Interesting Facts

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

The first full moon to occur on the winter solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter, happened in 1999. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurred in conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon’s orbit that is closest to Earth), the moon appeared

Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe. (Funny our cats only wake up when they smell food)

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”

Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters.

Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.