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Unbelievable facts


  1. Louis Armstrong was a famous trumpeter and singer.
  2. 'Hello, dolly ' is one of his greatest hits.
  3. Armstrong won the Grammy award for song of the year in 1965.
  4. His life is chronicled in 'Satchmo: The life of Louis Armstrong ' which was directed by Gary Giddins.
  5. House flies find sugar with their feet, which are 10 million times more sensitive than our tongues.
  6. The bumblebee bat is the worlds smallest mammal.
  7. The eagle is the national bird of the US, but if Benjamin Franklin bad bat his way, it would have been the turkey.
  8. Grasshopper can leap as high as ten times its length. If a person could do that, he (or) she would be able to jump as high as a five-story building.
  9. Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
  10. The two-foot long bird called a kea that lives in a New Zealand, likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

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