Amazing facts
* When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of three
metres, normally without being hurt.
*Cockroaches have a high tolerance to radiation and are the most
likely creature to survive a nuclear war.
* Pigs and humans are the only creatures that get sunburnt.
*Fleas can jump 80 times their own height and 150 times their own
length.
* Did you know that the shark is immune to all known diseases? Its
skeleton is made of cartilage and has no bones.
* The average slug can stretch itself out to eleven times its body
length.
*Snails can sleep for three years without eating.
*The elephant is the only animal with four knees.An albatross can fly
all day and not flap its wings once.
* A duck's quack doesn't echo, and nobody knows why.
*Rabbits have been known to reach a speed of 44 mph.
* Cows and horses sleep standing up.
* All domestic cats hate lemons, or any citrus scent of any kind.
* Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as
knife blads. * Stroking a cat or dog can lower your blood pressure and
heart rate and helps reduce the risk of illnesses like heart disease.
* The biggest frog in the world unusually dubbed Keith Baxter, lives
under a slab in Yeovil, Somerset.
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