Spectacled bears are the only kind of bear that lives
in South American.
The opening to a cave where a bear hibernates is always
on the north slope.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the
days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The
horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how
to walk up straight staircases.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate
geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled
ceiling.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used
to clean elephants.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules
were used.
All porcupines float in water.
If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die,
they need gravity to swallow.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only
have about ten.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in
air crashes.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and
survive!
Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen
seconds.
