Trivia for Squiggle #15
Today's issue of Trivia for Squiggle is all about animals...today's quote (which is super easy) even makes reference to a famous movie scene involving birds.
351. When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats.
352. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
353. Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Also unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
354. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
355. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
356. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
357. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
358. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
359. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
360. There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.
361. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
362. The viscera of Japanese abalone can harbor a poisonous substance which causes a burning, stinging, prickling and itching over the entire body. It does not manifest itself until exposure to sunlight - if eaten outdoors in sunlight, symptoms occur quickly and suddenly.
363. The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.
364. The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
365. The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
366. The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
367. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
368. The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
369. The pigmy shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.
370. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
371. The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
372. The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
373. The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
374. The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
375. The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky..."
351. When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats.
352. When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
353. Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Also unlike most fish, they can swim both backwards and forwards.
354. There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
355. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
356. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
357. The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
358. The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
359. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
360. There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.
361. The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
362. The viscera of Japanese abalone can harbor a poisonous substance which causes a burning, stinging, prickling and itching over the entire body. It does not manifest itself until exposure to sunlight - if eaten outdoors in sunlight, symptoms occur quickly and suddenly.
363. The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.
364. The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
365. The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
366. The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
367. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
368. The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
369. The pigmy shrew - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.
370. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
371. The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
372. The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
373. The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
374. The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.
375. The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.
"I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky..."
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