Interesting Facts 65

Worldwide, goats provide people with more meat and milk than any other domestic animal.

The world’s smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.

The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.

The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.