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When the French Academy was preparing its first dictionary, it defined "crab" as, "A small red fish, which walks backwards." This definition was sent with a number of others to the naturalist Cuvier for his approval. The scientist wrote back, "Your definition, gentlemen, would be perfect, only for three exceptions. The crab is not a fish, it is not red and it does not walk backwards."

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A `jiffy` is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

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One hypothesis is that tornadic waterspouts sometimes pick up creatures such as fish or frogs and carry them for up to several miles.

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Pasta was originally only made with durum, although the definition has been expanded to include alternatives for a gluten-free diet, such as rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils.

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The six official languages of the U.N. are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.

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Ten percent of the Russian government`s income comes from the sale of vodka.

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Dogs often bury bones so that they can dig them up at some moment in the future when they are hungry.

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The homes of the community are nestled amongst the steep, narrow private roads and footpaths that extend from the redwood groves and ferns along the creek, through the mixed live oak, bay, and madrone forests on the steep hillsides, up to the chaparral and knobcone pines that grow along the ridge.

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Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used from the 1830s to 1850s.

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The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

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There are about 400 million dogs in the world.

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In 1920, after the incorporation of Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia and parts of Banat, Crișana, and Maramureș, the Romanian state reached its largest peacetime geographical extent (295,049 km2).

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The oldest and most densely populated Druze communities exist in Mount Lebanon and in the south of Syria around Jabal al-Druze (literally the "Mountain of the Druze").

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

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The largest breed of dog is the Irish Wolfhound.

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Shazam first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (cover-dated Feb.

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40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

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The country code for Russia is "007".

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Dogs can make over 100 different sounds.

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Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic: a Newfoundland, a Pomeranian, and a Pekingese.

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It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows’ milk.

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Canada has had a permanent settlement on the island since 1832, when the lighthouse was first constructed.

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It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system.

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The directorate is reputedly Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency, and is distinguished among its counterparts for its willingness to execute riskier "complicated, high stakes operations".

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More than 850 million people live in the Southern Hemisphere, representing around 10–12% of the total global human population.

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Widely considered one of the most influential psychologists of all time, Jung's work has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest.

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A German Shepherd named Orient accompanied her blind owner Bill Irwin as he became the first blind person to through-hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail in 1990.

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Los Angeles’ full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula”.

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The human brain uses the same amount of energy as a 10-watt light bulb

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One of Shakespeare’s most mischievous characters is Crab, the dog belonging to Launce in the Two Gentlemen of Verona. The word "watchdog" is first found in The Tempest.

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Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

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The earliest dog fossil dates back to nearly 10,000 B.C.

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All dogs can be traced back 40 million years ago to a weasel-like animal called the Miacis which dwelled in trees and dens. The Miacis later evolved into the Tomarctus, a direct forbear of the genus Canis, which includes the wolf and jackal as well as the dog.

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One in every 9000 people is an albino.

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The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.

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The coyote was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013.

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The order's evolutionary history is not well understood, though fossil records indicate many more species lived in the past than are currently living – at least twice as many.

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A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel.

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Two stray dogs in Afghanistan saved 50 American soliders. A Facebook group raised $21,000 to bring the dogs back to the US and reunite them with the soldiers.

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The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.

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Los Angeles` full name `El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula` is reduced to 3.63% of its size in the abbreviation `L.A.`.

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Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially to describe any story that is not only untrue, but also could not possibly be true.

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It was first described by Alexander Wilson in 1812.

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Except in a small portion of southern Asia, it is the only species of "goshawk" in its range and it is thus often referred to, both officially and unofficially, as simply goshawk.

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The largest known extinct hyracoid, Titanohyrax ultimus, has been estimated to weigh 600–1,300 kilograms (1,300–2,900 lb), comparable to a water buffalo.

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Monophyodonts are animals that develop only one set of teeth, while diphyodonts grow an early set of deciduous teeth and a later set of permanent or "adult" teeth.

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The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia.

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Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.

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In 1906 she climbed Pinnacle Peak in the Nun Kun massif to an altitude of about 23,000 feet (7,000 m), setting a women's altitude record at the time.

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The first cat show was in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London.

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For example, a verse on financial testimony notes that two women may be called as witnesses alongside one man "lest one of them errs, the other can remind her" (Quran 2:282), a passage scholars have read both as reflecting the social context of 7th-century Arabia and as a broader statement on women's reliability as witnesses.

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Cats have been domesticated for half as long as dogs have been.

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Spanish punctuation uniquely includes the use of inverted question and exclamation marks: ⟨¿⟩ ⟨¡⟩.

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Today there are about 100 distinct breeds of the domestic cat.

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38% of American men say they love their cars more than women

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Notable residents have included the industrialist, philanthropist and Manchester's first multi-millionaire John Rylands, the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, the painter L.

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The Maine Coone is the only native American long haired breed.

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Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year—the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972, and after being published it remained associated with Dungeons & Dragons publications until 2008.

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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

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In 1986 Congress & President Ronald Reagan signed Public Law 99-359, which changed Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the first Sunday in April. It was estimated to save the nation about 300,000 barrels of oil each year by adding most of the month April to D.S.T.

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Dogs do not have an appendix. Why haven’t humans gotten rid of theirs yet?

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Bingo is the name of the dog on the side of the Cracker Jack box.

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In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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The Chihuahua was named after the state in Mexico where they were discovered.

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The show was created by Roy Mitchell and Nigel McCrery, and premiered in 2003 with a 90-minute special, which later resulted in show's first full series airing.

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Weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald McDonald.

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The average American works 24,000 hours in their lifetime just to pay their taxes

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Dr. Kellogg introduced Kellogg`s Corn Flakes in hopes that it would reduce masturbation.

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Cats’ urine glows under a black light.

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The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

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President Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Terrier Pete ripped the pants off French Ambassador Jules Jusserand.

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The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

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There are over 58 million dogs in the US

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There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

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Why are dogs’ noses so wet? Dogs’ noses secrete a thin layer of mucous that helps them absorb scent. They then lick their noses to sample the scent through their mouth.

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For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.

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The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.

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This pup, Nesbit, earned over one million Delta airline miles in his life and had his own frequent flier card.

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He rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived a year among the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences.

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