Facts!!!! Facts!!!!

• The queen of England does not have the right to vote in any British election.
• The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.
• The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts
• The reason most mosquito bites itch is because mosquitoes inject saliva into the persons skin before they suck your blood. They take it out once they are done, but if they are forced to fly away, they don't get a chance to draw the saliva out. And it is their saliva that causes the itch.
• The red capes used to taunt bulls in bullfights is the same shade of red as the bull's blood. That way you can't tell it is covered with the bull's blood by the end of the fight. Fight spectators like bullfighting, but not blood.`
• The red kangaroo of Australia can jump 27 feet in one bound.
• The red spot on the 7up cans comes from it's inventor. He was an albino (albinos have red eyes).
• The regular garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
• The Ribbon worm will start eating itself to avoid starvation
• The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
• The right lung is slightly larger than the left
• The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port.
• The river Danube empties into the Black Sea.
• The rumble that is created when a Harley's engine runs has been patented by the company
• The Sahara Desert expands at a rate of about 1 km each month.
• The Sahara desert is larger as Europe and large then the combined areas of next largest 9 deserts.
• The sailfish can swim faster than a horse can gallop.
• The saluki is the oldest known breed of domesticated dog. Carvings of animals resembling the saluki have been found in excavations of the Sumerian Empire. They are believed to have originated from between 6,000 and 7,000 B.C.
• The salute of uniform bodies (eg. army, police) originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty.
• The San Diego Zoo in California has the largest collection of animals in the world.
• The saying 'once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month. The last two occurred in January & March 1999. The next one isn't until the end of 2001.
• The search engine "Lycos" is named for Lycosidae, the Latin name for the wolf spider family. Unlike other spiders that sit passively in their web, wolf spiders are hunters, actively stalking their prey.
• The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

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