1. According to legend, when Burmese women are making beer, they need to avoid having sex or the beer will be bitter.

  2. According to National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalyan peaks to grow slightly each year

  3. According to Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.

  4. A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.

  5. A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

  6. A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a span minute span.

  7. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

  8. A mongoose is not a goose but more like a meercat, which is not a cat but more like a prairie dog, which is not a dog but more like a ground squirrel.

  9. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

  10. A mosquito will become restless and start flying around if there is an increase of carbon dioxide in the surrounding air

  11. A mother in Sydney, Australia, gave birth to twins 56 days apart and in different years; one was born in 17th December'1952 and the other on 10th February'1953.

  12. A mule is a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse. A hinnie is yada yada a female donkey and a male horse.

  13. A murder is committed in the US every 23 minutes, which makes about 22852 murders each year.

  14. A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.

  15. A magic potion or charm thought to arouse sexual love, especially toward a specific person, is known as a "philter."

  16. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

  17. A male moth can smell a female moth from 100 yards away.

  18. A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

  19. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years

  20. A Manatee (Dugong) has very slow-clotting blood, and important in finding out about haemophilia.

  21. A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.

  22. A mark twain, a nautical measurement of depth, is equal to twelve feet.

  23. A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7 ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking.

  24. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

  25. A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans around 70%

  26. A jellyfish is 95% water.

  27. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

  28. A kangaroo can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.

  29. A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.

  30. A Kentucky statute states, "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."

  31. A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.

  32. A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain "bad blood" from sick patients.

  33. A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.

  34. A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its ass.

  35. A herd of forty-five thirsty, rambunctious elephants stampeded into a brewery in Midnapore, where they smashed vats and slurped up beer in a bender that went on for two days.

  36. A hinny is the offspring of a female donkey.

  37. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man can.

  38. A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

  39. A honey bee must tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey

  40. A honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. A pound of honey consists of 29,184 drops.

  41. A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.

  42. A horse can sleep standing up.

  43. A Horse has 18 more bones than a Human.

  44. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

  45. A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).

  46. A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated.

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