Facts

Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.

Snakes are immune to their own poison.

Snakes have two sex organs... in case one drops off in their fervent attempt to trick females into mating..

'Soldiers disease' is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.

Some biblical scholars believe that Aramaic (the language of the ancient Bible) did not contain an easy way to say 'many things' and used a term which has come down to us as 40. This means that when the bible -in many places -refers to '40 days,' they meant many days.