According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics, around 260 to 300 million turkeys are killed in the United States every year. 45 million of these turkeys are slaughtered for thanksgiving and 22 million for Christmas.
Do you have a pet hamster? Children and even adults love to care for hamsters as pets. It is believed though that all pet hamsters descended from one female wild golden hamster. This hamster was found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
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A study made by the Carnegie Mellon University's Green Design Institute shows that online shopping is a form of green shopping. Online shopping requires consumption of less energy and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 35 percent as compared to shopping in traditional retail stores. Visit http://www.buy.com/toc/green-study/66996.html for more details.
Many people consider the brain as one of the most important part of the human body. Our brain makes us think, learn and even decide which pair tuxedo shoes look best on a kind of suite but did you know that the human is brain is composed of 75% water?
Humans retain the same size of their eyes from birth but the nose and ears do not actually stop growing.
Source: Sciensational: Science Facts and Trivia for Everyone http://www.sciensational.com/biology-facts-pg8.html
Humans are not the only ones who can recognize themselves in the mirror. Chimpanzees also do. They are known to be the only animal that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Humans and most animals that we know of have their ears on their head but did you know that the cricket's ears are on its knees?
Source: Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences via http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/~af388/trivia.html
We often hear and read that the blue whale is such a large animal but how big is it? A blue whale's tongue is bigger than a taxi cab and weighs as much as an elephant.
source: http://www.sciensational.com/biology-facts-pg3.html
The Goliath Frog which can be found in Gabon , West Africa is known to be the largest frog in the world. This frog can weigh up to 3 kilograms and grow up to 33 cm long.
The ostrich egg is considered as the world's biggest egg. It takes around 30 chicken eggs to equal its volume. Not only that, if you want a boiled ostrich egg for a meal, it will take you up to two hours to hard boil it.
