Interesting facts thread

Most lionesses will have reproduced by the time they are four years of age.[77] Lions do not mate at any specific time of year, and the females are polyestrous.[78] As with other cats, the male lion's penis has spines which point backwards. Upon withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's vagina, which may cause ovulation.[79] A lioness may mate with more than one male when she is in heat;[80] during a mating bout, which could last several days, the couple copulates twenty to forty times a day and are likely to forgo eating. Lions reproduce very well in captivity.

A group of meerkats is called a "mob", "gang" or "clan". A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats at a time, but some superfamilies have had 50 or more. Meerkats have an average life span of 12-14 years. (JUST LIKE OUR GUILD)

The meerkat is a small diurnal herpestid (mongoose) weighing on average about 731 grams.

The meerkat uses its tail to balance when standing upright. Its face tapers, coming to a point at the nose, which is brown. The eyes always have black patches around them, which help deflect the sun's glare. The meerkat has small black crescent-shaped ears that can close when digging to keep sand out. Like cats, meerkats have binocular vision, a large peripheral range, depth perception, and eyes on the front of their faces.

hey are partially immune to certain venoms; they are immune to the very strong venom of the scorpions of the Kalahari Desert, unlike humans.[1] They have no excess body fat stores, so foraging for food is a daily need.

Meerkats forage in a group with one "sentry" on guard watching for predators while the others search for food. Sentry duty is usually approximately an hour long. Baby meerkats do not start foraging for food until they are about 1 month old, and do so by following an older member of the group who acts as the pup's tutor.[2] The meerkat standing guard makes peeping sounds when all is well. If the meerkat spots danger, it barks loudly or whistles.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The word "gymnasium" comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means "to exercise naked."

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn't wear pants.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. ( i'm a lefty o_O )

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!

All polar bears are left handed.


TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

WTF!!!