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Penguins can jump as high as six feet in the air.
All polar bears are left-handed.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly carrying it.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog vomits its entire stomach out so the organ is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and swallows the stomach back down again.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
Slugs have four noses.
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New York City boasts a 520-mile long coastline.
This distance goes longer than the combined coasts of Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco.
New York City is home to the first headquarters of the United Nations.
It was established in 1952 after the end of World War II as a designated international territory.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years there were no reported cases of an ostrich burying its head in the sand.
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The first native people to occupy New York were the Lenape.
As members of the Algonquin community, these people farmed, fished, and hunted in the area connecting the Delaware and Hudson rivers.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.
In 1624, the Dutch West India Company sent people to modern-day Governors Island.
The 30 families sent lived and worked in a tiny settlement on what was then called ‘Nutten Island’ in New Amsterdam.
Some dogs can predict when a child will have an epileptic seizure and even protect the child from injury. They're not trained to do this, they simply learn to respond after observing at least one attack.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The first name of New York City was ‘New Amsterdam.’
It was the city’s name until 1664 when the British seized the territory from the Dutch and branded it new with ‘New York City.’ For the following century, New York City witnessed growth in the number and diversity of its population. Aside from immigrants from England, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, there were also indentured servants and African slaves.
The population density of New York City is 27,000 people per sq mi.
Not only does the number make it among the densest major cities in the U.S., but it also includes over 40% of the entire population of the state of New York.
NYC is the city with the most billionaires in the world.
Over 500,000 millionaires reside in the city as well. In other words, New York City is the hot spot for the world’s richest.
In the winter of 1780, New York Harbor froze.
The winter of that year was so harsh to the point that people can walk from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice of the New York Harbor.
New York City was witness to one of the first acts of domestic terrorism.
Back in 1920, a horse-drawn carriage trotted down Wall Street. The explosives that it carried killed 30 people upon detonation. However, no one was caught and held accountable for the terrorist attack.
A Straw Hat Riot broke out in New York City in 1922.
An unofficial rule in the city prohibited the wearing of straw hats past September 15. However, some stubborn kids schemed of snatching hats a few days prior to the allowed date. It caused an uprising among the people which lasted a few days.
This was cute. So if I call someone a twit...
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
There are only three types of snakes on the island of Tasmania and all three are deadly poisonous.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.