Do you know that?

• Ancestors of the horse were only about a foot tall 60 million years ago.

• The word 'Oranngutan' was not originally intended to refer to an ape. It was the malay term for savage people of the Sunda islands & literally meant "man of the woods".

• For distances upto 150 feet, an Alligator can outrun a man.

• Children grow faster in springtime.

• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

• It has been found out by Canadian Researchers that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

• Singer Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake - they were knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.

• Barbie's full name is "Barbara Millicent Roberts."

• Basketball star Michael Jordan makes more money from "Nike" annually than all Nike Factory workers in Malaysia combined.

• William Shakespeare invented the word "Assassination" and "Bump".

• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

• President John F Kennedy could read 4 Newspapers in 20 minutes.

• Celebrity Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

• The Nobel Prize Winning Scientist Marie Curie, discoverer of Radium, died of Radiation Poisoning.

• If you multiply 111,111,111 by 111,111,111 you will get 12,345,678,987,654,321.

• If you multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9), and then multiply the result by 3, every digit in the answer will be the same as the first single number.

• The word "Stressed" is the word "Desserts" spelled backwards.

• The name of the famous cartoon hero "Zorro" implies "Fox" in Spanish.

• "FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION" is the longest word in English dictionary.

• The fear of beards is called "POGONOPHOBIA".

• The term "GOODBYE" originates from "God Bye" which in turn came from "GOD BE WITH YOU".

• Country of Canada derives its name from the Indian word meaning "Big Village".

• A sea squirt found in the Japanese sea digests its own brain.

• Bombyx mori, a silkworm moth, has been cultivated for so long that it can no longer exist without human care. Because it has been domesticated, it has lost the ability to fly.

• Drosophila, the small fruit-fly, has been warmly received by the scientific community, mainly owing to the giant-sized chromosomes possessed by the cells of its salivary glands. These chromosomes, which can stretch to more than a mile long when unraveled, allow scientists to study DNA using only a sheet of white paper and a bright table lamp.

• A flea is capable of jumping 13 inches in a single leap. In human terms, this would be equivalent to a person leaping 700 feet in one bound.

• A mosquito, engorged on blood, is able to fly carrying a load twice its own weight.

• At one "sitting," a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.

• Bees can see ultraviolet light.

• Bugs hold special places in the hearts of many Japanese, who often keep crickets, beetles and fireflies as pets. Their calls are considered soothing and remind the nature-loving Japanese of a simpler, less hectic age.

• Cicadas have their hearing organs in their stomachs, at the base of the abdomen. Crickets have their hearing organs in their knees, or, more precisely, in the oval slit of their forelegs.

• The average life expectancy of a queen bee is 6 years, a worker bee, 6 months, and a drone, just 8 weeks.

• The caterpillar of the monarch butterfly will eventually multiply its original weight by 2,700 times. If a 7-pound newborn human gained weight at the same rate, as an adult, it would weigh well over 9 tons.

• Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plants, lock their mandibles into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and, with legs dangling, fall asleep.

• Migrating geese fly in a V-formation to save energy. A goose's wings churn the air and leave an air current behind. In the flying wedge, each bird is in position to get a lift from the current left by the bird ahead. It is easier going for all, except the leader. During a migration, geese are apt to take turns in the lead position.

• A green flash is sometimes seen just as the Sun sets or rises. This is caused because green light is bent most strongly by the atmosphere. So the green is seen before other colors at sunrise, and after the other colors have vanished at sunset.

• The kakapo is a nocturnal burrowing parrot of New Zealand that has a green body with brown and yellow markings. Its name is from Maori and means "night parrot."

• Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range, one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant's body.

• Many sharks lay soft-shelled eggs but hammerheads give birth to live young that look like miniature versions of their parents. Young hammerheads are often born headfirst, with the tip of their hammerhead folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

• The fastest insect on record, that has been reliably measured, is the Australian dragon fly – which has a top speed of around 57 km/h. Contrary to popular myth, the deer botfly CANNOT fly faster than a jet plane. It would be crushed by the pressure.

• The caterpillar has more than 2,000 muscles.

• The bumblebee does not die when it stings – it can sting again and again. In bumblebee hives, the entire colony, except for the queen, dies at the end of each summer. Each year, an entirely new colony of bees must be produced.

• Contrary to popular myth, flies DO exist in Alaska. In fact, there are almost no WORMS in Alaska, and the flies fill that ecological niche — birds of many species are seen feeding on flies and maggots. Fish even eat the maggots from rotting salmon in the streams.

• The average airspeed of the common housefly is 4.5 miles per hour. A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.

• Some insects, after their head is severed, may live for as much as a year. They react automatically to light, temperature, humidity, chemicals, and other stimuli.

• A bee has five eyes, two large compound eyes on either side of its head, and three ocelli (primitive eyes) on top of its head to detect light intensity.

• A male emperor moth can detect and find a female of his species a mile away.

• After mating, the female black widow spider turns on her partner and devours him. The female may dispatch as many as 25 suitors a day in this manner.

• Assuming that all the offspring survived, 190,000,000,000,000,000,000 flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.

• Between 20,000 and 60,000 bees live in a single hive. The queen bee lays nearly 1,500 eggs a day and lives for up to 2 years. The drone, whose only job it is to mate with the queen bee, has a lifespan of around 24 days and has no stinger. Worker bees — all sterile females — usually work themselves to death within 40 days, collecting pollen and nectar. Worker bees will fly up to 9 miles (14 km) to find pollen and nectar, flying at speeds as fast as 15 mph (24 km/h).

• Cockroaches have quite a capacity for survival. If the head of one is removed carefully, so as to prevent it from bleeding to death, the cockroach can survive for several weeks. When it dies, it is from starvation.

• The common male housefly completes its entire life cycle in just 17 days.

• Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.

• The white elephant is the sacred animal of Thailand.

• Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438, wolves roamed the streets of Paris.

• There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).

• You can identify a grizzly bear's mark by the sign of five claws. A black bear will lacerate a tree trunk with four claws.

• Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.

• The jackrabbit is not a rabbit; it is a hare.

• The evolution of social life in ants and termites has been accompanied by an extraordinary royal perk — a 100-fold increase among queen ants in average maximum lifespan, with some queens surviving for almost 30 years. This longevity can be attributed in part to the sheltered and pampered life of the royal egg layer.

• The buzzing of flies and bees is not produced by any sound-producing apparatus within the insects' bodies. It is simply the sound of their wings moving up and down at a rapid rate.

• Cockroaches have lived on the Earth for 250 million years without changing in any way whatsoever.

• The average house fly lives only two weeks.

• Spiders have transparent blood.

• At one time in Scotland, witches were suspected of assuming the form of red butterflies.

• A spider is not an insect. It is an arachnid – it has eight legs instead of six, and has no wings or antennae. The same is true of the daddy longlegs, scorpion's mite, and tick – none is technically part of the insect class.

• A bee could travel 4 million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar.

• A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

• According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the best time to spray household insects is 4:00 p.m. Insects are most vulnerable at this time.

• Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

• Biologists have discovered that cockroaches can change course as many as 25 times in one second, making them the most nimble animals known.

• the are more different kinds of insects on existence today than the total of all kinds of other animals put together.

• Centipedes, or members of the class Chilopoda, always have an uneven number of pairs of walking legs, varying from 15 to more than 171 pairs. Common house centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrato) have 15 pairs of legs.

• The bombardier beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a series of explosions, sometimes setting off four or five in succession. The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are followed by a cloud of reddish-colored, vile-smelling fluid.

• Eighty percent of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.

• The whistling swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.

• Wood frogs are freeze-tolerant and spend winters frozen on land, only to thaw in the spring and begin their breeding process in vernal ponds.

• Soy milk, the liquid left after beans have been crushed in hot water and strained, is a favorite beverage in the East. In Hong Kong, soy milk is as popular as Coca-Cola is in the U.S.

• Mice, Whales, Elephants, Giraffes, and Humans all have seven neck vertebra.

• A bumble bee flaps its wings 160 beats per second.

• A fly can react to something it sees and change direction in 30 milliseconds.

• A mature, well-established termite colony with as many as 60,000 members will eat only about one-fifth of an ounce of wood a day.

• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

• An average bee hive has 30,000 to 60,000 bees living in it. This population is easily maintained by a queen laying 1,000 to 3,000 eggs per day.

• Australian scientists have identified some species of baby spiders that bite off the limbs of their mothers and slowly dine on them over a period of weeks. The researchers hypothesize the maternal sacrifice keeps the young from eating one another.

• Spiders never spin webs in structures made of chestnut wood. That is why so many European chateaux were built with chestnut beams – spider webs on a 50-foot beamed ceiling can be difficult to clean.

• Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

• Doctors in ancient India used insect mandibles instead of stitches to bind the two sides of a cut together. The head of a large ant would be removed and its pincers would be brought together through the patient's flesh.

• The female salamander inseminates herself. At mating time, the male deposits a conical mass of jellylike substance containing the sperm. The female draws the jelly into herself, and in so doing fertilizes her eggs.

• The average giraffe's blood pressure is two or three times that of a healthy man.

• Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.

• Daddy longlegs are not spiders and do not bite.

• The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

• Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and white worms like fried pork rinds.

• Australia is home to 350 different kinds of butterflies.

• A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.

• A grasshopper can leap over obstacles 500 times its own height. In relation to its size, it has the greatest jumping ability of all animals.

• A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.

• A winkle is an edible sea snail.

• Ants keep slaves. Certain species, the so-called sanguinary ants for example, raid the nests of other ant tribes, kill the queen, and kidnap many of the workers. The workers are brought back to the captors' hive, where they are coerced into performing menial tasks.

• Tarantulas can survive on a diet of one large insect a month.

• Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

• The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is 12 years.

• Termite queens are fertilized regularly by the same mate for life, unlike bee and ant queens, whose male partners die after the first and only mating.

• An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, which is equivalent to a human being pulling a 10-ton trailer.

• A dragonfly can fly 25 mph.

• A queen bee may lay as many as 3,000 eggs in a single day.

• A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

• A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus."

• An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.

• The American lobster can move through the water at a rate of up to 25 feet a second.

• An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.

• A 27-inch-high silver America's Cup holds no liquid – it is bottomless.

• According to manufacturer Spalding, the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.

• According to research conducted a few years back, billiards champions have the highest average age of any sport, 35.6 years.

• According to the official rules of baseball, no umpire may be replaced during a game unless he is injured or becomes ill.

• After his infamous 1997 ear-biting attack on Evander Holyfield, the Hollywood Wax Museum moved boxer Mike Tyson's figure to the Chamber of Horrors – next to the figure of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (from The Silence of the Lambs).

• Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.

• An expert fly fisherman may have as many as 10,000 flies in his collection.

• Babe Ruth was one of only two people (Reggie Jackson being the other) to ever hit three home runs in a World Series game, and is the only one to do it twice (1926 and 1928).

• Badminton was first recognized as an official sport in the Olympic Games during the 1992 Summer Games. More than 1.1 billion people watched badminton's Olympic debut on TV.

• Badminton was once known as battledore and shuttlecock. The game as we know it today took its name from Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England – home of the Duke of Beaufort.

• Baseball great Yogi Berra who was a catcher for the New York Yankees from 1946–1963, was enlisted in the Navy during World War II and participated in the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

• L. Frank Baum, the author of the "The Wizard of Oz," couldn't swim. He always smoked a cigar when he was wading in the water so he could tell when he was getting in too deep.

• "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.

• The country of Tonga once issued a stamp shaped like a banana.

• Most lipsticks contain fish scales.

• The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

• "Erin go bragh" means "Ireland forever."

• After his death in 1937, Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph was honored by broadcasters worldwide as they let the airwaves fall silent for two minutes in his memory.

• Bill Gates formed a company to sell a computerized traffic counting system to cities, which made $20,000 its first year. Business dropped sharply when customers learned Gates was only 14 years old.

• 26th June 2000 is a landmark day in the history of the world - the code of codes, the blueprint of life itself, was decided with the announcement of the 'working draft' of the combined research HUMAN GENOME PROJECT and Celera Genomics - the entire DNA of the human race has not been successfully mapped.