Animals and Creatures

Bizarre Fact #151:
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A nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs is called a "nidus".

Bizarre Fact #152:
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A parrots beak can close with a force close to 350 pounds per square inch.

Bizarre Fact #153:
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A pelican consumes about 33 and 1/3 percent of its body weight in a single meal.

Bizarre Fact #154:
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A quarter of the horses in the U.S. died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

Bizarre Fact #155:
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A robin's egg is blue, but if you put it in vinegar for thirty days it turns yellow.

Bizarre Fact #156:
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A skark's skeleton is made up of cartilage.

Bizarre Fact #157:
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A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.

Bizarre Fact #158:
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A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons.

Bizarre Fact #159:
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A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only 4 miles per hour. Fish, in contrast, have been clocked at 68 mph.

Bizarre Fact #160:
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A trout swims at about 4 miles per hour which is faster than you or me.