Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock"was the first use of a rock and roll song in a Hollywood film. Blackboard Jungle 1955

The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.

Ukraine is the largest country entirely on the continent of Europe. Ukraine has a total area of 603,628 square km.



Putin just wants peace


A piece of the Ukraine, evidently. :o

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Holes in Swiss cheese are carefully regulated by the USDA. Holes are not allowed to be larger than 3/8 of an inch

In Spain, the Danish saint and king, Knud the Holy, is the saint for parking spaces.
His help can be invoked with a little prayer "San Canuto, San Canuto, que encuentre sitio en un minuto", which can be translated to "Sankt Knud, Sankt Knud, get me a parking space in a minute."
However, students celebrate him as the patron saint of cannabis smoking, the reason for the last "saint area" is that his name in Spanish, "Canuto", is a slang term for joint.

Markus

Emus and kangaroos can't walk backwards.

Cheese takes up about 1/10 the volume of the milk it was made from


No whey!!

Cats have over 100 vocal sounds; dogs only have 10.

There were no banks in the United States until after the Revolutionary War.

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet (91 m) long in just one night.

Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.

Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.

Elizabeth Taylor was born with a genetic "defect". She had a double row of eyelashes, which incidentally added to the striking nature of her eyes.

Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.