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The oldest parts of the Bible may be as early as c.

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Though not quite as flexible as seals, some dolphins can travel at speeds 29 km/h (18 mph) for short distances.

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They are widely distributed across the southern part of Africa, and although common nowhere, can be found in almost any type of habitat, from the Namib Desert to boulder-strewn outcrops in South Africa to thick forest.

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It reaches a total length (including the tail) of up to 125 cm (50 in).

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07 oz), and the largest is the 23 cm (9 in) giant hummingbird, weighing 17–31 grams (0.

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Illinois has the highest number of personalized license plates than any other state.

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Many cats love having their forehead gently stroked.

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The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.

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A cat can sprint at about thirty-one miles per hour.

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Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

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The oldest known doll toy is thought to be 4,000 years old.

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Like humans, cats tend to favor one paw over another

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"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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Those born under the sign of the dog in Chinese astrology are considered to be loyal and discreet, though slightly temperamental.

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A cat's nose is as unique as a human's fingerprint.

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More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).

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Some species can leap 50 times their body length, a feat second only to jumps made by another group of insects, the superfamily of froghoppers.

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The largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere, it comprises 126 species in 18 genera.

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It is the continent's smallest and most widely distributed bear species.

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The wolverine ( WUUL-və-reen, US also WUUL-və-REEN; Gulo gulo), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, kwiihkwahaacheew), is the largest land-dwelling member of the family Mustelidae.

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Current popular representations are typically based on cultural clichés and stereotypes and are rarely accurate—for example, there is no evidence that they wore horned helmets, a costume element that first appeared in the 19th century.

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They have streamlined, fish-like bodies with the two forelimbs evolving into flippers, complete loss of hindlimbs (with only vestigial pelvic skeleton), and the tail forming a horizontal fluke.

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9 meters (98 feet) and a weight of 173 tonnes (190 short tons), making it the largest animal known to have existed.

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The capybara ( kap-ih-BAR-uh) or greater capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is the largest living rodent, native to all countries in South America except Chile.

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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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60% of electrocutions occur while talking on the telephone during a thunderstorm..

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Earth is the only planet not named after a god..

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The largest breed of dog is the Irish Wolfhound..

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More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa..

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In Australia, a man who was arrested for drug possession argued his civil rights were violated when the drug-sniffing dog nuzzled his crotch.

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In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid..

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Only female mosquito’s` bite and most are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color..

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The process of birthing puppies is called "whelping.

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Cats take between 20-40 breaths per minute..

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There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum)..

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The average city dog lives 3 years longer than a country dog..

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A domestic cat can run at speeds of 30 mph..

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In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator..

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Aristotle's writings on biology, the first in the history of science, are scattered across several books, forming about a quarter of his writings that have survived..

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Though Aristotle wrote many treatises and dialogues for publication, only around a third of his original output has survived, none of it intended for publication..

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The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined..

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In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays).

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3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a Moose..

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Boxers are so named because of their manner of playing using their front paws..

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Elephants only sleep for two hours each day..

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In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal..

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A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body..

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Primitive man would observe an animal that had a unique trait and the inexplicability would engender curiosity..

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Lisowicia is the largest known dicynodont, as well as the largest non-mammalian synapsid, reaching about 4..

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8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world`s record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class.

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On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily..

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14% of Americans have skinny-dipped with a member of the opposite sex at least once..

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It can be used with any writing system that is alphabetic, such as that of English, Russian, and most other languages..

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Dalmatian puppies are pure white when they are born and develop their spots as they grow older..

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In New York State, it is illegal to but any alcohol on Sundays before noon..

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The letter K, although relatively older, is also rarely used and appears only in proper names and international neologisms such as kilogram, broker, karate..

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Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient.

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Dodona (; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, romanized: Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus..

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In Orphism, he was variously a son of Zeus and Persephone; a chthonic or underworld aspect of Zeus; or the twice-born son of Zeus and the mortal Semele..

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He made a voyage of exploration to Northern Europe in about 325 BC, but his account of it, known widely in antiquity, has not survived and is now known only through the writings of others..

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US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen..

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Early childhood typically ranges from infancy to the age of 6 years old.

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The earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons..

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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times..

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When dogs were evolving, bone marrow could sometimes form an important part of their diet..

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"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order..

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Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air..

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There are 240 dots on an arcade Pac-Man game.

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860), also known as the “Philosopher of Pessimism”, was a German philosopher and writer.

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The western honey bee was one of the first domesticated insects, and it is the primary species maintained by beekeepers to this day for both its honey production and pollination activities.

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Mexico covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), and is the thirteenth-largest country in the world by land area..

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It has also led to the development of molecular clock techniques to date taxon divergence times and to calibrate these with the fossil record.

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Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor.

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Most collect calls are made on father`s day..

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Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand..

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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons.

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These scientific hypotheses are as yet unvalidated, and they can overlap with quantum mysticism..

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Incubation, by the female only, starts when the clutch is complete, and lasts 16–21 days..

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Some characters that were first introduced as fully fleshed-out characters become subsequently used as stock characters in other works – for example, the Ebenezer Scrooge character from A Christmas Carol, upon whom the "miser" stereotype is based, and whose name now has become a shorthand for it..

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The title can be translated as "The Swaggering Soldier" or "Vainglorious Soldier"..

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