8627. Fact

The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82

8628. Fact

Some Ribbon worm will eat themselves if they cannot find food. This type of worm can still survive after eating up to 95% of its body weight

8629. Fact

Audrey Hepburn's real name was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston.

8630. Fact

The average speed for a migrating duck is fifty miles per hour.

8631. Fact

More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

8632. Fact

Sound carries so well in the Arctic that on a calm day, a conversation can be heard from 1.8 miles away.

8633. Fact

There are 132 rooms in the US White House.

8634. Fact

One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet

8635. Fact

At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

8636. Animal Facts

Dogs in New York, USA, produce 18 million kilograms (40 million pounds) of faeces a year. Luckily, New Yorkers have to clear up after their dogs.

8637. Fact

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

8638. Fact

The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers.

8639. Fact

The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

8640. Fact

Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.

8641. Fact

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its'heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

8642. Animal Facts

A cockroach can live for a week after its head is cut off.

8643. Fact

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

8644. Fact

The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.

8645. Fact

To women, a man's buttocks are the most admired part of his body.

8646. Fact

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression to get fired.

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