Miscelleneous

The Galapagos turtle can weigh up to 500 pounds while the leather back turtle can weigh up to 1,000 pounds.

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Ocean waves can travel as fast as a Jet plane.

If you keep the tap running down while brushing your teeth, you waste 4 gallons of water on an average.

The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river.

The oldest known vegetation is the pea.

Some tapeworms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, Wisconsin, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Elephant's can smell water 3 miles away!

Mosquitoes do not bite. They pierce victim with their long proboscis and suck the blood through its nasal tube.