Did you know...?

Fire Opal · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 3050

Dat's fast!

Did you know that Pronghorns are the best high-speed endurance runners of all mammals; they can sustain a speed of about 40 mph over distances greater than 6.2 miles.

sandtiger · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 8581

Did you know that Whippets are the fastest breed of dog at 35 miles per an hour?

wolfgirl159357 · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 19967

yup yup,

Did you know that the Savannah breed of cat is belived to be a close relitive of the Ocelot?

Fire Opal · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 3050

Did you know that the world's most expensive cat breed, the Ashera, is just a regular Savannah sold under another name?

barbaro800 · Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Posts: 1856

thats pathetic....

Did you know that the cat population reached 68 million in 1996?

wolfgirl159357 · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 19967

wow thats alot of kittehs :p

Did you know that hte Savannah is illegal in 7 states in the US

barbaro800 · Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Posts: 1856

Did you know that it is illegal to film police officers while on duty?

(i dont get why...o.O)

wolfgirl159357 · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 19967

wow strange, then i have seem alot of illegal tapes, lol

Did you know that in Chattanoga Tennessee a american bulldog tore off a plice cars bumper : D

Vitani · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6665

I saw video of that...Kudos to the cop who could have, but didn't shoot him!

Did you know...

Iroquois, bred at Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation, was the first American winner of the English Derby in 1881. Such modern thoroughbreds as Secretariat trace their bloodlines to Iroquois?

Fire Opal · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 3050

Did you know that horse racing has been proven to have a higher fatality rate than all other legal human and animal sports?

Vitani · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6665

That sadly doesn't surprise me Sad

Did you know...

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs?

Crying or Very sad

Fire Opal · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 3050

They'd be butchered for meat anyway, so it's a good use of the entire animal. But gosh, what happens to all those footballs?

Did you know that it is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cow's knees cannot bend properly to walk back down?

Vitani · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 6665

Well thats what I thought...I know the leather is there anyway, but how many footballs per cow? 4? 5? Thats alot of freaking footballs Shocked

And I knew that, about stairs....I want to know how they found that out lol!

Did you know...

There are 354 stairs leading up to the Statue of Liberty's crown?

What a random number..

wolfgirl159357 · Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 19967

I would pass out halfway up XD

Did you know that the statue of liberty, is made of bronze, i belive, if i can remember right Smile

Fire Opal · Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 3050

Did you know that the largest equestrian statue on earth, a statue of Genghis Khan on a horse back in Mongolia, has a height of 131 feet on a 33 foot high base?