Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and can have 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.
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