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*Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

*The pet food company Ralston Purina recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting, which is popular in many areas of the world.

*According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that.

*The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

*Deer can't eat hay.

*The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

*North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.

*You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

*Most toilets flush in E flat.

*No one knows where Mozart is buried.

*The horse's name in the song Jingle Bells is Bobtail.

*Beethoven's Fifth, was the first symphony to include trombones.

*The Japanese national anthem is expressed in only four lines. The Greek anthem runs 158 verses.

*At age 4, Mozart composed a concerto for the clavier.

*Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

*You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.

*In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell doughnut holes.

*Under the law of Mississippi, there's no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.

*Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.

*In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

*Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

*It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)

*According to law, no store is allowed to sell a toothbrush on the Sabbath in Providence, Rhode Island. Yet these same stores are allowed to sell toothpaste and mouthwash on Sundays.

*Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.

*Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."

*An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

*In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.

*In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

*Wetaskiwin, Alberta from 1917: "It's against the law to tie a male horse next to a female horse on Main Street."

*In Riverside, California, there is an old law on the city's books which makes it illegal to kiss unless both people wipe their lips with rose water.

*In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.