10 Percent of men are left-handed while only 8 percent of women are left-handed.
 

7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 straw fulls of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.

A recent Gallup poll shows that 69 percent of Americans believe they will go somewhere after death.

A study by researcher Frank Hu and the Harvard School of Public Health found that women who snore are at an increased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

A study of New York marathoners a few years ago found that their divorce rate - male and female - was twice the national average.

According to a 1995 poll, 1 out of 10 people admitted that they will buy an outfit intending to wear it once and return it.

According to a poll, only 29 percent of married couples agree on most political issues. 

According to a recent poll, 39% of the people interviewed admitted that they snoop in their host's medicine cabinets.

In Russia, dogs have been trained to sniff out ore deposits that contain iron sulfides.

The fur of the Vicuna, a small member of the camel family which live in the Andes mountains of Peru, is so fine that each hair is less than two thousandths of an inch. The animal was considered sacred by the Incas, and only royalty could wear its fleece.

It is claimed that the wild turkey can reach running speeds of 30 m.p.h. 

The Garfish has green bones.

It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest.

The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty-five pounds, is two feet long, and has walls up to three inches thick.

It may take more than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.

Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.

Antlers and horns are not the same. Horns grow throughout an animal's life and are found on both the male and female of a species. Antlers, composed of a different chemical substance, are shed every year.

Arabian horses have one less vertebra in their backbones than other horses. 

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same manner men do.
Because baby pigs grow so quickly, a succession of 48 little pigs were used in the title role during the filming of the 1995 movie hit "Babe."

Because its tongue is too short for its beak, the toucan must juggle its food before swallowing it. 

Because of the giant panda's large size and the small size of their offspring, it is difficult to tell when a panda is pregnant.