Did You Know...(Part 70)?
1) The Canary Islands are named for a breed of dog, not a canary.
2) Dragonflies can fly at speeds up to 35mph and can move their two sets of wings separately.
3) The Frisbee was first named the Pluto Platter.
4) The tentacles on the largest jellyfish ever found measured 100 feet long.
5) An adult octopus has 2,000 suckers on average.
6) A sperm whale can hold its breath underwater for 90 minutes.
7) Mosquitoes kill more than a million people annually.
8) Snakes don't have ears; they "hear" by feeling vibrations from the ground.
9) Cats can jump nine to ten times their own height.
10) Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong's first meal on the moon was roast turkey.
Source: Uncle John's Triumphant Bathroom Reader Plunges Into The Universe.
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Oh what I am reading about no one wants to hear the facts on it lol!!
The proportion of the bumblebees wing to its body mass says that the bumblebee cannot fly.
The bumblebee, howeve, doesn't know this and flies all the time and make a little honey every day.
My two felines have done some amazing acrobatics in their time.
When they rub their paws or cheeks on something (including you!) they are marking you with their pheromones to claim you as theirs. Not affection in quite the same way we humans like to think, but still a nice feeling, eh?
Thanks Dan.
There is a cat called the Egyptian Mou. Mou means cat. Is this funny or what?