Chicken-9mph

Domestic cat-30mph

Pig-11mph

In the coastal provinces of Canada it is illegal to shoot whales from a moving automobile. In the town of Blythe, Ca., It is illegal to wear cowboy boots on Main Street if you do not own at least 5 head of cattle.

There is no such fish as a "sardine." Canned sardines are generally young herring.

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

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Armadillos can walk underwater.

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

There were no squirrels on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts until 1989.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.

More than 50 percent of dog and cat owners give their pets a human name, such as Molly, Sam or Max.

An old custom in Holland explains why we have piggy banks. At the beginning of the year, children were given pig shaped earthenware containers (known as "feast pigs") to save their pennies in. The following Christmas, they got to open them up.

Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

When the bird and the bird book disagree, believe the bird.

The way you can usually tell whether a chicken will lay white eggs or dark eggs: If the chicken has white ear lobes, she will lay white eggs. If the chicken has red ear lobes she will lay brown eggs.

Generally speaking, if your cat nudges your feet in the morning, it wants to stay inside. If it nudges your face, it wants to go out.

If you give your dog a fancy name, it's not for your dog but for your pride. You'll end up using a nickname.

Anything over 45 minutes seems like forever to your dog. You will be greeted as enthusiastically coming back from a two hour shopping trip as you will coming back from a two day vacation.

The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

The African elephant has an ear shaped like Africa. The Indian elephant has an ear shaped like India.

Fish have vertical tails. Mammals have horizontal tails.

Zigzag to outrun a crocodile.

*Just facts I have run across over the years and have kept notice of. None of which I personally came up with.