Did you know…

• Cats have over one hundred vocal     sounds. Dogs only have about 10 vocals.• Cats and dogs can only see the colors    blue and yellow?• “Go.”   is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

Monday, September 28, 2009

• Cats have over one hundred vocal     sounds. Dogs only have about 10 vocals.
• Cats and dogs can only see the colors    blue and yellow?
• "Go.”   is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

• A cat sees about six times better than    a human at night because of the ta   petum lucidum , a layer of extra
 reflecting cells which absorb light.

• A cat uses whiskers to determine if a    space is too small to squeeze through.    The whiskers act as antennae,
 helping the animal to judge the precise    width of any passage.

• Google offers its employees free lunch.
• BBC has 43 different translations of its   website.
• In Kenya a child’s middle name is given    based on the time of the day the    child is born?

• Nigeria is home to about 400 languages.
• People from Niger are Nigerien. People    from Nigeria are Nigerian.
• Namib Desert is believed to be the
 oldest desert in the world.

• In South Africa the @ is called
 "aapstert” which means a "monkey’s tail”
• The only dog in the world that does not    bark is an African dog, Basenji.

• Giraffes give birth while standing up.    The baby falls from a height of six feet   usually without being hurt.
• The most populated country in Africa is    Nigeria.
• Everyone on earth has something they    believe in and mostly its GOD.

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