Debrain – Amazing facts, random facts, interesting facts

ostrich

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain
Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water
Ostriches can only kick forward
The Ostrich people in Africa are a group of people who have only 2 toes due to inbreeding (From Ripley’s believe it or not)
In a study of over 200,000 ostriches over 80 years, noone has ever seen an ostrich bury its head in the sand

You can only tell the gender of a Macaw through an operation. They lack exterior genetials.

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
A chicken’s heart beats 300 times a minute
Hens can lay an egg a day, with the world record held by a White Leghorn who laid 371 eggs in 364 days!
The first domestic chicken was the Gallus Gallus over 8000 years ago
America eats 8 BILLION chickens a year
Hens lay bigger and stronger eggs if they think a day is 28 hours long
Chickens actually have different clucks for different predators
Most chickens live in China
The chicken is the closest living relative of the T-rex
The US National Chicken Council =D estimated people to consume 80 pounds of chicken per person per year. Beef if 63 pounds
The waste produced by 1 chicken in its lifetime can generate enough electricity to run a 100 Watt bulb for 5 hours

Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilie or Nandos peri-peri sauce, as they not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilie
The shadow bird always builds a 3-room nest. The third section is the nursery; the second is a pantry; and in the first, the male parent stands guard against intruders
Birds of prey like castros are able to keep their head steady during flight in order to have better image stabilization to localize prey
Hawkes and eagles have visual acuity more than 3 times that of humans