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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

dolphin
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open
  • A dolphin has no jaw muscles for chewing
  • A tablespoon of water in a dolphins lung could kill it (Catton, Chris. 1995. Dolphins. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press)
  • The dolphin brain has more folds than a human brain
  • Dolphins do not have a sense of smell, but they can distinguish different tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, salty

domestication
  • In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated… including husbands

Dominique Larrey
  • Dominique Larrey, Napoleon’s chief surgeon, could amputate a leg in 13 seconds.

Donald duck
  • Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because he/it didn’t wear pants

donkey
  • The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its’ heads enables it to see all four feet at all times
  • A female donkey is called a Jennet or Jenny

dragon
  • The serpent dragons were believed to be the first “dragons”
  • There are 3 kinds of dragons, serpent dragons, western dragons, eastern dragons. (ok, i know they don’t exist, but hey… its still interesting)

dragonfly
  • Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances
  • A dragonfly can fly 25 mph
  • A dragonfly is also known as “devil’s darning needle”, “horse stinger” and “devil’s steelyard”

dream
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
  • People who become blind after birth can see pictures in their dreams. People who are born blind dream in terms of smell, touch, sounds and emotion
  • People who are snoring are not dreaming
  • Robert Louis Stevenson wrote “Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde” after dreaming of the story
  • Frankenstein was a character created from a dream
  • The characters in your dreams are all people you have met in the past
  • 1 in 10 people dream in black and white
  • External factors influence your dreams. If your bladder is full, some people dream of going to the toilet
  • Animals can have dreams

duelling
  • Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors


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