Did you know.....

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
  
  
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
  
  
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
  
  
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  
  
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  
  
• In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
  
  
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
  
  
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
  
  
• Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
  
  
• Elephants can't jump. Every other land mammal can.

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