dogs
- Laika the dog, was the first living thing sent into orbit
- Not mentioned was that Laika died within 7 hours of launch. This fact was only revealed almost 50 years later
- A human’s scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog’s is about the size of a handkerchief. It’s olfactory lobe is also 4 times that of a human. Thanx liz chell
- It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer. It’s in a journal on Lancet
- Since you started reading these facts, 3000 puppies were born in the U.S.A
- At birth, a dalmatian puppy is always pure white
- Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian
- Dogs and cats consume more than US$11 billion worth of pet food a year
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Comment from Steve
Laika was *not* the first “living thing” sent into space. She was not even the first mammal in space. She was, however, the first animal sent into orbit. The first living things sent into space were fruit flies and monkeys, mice and other dogs beat Laika into space.