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3621/ The maximum amount of money
in US coinage that you can have and NOT be able to make change
for a dollar is $1.19; three quarters, four dimes, and four
pennies.
3622/ The standard weight of
a ping pong ball is equivalent to 2.5 grams.
3623/ Wayne Gretsky had it written
into his final NHL player contract with the New York Rangers
that he would receive two tickets to every event at New York
City's Madison Square Garden for the rest of his life.
3624/ Sir John Falstaff appears
in more plays of Shakespeare (3 - King Henry 4 Parts 1 and
2, and King Henry V) than any other Shakespearean character.
3625/ All current denominations
of US currency are 6.14 inches wide and 2.61 inches in hight.
3626/ The leaning Tower of Pisa
has eight storeys.
3627/ The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
3628/ A horse focuses its eye
by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape
of the lens of the eye, as humans do.
3629/ A mole can dig a tunnel
300 feet long in one night.
3630/ Porcupines have an average
of 30,000 quills. They are excellent swimmers because their
quills are hollow and serve as pontoons to keep them afloat.
3631/ Cats have no ability to
taste sweet things.
3632/ Guinea Pigs were first
domesticated by the Incas, who used them for food, in sacrifices,
and as household pets.
3633/ Cows have four stomachs.
Often when a calf is born the farmer will make it swallow
a magnet. This is to attract the various nails, staples, tacks,
bits of wire and so on that the cow may ingest when grazing.
(This odd hunger is known to farmers as 'hardware disease')
When the animal is slaughtered, the butcher will remove the
magnet along with the metallic debris and sell the mass of
iron and steel for scrap.
3634/ The frigate bird can fly
at a speed of 260 miles per hour.
3635/ A kangaroo cannot jump
if its tail is lifted off the ground. It needs its tail for
pushing off.
3636/ A hippopotamus can run
faster than a man.
3637/ The fur of the vicuna,
a small member of the camel family which lives only in the
Andes Mountains of Perus, is so fine that each hair is less
than two-thousandths of an inch thick. The animal was considered
sacred by the Incas, and only royalty could wear its fleece.
3638/ The bottle-nosed whale
can dive to a depth of 3,000 feet in two minutes.
3639/ A whale's heart beats only
nine times a minute.
3640/ The lesser mole rate not
only digs an entire subterranean house for itself, complete
with storerooms, halls, bedrooms, and a "wedding chamber"
where all mating takes place, but actually constructs a separate
bathroom which, when filled, is sealed off from the rest of
the house. (Editor Note
- Seems kind of unfair to call it 'lesser' really. Given that
it can probably tap dance as well!)
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