- Hiccups usually lasts for 5 minutes.
- There are over 900 species of bats.
- You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36).
- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian).
- A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
- The drinking straw was invented in 1886.
- Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
- Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
- In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.
- The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953.
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