Trivia Factoids 11

Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die because they need gravity to swallow.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.

A penguin only has sex twice a year.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Horses  and rabbits cannot vomit.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

The female ferret is referred to as a jill.

Crickets hear through their knees.

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can get sunburn.

Dinosaur droppings are called coprolites, and are actually fairly common.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Trivia Factoids 10

All the dirt from the foundation to build the World Trade Center in NYC was dumped into the Hudson River to form the community now known as Battery City Park.

The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.

The dirt road that General Washington and his soldiers took to fight off General Clinton during the Battle of Monmouth was called the Burlington Path.

The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.

The Hudson River along the island of Manhattan flows in either direction depending upon the tide.

The company that provided the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.

Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.

Off all 50 states, Alaska has the longest border with Canada.

Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.

Montana borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them.

The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes.

Trivia Factoids 9

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

The hyoid bone, in your throat, is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called crespucular rays.

Very small clouds that look like they have been broken off of bigger clouds are called scuds.

On a dewy morning, if you look at your shadow in the grass, the dew drops shine light back to your eye, creating a halo called a heilgenschein (German for halo).

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.

All porcupines float in water.

It takes a lobster approxiamately seven years to grow to be one pound.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

A bear has 42 teeth.

Almost all swans and sturgeons in England are property of the Queen and disturbing them is a serious offense.

Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.

A-1 Steak Sauce contains both orange peel and raisins.

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' symbolizes 'two women living under one roof'.

Pickled herrings were invented in 1375.

At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.