Some Interesting Facts

1. A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
2. Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
3. Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
4. Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task.
5. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years.
6. You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
7. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
8. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
9. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
10. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

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