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3981/ Two rats can become the
progenitors of 15,000 rats in less than a year.
3982/ Tunas will suffocate if
they ever stop swimming. They need a continual flow of water
across their gills to breathe, even while they rest.
3983/ Mr Spock's blood type was
T-Negative.
3984/ The female king crab incubates
as many as 400,000 young for 11 months in a brood pouch under
her abdomen.
3985/ Unlike most female animals,
the female rice rat is the one that searches for and pursues
a mate.
3986/ Dolphins swim in circles
while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle
open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of
time, they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with
the opposite eye open.
3987/ Adolf Hitler's great-great-grandmother
was a Jewish maid.
3988/ While in Alcatraz, Al Capone
was inmate #85.
3989/ Anteaters prefer termites
to ants.
3990/ President James Garfield
could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other -
simultaneously.
3991/ Queen Victoria eased the
discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply
her with marijuana.
3992/ The African lungfish can
live without water for up to four years. When a drought occurs,
it digs a pit and encloses itself in a capsule of slime and
earth, leaving a small opening for breathing. The capsule
dries and hardens, but the fish is protected. When rain comes,
the capsule dissolves and the lungfish swims away.
3993/ It takes 11 truckloads
of wood to make a proper funeral pyre for a full-size elephant.
3994/ In Michigan, USA, it is
illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.
3995/ It takes a sloth two weeks
to digest the food it eats.
3996/ Human birth control pills
work on Gorillas.
3997/ A group of goats is called
a trip.
3998/ Fidel Castro was once a
star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940s.
3999/ Miss Piggy's measurements
are 27-20-36.
4000/ The Southern dish 'chitlins'
is made up of pigs small intestines.
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