back to the crook. As soon as the crook left, the clerk called the cops with the name and address and they were waiting for him when he came home.

The Chicago river used to flow into Lake Michigan, but with man-made engineering the river now flows with water from the lake.

In order for a female Pigeon's ovaries to function she must be able to see another Pigeon, even if it is her own reflection in a mirror.

Said by New York city mayor Dinkins aftr being accused of failing to pay his taxes. "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."

A mint condition copy of the Declaration of Independence was found inside a $4 flea market picture frame. It later sold at auction for $2.4 million.

The silkworm moth has been domesticated for so long that it has lost the ability to fly and can no longer exist without human care.

"Sex gadgets are replacing Tupperware" Cleveland Plain Dealer headline.

Swooping at better than one hundred miles an hour, the African Eagle can break to a halt in twenty feet.

To see if armed forces personnel would spend money on military lottery tickets, Congress supplied the Pentagon in 1989 with $49,000.

The Polar bears thick layer of fat beneath it's skin and it's hairy coat trap heat so effectively that it is almost invisible to heat detecting infrared sensors.

Diving to a depth of 2,000 feet in five minutes the Weddell seal of Antarctica can remain under water for up to an hour.

Size for size a human 6' tall would have to jump 900' to match the jump of a common flea.

Salt Lake Cty, Utah limits it's street names to no more than eight letters.

A cricket's chirps can be used to tell the temperature. Count the number of chirps in ten seconds and add thirty-nine.

Of all the flying creatures today, the Albatross has the longest wingspan, up to 10-12 feet.

Cut a Starfish into many sizeable chunks and each will grow back into a fully formed new starfish.

Approximately one million bats live under the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, Texas.

The largest flag flown from a flagpole was a Brazilian national flag measuring sixty-five feet six inches by forty-six feet nine inches.

One of the most dangerous electric fish is the Electric eel, more than half it's body is used to produce an average of 400 volts.

While normal fish have a light belly and a dark back, the Nile catfish has developed a light back and a dark belly because it swims upside down.

A parrot can close it's beak with a force of 350 pounds per square inch.

Americans eat 3.5 billion pounds of chocolate a year, 12 pounds for every man, woman and child.

It is estimated that 95% of all the paper money in the United States has traces of cocaine on it.

Trained baboons were used by the Egyptians to wait on tables.

The reaction time of the common house fly is less than one two-hundredths of a second - ten times faster than a human.

Sinking an inch a year,Indiana University's main library building was designed without taking into account the weight of the books to be stored there.

Lions and Tigers have been successfully crossbred to create a new animal called a Tigon.

A Mudskipper fish will climb Mangroove trees to wait for the tide to come in.

The Moon is slowly pulling away from the Earth at the rate of an inch a year.

The only inland animals of Antarctica are flies, mites, lice, fleas and microbes.

Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to our Sun, 4.3 light years away, which means the light from that star takes 4.3 years to reach Earth.

An unusual shark, the Wobbegong is found off Australia and China. It's skin is nobby and fringed like seaweed, enabling it to hide on the seabed.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for plasma in an emergency.

After it was decided to close Michigan's Wurtswirth Air Force base, Congress aproved $5 million to renovate buildings and complete an aircraft hanger.

The Plaice, a relative of the Flounder and Sole, after burying most of its body in the sand on the ocean floor, has the ability to change the color of its skin to resemble it's surroundings.

Discovered in 1869, near Ballarat, Australia, the largest gold nugget ever found weighs 200 pounds.The estimated value at todays prices, aside from it's value as a unique specimen, is $1.4 million.

Vincent Van Gogh is known to have sold only one painting during his lifetime.

The official webpage of the 1998 World Cup, FRANCE98, set a new webpage hit record on June 30, 1998 with 73 million hits.

In the Spring, Hares participate in pretty rough premating antics. They buck, bound, kick and stand on their hind legs to box each other. These displays can get rough enough to cause death.

The male Seahorse gives birth to live young about 4 to 5 weeks after the female lays her eggs in a pouch on the male's abdomen.

Not a single bank existed anywhere in the thirteen colonies before the American revolution. If you needed money you had to borrow from an individual.

William Baffin, an English explorer, got to within 800 miles of the North Pole in 1615. For the next 250 years no one else came any closer.

Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.

Harry Houdini took his name from Jean Eugene Robert Houdin, the founder of modern magic, who was also an inventor. Houdin was decorated in Paris in 1855 for his application of electricity to clocks in general.

Using leeches to bleed a person was once so common place that the term "leech" came to mean a physician.