True Trivia

• Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.

• Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

• The first national park in the USA, Yellowstone, was proclaimed a national park in 1872 however there was no National Park Service until 1916. Until then, the parks were administered by the U.S. Army.  When the Park Service was formed they got their first uniforms from the Army, hence the ranger (campaign) hats.

• Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct. The last so far was the dusky seaside sparrow,  in Brevard County, Florida.

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

• The foreign city most visited by Americans is Tijuana.

• The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

• The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.

• Beaver Cleaver's locker number was #9.

• A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

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