Interesting Facts 50

Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.