Thursday, October 14, 2010

Strange Facts

A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A elephant is the heaviest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.
A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
A man had the hiccups for 69 years.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.
A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,Indiana.
A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.
A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt light bulb
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A Penny whistle has six finger holes.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can last longer with out water than a camel.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.

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