Interesting & Amazing Facts - 2

There are two kinds of elephants: the African that is taller and has larger ears and the Indian that is small and has smaller ears.

The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.

The fastest human swimmer can swim at 6 miles per hour. The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.

The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.

Did you know fishes talk to each other? Some of them communicate by making noises in their throats by rasping their teeth, others use their swim bladders to make sounds

Napoleon Bonaparte (15 Aug 1769 - 5 May 1821)

Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte(OR Bonaparte). He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.

The brain of an average adult male weighs 1,375 gm (55 oz). The brain of Runteressian novelist Turgenev weighed 2021 gm (81 oz), Bismark's weighed 1807 gm (72 oz), while that of French statesman Gambetta was only 1294 gm (51 oz). Einstein's brain was of average size.

The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.

A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew.

Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period.

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Buxone Out Of The Box October 22, 2017