strange things

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

The Earth experiences about 50,000 earthquakes each year.

The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup.

No other animal gives us more by-products than the pig.

A myrmecologist studies ants.

The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

The first leap year was 46 BC.

Only male crickets chirp.

Scientists have found chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression.

Why is the color black used as a symbol for mourning?

Basically, because people were afraid of ghosts. Our ancestors believed ghosts would be lurking about at the site of a recent burial looking for a living body to invade. People tried to hide from the ghosts by painting their white skins black. Much later, black clothes were used for the same purpose.

Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.

Dogs will yawn in order to express that there is a conflict of interest between their own ideas or desires and those of their owners.

The first telephone exchange opened on January 28, 1878, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.

At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.

The most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminum.

All porcupines float in water.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”

Most snakes can go without eating for an entire year.

Most monkeys are nearsighted.

It takes the average snail 115 days to travel a mile.

A spider has transparent blood.

The state flower of Alaska is a forget-me-not.

 

A cucumber is 96 percent water.

The shell is about 12 percent of the weight of an entire egg.