Cats can not only smell with their noses, they can also smell with an additional organ called the Jacobson's, located on the upper surface of the mouth.
"2 Towns Vie For Pizza Hut Sewage" Hunterdon County Democrat Headline.
Venezuela's Angel Falls, more than twenty times the height of Niagara, is the highest waterfall known.
The Stegosauras had a head so small that the nerve knot in the middle of it's back was larger than it's brain.
$180,000 spent by the Illinois Department of Conservation to study the contents of owl vomit.
Because of it's extreme gravitational pull the escape velocity of a Black Hole is more than 186,000 miles per second. Since light can't travel fast enough to escape it's pull you can't see a Black Hole.
Running as fast as a race horse, the stride of an Ostrich is about twenty-eight feet.
So much water is pushed into the Atlantic Ocean by the Amazon River that 100 miles out to sea you can dip fresh water out of the ocean and drink it.
The garden chambers of Leaf-cutting ants can extend as far as twelve feet underground.
Ross Perot "If anybody has any better ideas, I'm all ears"
The Gecko when threatened, has the ability to break off it's own tail by twisting a muscle and snapping a vertabrae. The tail continues to twitch, distracting the predator, allowing the Gecko to escape.
Opening only at dusk, the Yellow Evening Primrose opens so swiftly it can be seen and heard, like a popping soap bubble.
Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion, lectured on Shakespeare at Yale University.
The hearing of African Heart-nosed bats is so acute that it can hear the footsteps of a beetle on the sand at more than six feet.
Paid by the Pentagon for a ten foot aluminum ladder-$1,676.
Alexander Graham Bell set a world water speed record of over 70 miles per hour in his hydrofoil boat in 1919 at the age of 72.
Bamboo can grow three feet in twenty-four hours.
The electric starter on cars, perfected in 1911 by Kettering, made it possible for women to drive without having someone along to hand crank the engine.
The largest firework ever made was called the Universe I Part II. The fifty-four and a half foot diameter, 1,500 pound shell exploded in the sky in a burst almost 4,000 feet in diameter.
Rep. Barbara Boxer ( D.Calif.) "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said 'Thank God I'm alive.' But of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again".
The Short-tailed Shearwater migrates from Australia around the Pacific Rim, about 20,000 miles, and returns within a day or two a year later and always within the same 20 minutes of the evening of their arrival time the year before.
Whale fetuses have hands and fingers which fuse together before birth.
The highest tides in the world occur at the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. The difference between high and low tide can be as much as 53 feet.
Victoria regia, a giant water lily has leaves large enough to support the weight of a small child. Some grow as wide as eight feet.
President Nixon on the silent 18 minutes on one of the Watergate tapes. "Oh that was just an accident that happened."
"One mile in five must be straight" is a requirement of the Eisenhower Interstate highway system, to be used as an airstrip during emergency situations.
Prehistoric Dragonflies had wingspans of up to thirty inches.
The windiest place on Earth is Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica.
Yaks sometimes graze at altitudes above 15,000 feet in the Himalayas, making them the highest-living land animal.
Bluebottle flies can detect the smell of meat from up to four miles away.
Sound waves produced inside the Sun make it swell and shrink by a mile or so every few minutes.
Antartic squid can grow up to 65 feet long. Many are cannibalistic, attacking and eating other squid.
There are approximately 2.5 million physicians in the world, 500,000 or one in five are Russian.
The oldest jet aircraft still flying today is a Boeing 707-138, part of the Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force. It has been in operation since February 11, 1959.
Crater Lake, located in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, has an average depth of 1,500 feet, the deepest point being 1,900 feet.
The source of the silver for the first U.S. coins was Martha Washington's silver service.
Checks inscribed on clay tablets were used as currency in ancient Babylonia 1,000 years before the first coins were used.
The largest volcanic crater in the world is that of Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia that covers 685 square miles.
Hoatzin, a forest bird of northern South America, have chicks that are born with claws on the front edges of their wings, used for crawling through the trees when the chicks leave the nest. The nests are built out over water so that when attacked by a predator the chicks dive into the water and crawl back out and up the tree when safe again.
With over 600 species, the Skink makes up one of the largest families of lizards.
Progeria is a disease that causes the entire life span of an individual to compress into just a few years.At 7 or 8 years old a person will look,act and feel like a very old person. And who dies of old age at 11 or 12 years.
Andrew Jackson became a national hero after the Battle of New Orleans. It was fought two weeks after the war (of 1812) had officially ended and a month before the news reached them.
Because of the electric light Americans on the average sleep 1 1/2 hours less than people did 60 years ago, about 7 1/2 hours a day.
Although it consumes up to 25% of the bloods oxygen supply, the soft mass of the adult brain is motionless, it does not grow, divide or contract.
President James Garfield (3/4/1881-9/19/1881) was ambidextrous and could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other-simultaneously.
