Fun Facts

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  Generally, chickens with white ear lobes lay white eggs, and chickens with red ear lobes lay brown eggs. Feather color has nothing to do with eggshell color.

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  Unlike other ruminants, camelids (llamas, alpacas, camels, etc.) only have three compartments to their stomach (C1, C2 and C3).

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  Horses are among the fastest mammals clocking speeds above 35 miles per hour, but ironically the slowest fish is named the seahorse, which swims at 0.01 mph.

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  It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels that forgot where they hid their nuts.

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  Frogs can throw up, but not the way humans do. They actually expel their entire stomach then use their forearms to “dig” the contents out. After they’re done, the stomach goes back in.

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  When a dog sniffs a fire hydrant, that’s not all it’s smelling. Dogs can perceive many different scents and different layers within one scent. Dogs have about 300 million olfactory receptors and humans only 6 million. Can you imagine what goes through their minds when they sniff around during a simple walk at the park?