More Weird Facts

It is impossible to lick your elbow (unless your double jointed and such)(Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.)
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
Turkeys can drown in the rain by looking up at the precipitation with their mouths open
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. Humans, by comparison, have only about six hundred
A beetle in Africa called the Goliath Beetle is as big as your fist
If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth!
A pig always sleeps on its right side
Lions do not live in jungles, they live in the grasslands
Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced A Rainy Day.
Turkeys are so clueless that when they're born the only way to get then to eat is to put marbles in the feed. The marbles are too big for them to eat, but they get curious and peck at them and when their beak slips off the marble, they get a mouthful of food.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time
A blue whale's testicles are as large as a Volkswagen beetle
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times
The aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.
Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes
Brachiosaurus had a heart the size of a pickup truck
Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex
Turkeys will peck to death members of the flock that are physically inferior or different
Cows poop on average 16 times a day

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Any female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters
An Octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry
Snakes cannot blink.
When North America was first settled, beavers there grew to the size of bears
A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average
If you turn a shark over on it's back it will go into a kind of trance and not move, however, as soon as you turn it back over it starts trashing around again.
The eyes of some birds weigh more than their brains
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth
Moths have no stomach.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't
Europeans used to call giraffes camelopards. This is because they thought they were the offsprings of a camel and a leopard
78% of cats never travel with their owner.
Cats, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high possibility of having six toes
The whale must move its whole body to shift its line of sight because its eyeball is fixed
The bonobo monkeys use sex (and/or sexual favors) to placate members of their social group instead of grooming. They are one of the few species of animals (humans being another) that have sex out of season and for fun.
A baby Platypus remains blind after birth for 11 weeks
Insects out number humans 100,000,000 to 1
One beaver can cut down 216 trees a year
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can

The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis
The African Rock Python can survive for two years without eating
Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct
A giraffe can clean its ear with its 21-inch tongue
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone
The walking catfish can live on land
Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat
A snail can have 25,000 teeth
The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultraviolet light.
The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick, so solid that most bullets cannot go through
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
An armadillo can walk under water
It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound
Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish.
The blue whale's tail can generate 500 horsepower
An elephant can smell water three miles away
India has a Bill of Rights for cows
The chances that you will be bitten by a scorpion are 1 in 2 million
In four years, one female cat could be responsible for the birth of 20,736 cats
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.