Cats use their four dagger-like canine teeth to bite the back of an animals neck. Nerves at the bottom of these teeth guide them between the vertebrae of their prey. The bite is so accurate that it cuts the spinal cord between the bones and the victim dies instantly.
The shape of a mountain can tell you whether it is "young" or "old" The sharp jagged mountains of the Rockys are "young" at about 100 million years old. The Appalachians, more rounded and smooth are "old" at approximately 250 million years. Weather and time smoothed them over.
In 1953, the deep-sea bathyscape Trieste reached a depth of 10,330 feet.
In 1971-1972 over 100 feet of snow fell on Mt. Rainier in Washington State, United States.
A black panther is actually a leopard with nearly invisible black spots on a black background.
Then longest glacier in the world is the Lambert Glacier in Antartica. It flows for about 440 miles.
It is estimated that a plastic container can resist decomposition for as long as 50,000 years.
A typical surgical skin graft is done with a slice of skin eight-thousandths of an inch thick.
Lions gorge rather than eat every day. In a single meal a male lion can eat as much as eighty pounds of meat, then not eat again for a week.
The Baikal seal, from Lake Baikal in Siberia, is the worlds only freshwater seal.
Until 1857, any foriegn coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.
There is only one state in the United States named after a president-Washington.
The caracal cat, nicknamed the desert lynx, has the ability to leap from the ground and swat birds out of the air.
The Sahara desert is almost the size of the United States.
King Henry III of France, Loius XIV of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia-commonly known as fear of cats.
Sound travels through steel fifteen times more swiftly than through air.
Wolve are not really large animals. An average male will weigh about 95 pounds and a female about 10 pounds less. They stand about two and a half feet high and are about five to six feet from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.
The Nile at 4,145 miles is the longest river in the world. It crosses five countries, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt, before it reaches the Mediterranean Sea.
Thomas Jefferson invented the calendar clock.
It would take a two pound weight over an hour to drop to the floor of the seven mile deep Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
A wolf use it's tail to express how it's feeling. A tail raised and slightly curved at the tip means the wolf is sure of itself. If the tail is dropped but slightly curved at the tip, the wolf is friendly. If it is dropped between it's legs it is afraid.
The Amazon River drops enough fresh water into the Atlantic ocean in a single day to provide all the water used by all the homes in the USA for four to five months.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
The Shillong Plateau of India is the wettest place on earth. It can rain as much as forty feet in one year, most of it falling between June and September.
As fierce as wolves look they must hunt continualy. They are able to kill only about 10 percent of the animals they go after. Most escape and some like moose may fight back.
The Great Barrier Reef, in the Coral Sea off the northeast coast of Australia, is about 1,250 miles long.
Ladislaus Cubitas, fourteenth-century king of Ploand was a dwarf.
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than used to manufacture car bodies.
Coyotes are clever hunters. One favorite prey is the jackrabbit, which tends to run in circles. Hunting in pairs, one coyote will chase the rabbit while the other waits for it to return to the start of the circle.
At any one time there are approximately 850 active volcanos around the world.
Khone Falls in Laos, Asia is the worlds widest falls.
During the Civil War undertakers were addressed as "Doctor".
Bears may look clumsy but some can run as fast as forty miles an hour, faster than a greyhound or an Olympic sprinter.
The deepest known cave in the world, at a depth of 5,036 feet, is the Reseau Jean Bernard Cave in France.
Tablecloths were originally meant to serve as towels with which guests could wipe their hands and faces after dinner.
In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
The staple diet of a sloth bear is termites. It will dig a hole in a nest, stick it's muzzle in and blow violently to clear away debris. Then it closes it's nostrils and sucks out the insects. The sounds it makes while vacuuming up it's meal can be heard from 200 yards away.
Made of a magnesium alloy with a fiberglass outer skin, the JIM suit can allow a diver to go to depths of 2,000 feet.
In 1910 a football team was penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
In 1917, Death Valley in California became the hottest place on Earth. It recorded 43 consecutive days of 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures.
