The 21 gun salute began in the 17th century,when British navy ships carried 7 guns. They fired all of them as a salute before arriving in port,and the soldiers on shore had to fire three times what the navy did in reply...
The pose of the horse in a statue is not simply an artist's conception. If you see a statue of a person on a horse with both front legs of the horse in the air, it means that the person died in battle. One front leg in the air signifies that the person died as a result of the wounds received in battle. If all 4 legs of the horse rest on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Tiger's Fur The tiger's fur pattern is like a human fingerprint, no two tigers have the same stripes. The Sumatran tiger has the darkest fur of all tiger subspecies and is also the tiger with the most facial fur. It is interesting to know that tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
If you could drive that distance in a car at 60 miles (96 km) per hour, it would take you 177 years of nonstop driving to get to the sun.
Some bats can eat 500 mosquitoes every hour.
Pitohuis birds, which live only in New Guinea, have poison in their skin and feathers.
Cockroaches can go without eating for three months, as long as they have water.
Cockroaches can eat many different foods, including your peanut butter sandwich, your fingernail clippings, and especially your math book (they like the glue in the binding).
The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, which can grow up to nine feet tall.
One kind of bamboo can grow almost three feet (1 m) in one day.