One expensive Cow

The most paid for a cow was $1.2 million. Her name was Missy and she is a Holstein cow from Canada. She is a show cow of course.

The source of this fact is from wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missy_(cow

Empire State Building

It would take more than 11 Empire State Buildings to equal the depth of the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico. Its deepest point is 14,383 ft (4,384 m) and the Empire State Building is 1,250 ft (381 m) high and has 102 floors. Eleven times 1,250 ft is 13,750 ft.

Other facts about the Empire State Building: It is most famous for the movie King Kong. More than thirty people have committed suicide by jumping off over the years. Its opening coincided with the Great Depression.

Here are the links of the sources = http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bingbin/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_building

Boneless

An elephant’s trunk is not controlled by any bones, but by 40,000 muscles.

Here are the sources for my fact:

http://www.randomfacts.com.au/rf/random_facts/random_animal_facts.html

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant#Trunk

Here is a video of an elephant dragging a log with its trunk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVABxJDLw0w