-Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food.
-Ice Cube's real name is O'Shea Jackson.
-The flamingoes of East Africa have few natural enemies. In general, the only predators an adult flamingo need fear are the fish eagle and the marabou stork.
-James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, lived in the White House with his mother.
-Rats can swim for a 1/2 mile without resting, and they can tread water for 3 days straight.
-Alexander Hamilton has been credited with writing George Washington's famous Farewell Address.
-The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
-Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time.
-Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
-William Howard Taft is the only man ever to be President AND Chief Justice. The US Supreme Court appointment came second and was a job Taft enjoyed much more than the presidency.
-A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
-By age 16, Andre the Giant (who's real name is Andre Russimof) was 6'10' tall. He had a rare glandular disorder that made his body continue to grow. Even as he died, his body was still growing.
-A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.
-Before he pursued his acting career, Jack Nicholson worked as an office boy in MGM's cartoon department.
-Elephants often communicate at sound levels as low as 5Hz. This means that if you flap your hands back and forth faster than five times a second, an elephant can actually hear the tone produced.
-Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.
-Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.
-Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
-Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
-The Taco Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget.
-Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater.
-Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall.
-Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for President John F. Kennedy's golf clubs at a 1996 auction.
-Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
-Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
-The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.
-During World War II, W.C. Fields kept US $50,000 in Germany 'in case the little bastard wins'.
-The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.
-WWI flying ace Jean Navarre attacked a zeppelin armed with only a kitchen knife.
-When two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions. They say this is so they can keep an eye out for predators.
-The U.S. Automobile Association was formed in 1905 for the purpose or providing "scouts" who could warn motorists of hidden police traps.
-A typical day for a gorilla is to get up early and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap, they resume eating until the sun goes down.
-When Napoleon wore black silk handkerchiefs around his neck during a battle, he always won. At Waterloo, he wore a white cravat and lost the battle and his kingdom.
-The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
-Although most people think that Napoleon was short, he was actually five feet six inches tall (1.676 meters), an average height for a Frenchman in those days.
-Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
-Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
-The Portuguese jellyfish tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.
-At the outbreak of World War I, the American air force consisted of only fifty men.
-The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years.
-The leech has 32 brains, 32 more than most humans.
-Galileo became totally blind just before his death. This is probably because of his constant gazing at the sun through his telescope.