• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be formed using the letters located only on one row of the keyboard. • Butterflies taste with their feet. • Coca-Cola was originally green.• Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. • Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray. A mule wont sink in quicksand but a donkey will.• Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.• A pig in Japan says moo-moo”. A cats jaws cannot move sideways • 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.• Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars. • A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys cant.• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed. All polar bears are left hand.• A chameleon changes color in different environments but never changes the color of the head. • Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10 vocals. • Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesnt wear pants. The author is S.6 student at Lycée de Kigali Secondary School jamiefrings@yahoo.com
