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 FACTS ABOUT DOGS Most Amazing Facts About Dogs   Humans bred Williams Syndrome into Dogs, when we domesticated wolves. This is characterized by their tendency to love everyone. Dogs have the ability to pick up changes in your scent , this help them figure out how you are feeling. Due to long relationship between humans and dogs, dogs have evolved to understand human laughter. Originally Dogs were listed as not self aware animals because of failure in "Mirror Test". But since dogs are not visually oriented , a new test "sniff test" was developed, and it shows significant evidence of self awareness in dogs. Several studies have shown that dogs can learn up to 200 human words and they can have intellect equivalent of 3 year old human babies. Average life span of dogs is around 10-13 years. The longest living Dog breed is New Guinea singing dog which lives up to 18 years. English Bulldogs, ChowChow and Samoyed are some of the most expen...

Top 10 Fun Facts About Canada 1. In 1948 Canada wasn't going to sent a Hockey team to the Olympics, so the Royal Canadian Air Force sent some servicemen to represent the country, and they won Gold. 2. Canada has one fifth of the world’s freshwater. 3. The Canadian government established one of the most northern settlements in the world by tricking 8 families into living there and then not allowing them to leave. 4. Canada has a little-known, "world class," elite special ops force called Joint Task Force 2, which was the only foreign unit accepted to join top-tier U.S. special operations units in Afghanistan. 5. California has a bigger population than Canada. 6. Canada was so nice to their POW's during World War 2 that almost 20% of them requested to stay after the war. 7. The USA spent 2 years building a fort to protect from Canadian invasion, but it was accidentally built in Canada. They abandoned construction and called it Fort Blunder. 8. ...

Top 10 Most Interesting Unknown Facts about Japan 1. Japan has a sociological phenomena known as "Hikikomori", in which there's an estimated 1 million Japanese who choose to completely isolate themselves from society by rarely or never leaving their homes. 2. In Japan, '39' is common text speak for 'thank you', due to how 3 (san) and 9 (kyu) sound when spoken out loud. 3. Traditional Japanese calendars have 24 15-day seasons split into 72 five-day microseasons. Right now is "Farmers drain fields," followed by "Wild geese return" and "Chrysanthemums bloom."  4. In Japan, death by overwork is so common that they have a word for it, "Karoshi". Some examples of karoshi are: working 110 hours a week, working 3000 hours a year with no days off in 15 years, working 4320 hours a year, and working 34 hour shifts five times a month. 5. Kyoto, the former capital of Japan, just means "capital city" a...

Most Interesting Random Facts 1. 'Kung-Fu Panda' (2008) was so successful in China that it caused a national debate on why Westerners made a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves. 2. 85% of bikinis sold never touch the water. 3. India consumes almost as much whisky as the rest of the world put together. Instead of Scotch, Indians drink local varieties bearing Scottish-sounding names, such as McDowell’s or Bagpiper, that are made from molasses.  4. When humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by "cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone". 5. Due to the historically long bond between dogs and humans, dogs have evolved to understand human laughter. 6. Apples you buy in the grocery store are 5-12 months old. They are stored in a special low temperature, low oxygen (2%) environment, which preserves the nutritional content of the fruit. 7. C...