Category Archives: Animals

May 29 2022
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Animals

Fact #1324: A male zebra and a female horse make a zorse.

Credit for today’s fact goes to: Jashen Patheja

Mar 21 2017
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Animals

Fact #1319: Reindeer are one of the only mammals that can see UV light, allowing them to see lichen and polar bears against the snow.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Reindeer

Mar 16 2017
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Animals

Fact #1316: An ox is just a bull that has been trained to pull a plow.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ox

Mar 02 2017
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Animals

Fact #1306: When bottle feeding a kitten, you should NEVER put the kitten on their back. Doing so can cause the kitten to drown.

Source: http://snapcats.org/bottlekittens.htm

Mar 01 2017
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Animals, Places

Fact #1305: A plague known as “rat flood” strikes northeastern India every 48 years, in which a horde of rats emerges from the jungle and devours all its path.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mautam

Jan 17 2017
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Animals

Fact #1274: The reason owls can’t turn their eyes is because they don’t have eyeballs – their eyes are tube shaped which prohibits them from being able to turn in sockets like ours.

Source: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/spring/OwlFacts.html

Jan 09 2017
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Animals, Natural World

Fact #1268: Livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions.

Source: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294

Dec 30 2016
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Animals

Fact #1263: Bulldogs are called bulldogs because they were originally bred for bull-baiting, where the dogs would attack a bull tied to a stake in a battle for bloodshed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_Bulldog

Dec 19 2016
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Animals, Natural World

Fact #1254: A plane en route from Australia to Malaysia with a cargo of 2186 sheep had to make an emergency landing in Bali when excess gas from the animals set off smoke indicators.

Source: http://avherald.com/h?article=48e6ef9c

Nov 23 2016
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Animals

Fact #1236: Cats are happier and healthier when they are given “food puzzles” which help them follow their foraging instincts.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/cats-are-happier-and-healthier-when-you-make-them-work-1786057743

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