7603. Animal Facts

Chameleons can change their skin colour to hide themselves (camouflage) – but they also change colour according to mood. Some go grey when depressed.

7604. Fact

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.

7605. Fact

The right lung is slightly larger than the left.

7606. Fact

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic

7607. Fact

The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.

7608. Fact

2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States

7609. Fact

Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison

7610. Fact

The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside

7611. Fact

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.

7612. Fact

Humpback whales are the only ones that use bubbles to help capture their prey. The bubbles trap fish in a spot for feeding whales.

7613. Fact

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

7614. Fact

The Olympic Flame was introduced in 1928 in Amsterdam

7615. Animal Facts

The rattle on a rattlesnake's tail is made of rings of dead skin. It builds up as the snake grows older, so the louder the rattle the larger the snake.

7616. Fact

The town of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is closer to the equator than it is to the North Pole.

7617. Fact

In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper

7618. Fact

Of all the days of the week, the most popular day for people to eat ice cream is Sunday

7619. Fact

When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

7620. Fact

Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.

7621. Fact

The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes

7622. Fact

The Prudential Life Insurance Company in USA stopped using their slogan Own A Piece Of The Rock after Rock Hudson died of AIDS and many jokes where made about him and the slogan.

History Facts
The poet Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822. His body was washed up, half eaten by fish, and cremated on the beach by his friends. One of them cut his heart from the burnt body and gave it to Shelley's wife who kept it all her life.      .. More >>