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• 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, May 16, 2011

• 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 tapetum 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 during 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 and 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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