unbfacts: Some zookeepers make “bloodsicles”, as in blood popsicles, for big cats during the summer. Source

unbfacts: In 1909, a man found wild catnip growing and decided to sell it door to door in New York, he incited a feline riot and was arrested for drawing a crowd of cats. Source

unbfacts: Birds have accents based on where they live, just like humans. Source

unbfacts: In 1999, an unemployed woman living with her sister ended up taking a job giving massages to workers at a small tech startup named “Google.” She was only paid $450 a week but was also given stock options. Within 5 years, she was worth millions, and the price of her stock has only continued… Read More »

unbfacts: Since 1988, a dog breeder has been working on The Dire Wolf Project. The goal is creating a breed of loving companion dog that resembles a prehistoric dire wolf. They are enormous, scary, shaggy, and—by all accounts—terribly sweet. Source

unbfacts: Spiders don’t have muscles in their legs. They extend them using a system of hydraulics powered by their blood pressure. When they die, spiders’ legs curl up because the blood pressure is gone. Source

unbfacts: Bats in the US eat so many insects that they save farmers an estimated $23 billion every year on pesticides. Source

unbfacts: In Norway, plastic bottles have return deposits of up to 30 cents each, which has resulted in 97 percent of all plastic bottles being recycled. Public trash cans even have cup holders for recyclable bottles so people who collect them for the deposit don’t have to search through the trash. Source