It’s not just humans who are right or left-handed. Most female cats prefer using their right paw, and males are more likely to be left-pawed.
100 Mind-Blowing Female Facts
Octopuses only touch in situations of mating or aggression. Female octopuses sometimes do both, strangling and eating the male after mating.
There are no visual differences between male and female herons.
“She sells seashells by the Seashore” was written about a female palaeontologist from the 1800s. She sold dinosaur bones and fossilized shells.
Victoria’s Secret was originally supposed to be a store for men to shop for their female partners without feeling embarrassed.
The word “peacock” does not apply to both male and female birds. It’s only the males that are called peacocks, while the females are called peahens. Together, the collective name for them is “peafowl.”
A female’s heart is smaller than a male’s by about 25%. Because of this, the female heart has to beat around six times more than the male heart to pump the correct amount of blood around the body.
Most ginger cats are male. There are roughly three ginger male cats to one ginger female. This is because the ginger gene is found on the X chromosome, meaning female cats would require two copies of the gene to become ginger whilst males only need one.
Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California, was designed by female architect Julia Morgan. In 1919, she was hired by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst to design a main building and guest houses for his ranch, but she ended up purchasing everything from Spanish antiquities to Icelandic moss to reindeer for the Castle’s zoo, which was once the world’s largest private zoo.
Turkeys can blush. When turkeys are scared or excited—like when the males see a female they’re interested in—the pale skin on their head and neck turns bright red, blue, or white. The flap of skin over their beaks called a snood, also reddens. By the way, this is why the president pardons a turkey every Thanksgiving.
Pregnancy tests date back to 1350 B.C.E. According to a document written on ancient papyrus, Egyptian women urinated on wheat and barley seeds to determine if they were pregnant or not, reports the Office of History in the National Institutes of Health. If wheat grew, it predicted a female baby. If barley grew, it predicted a male baby. The woman was not pregnant if nothing grew. Experimenting with this seed theory in 1963 proved it was accurate 70 per cent of the time.
Rudolph the Reindeer is female. This can be observed through their antlers. Female deer shed their antlers in the spring and grow them back to full size by winter. The male reindeer stops its growth during the winter.
Male bees can only mate once. After mating with a female, the male bee’s endophallus is removed. Its abdomen also rips open and results in the male bee’s death. Now that’s what we call a bad date.
Shakira was rejected from her elementary choir group. Her music teacher at the time stated that her vibrato was too strong and that she sounded like a goat. Little did she know that this student would grow up to become one of the most inspirational female pop singers of all time.
Male rabbits are called bucks. The male rabbits tend to be more friendly and relaxed while female rabbits often come off as more aggressive.
Women buy 96% of the candles produced. According to a survey, 4% of men who buy candles are either buying it as a gift or for a female they are related to.
Only female mosquitoes bite you. Need some insects did you know the facts? No problem. Only female mosquitoes bite us because the required nutrition from their victim’s blood is needed to develop their eggs. Male mosquitoes feed on the nectar of flowers.
Ferrets will die after a year of no sex. No nut November, who? Female ferrets mature sexually at 4-6 months of age. When they go into heat, they stay that way until they breed. However, prolonged estrogen increase may lead to aplastic anemia which can lead to death.
At Harvard University, there is a book made with human skin. One of the WTF facts that’ll make your skin crawl: Since the 1930s, Des destinees de l’ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Harvard’s Houghton Library. The author, Arsene Houssaye reportedly gave the book to his friend, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, in the mid-1880s. Dr. Bouland allegedly bound the book with skin from an unclaimed female patient who died of natural causes.
Praying mantis mating is deadly… literally. Then, the female mantis will proceed to devour the male’s corpse for nourishment.
Flamingos produce milk – kind of. No, they don’t have mammary glands – but flamingos can produce a certain “milk” from their upper digestive tracts. Both male and female flamingos produce crop milk to feed their chicks. This concoction contains protein, fat, and red and white blood cells.
The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972.
Lionesses, the female lions, do most of the hunting for pride and work together to take down large animals like zebras and wildebeests.
Female lions are responsible for raising the cubs, teaching them how to hunt, and protecting them from predators.
A sea lion is the first nonhuman mammal with a proven ability to keep a beat. Scientists trained a female sea lion named Ronan to do it, and she then showed she could transfer that skill to a song with a different beat that she had not heard before.
Male gentoo and Adelie penguins “propose” to females by giving them a pebble. These are precious because the penguins use them to build their nests, and they can be hard to find along the barren Antarctic shoreline. If the female accepts the pebble, the pair bonds and mates for life.
Warmer weather causes more turtles to be born female than male.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
The female hummingbird builds the world’s smallest bird’s nest (approximately 1.5 inches in diameter, around the size of a walnut!). She weaves it from spiderwebs which allows it to expand as the chicks grow.
The most medals won for Olympic basketball (male or female) are both held by women: Teresa Edwards and Lisa Leslie with four gold medals each.
For almost all kinds of reindeer, both male and female reindeer have antlers. Females shed their antlers when they give birth in the spring.
Female sloths are pregnant for six months.
There are no male or female Earthworms. All Earthworms have both male and female parts – but it still takes two of them to reproduce.
The familiar ‘twit-twoo’ sound of the tawny owl comes from a male and female pair. The female’s main call is the ‘twit’ or ‘kewick’ sound, while the male’s reply is the loud ‘twoo’ or hooting sound.
A female housefly lays batches of around 100–150 white eggs and may lay more than 500 eggs in her lifetime of just a few days.
Both male and female pigeons produce a substance called crop milk to feed their chicks. Very few birds have this rare ability, just greater flamingos, emperor penguins, pigeons and doves.
Female axolotls lay up to 1,000 eggs at a time. That’s a lot of baby axolotls! These eggs sink to the bed of the lake or river and hatch after around two weeks, with the babies left to fend for themselves right out of the egg.
A female chicken will mate with many different males. If she decides later that she doesn’t want a particular rooster’s offspring, she can eject his sperm. This happens most often when the male is lower in the pecking order.
The black dot on the inside surface of a monarch’s wing distinguishes the male monarch butterfly from the female, which has no spot.
“Android” is gender-specific. The word “Android” literally means a human with a male robot appearance. The female equivalent of this word is a “Gynoid.”
The first photo ever uploaded to the Internet was of a comedy band. A four-piece all-female parody pop group lays claim to being in the first photo to ever be uploaded to the Internet. The group, called “Les Horribles Cernettes,” were colleagues with Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. He asked them for some scanned photos of their band so he could publish them online, and history was made!
The Boston Marathon didn’t allow female runners until 1972. The first woman to finish the Boston Marathon, Roberta Gibb, actually ran the race a few years earlier in 1966. She hid in some bushes until the race started to avoid detection and then ran the marathon without any official sanction. Another woman, Katherine Switzer, didn’t declare herself a woman when she competed in 1967 and was allowed to enter the race. When it became apparent that she wasn’t a man, the officials unsuccessfully tried to stop her from competing. It wasn’t until the fall of 1971 when the Amateur Athletics Union allowed women to compete, which made 1972’s marathon the first to officially allow female entrants. Eight women competed in the 1972 Boston Marathon, and all eight completed it, with Nina Kuscsik claiming the first official female victory.
Surprising the sexists. Suffragist life partners, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, both qualified doctors, attempted to join the armed forces medical services on the outbreak of war in 1914 but were not allowed to serve because of their sex. So they set up an independent hospital to treat wounded soldiers, with all-female staff, surgeons, anaesthesiologists and nurses. It rapidly became regarded as the best in the UK.
At first glance, only 4-5% of Ubuntu users are female but Canonical believes that percentage to be higher in reality.
Margaret Thatcher was the first female British prime minister.
During the 1800s, the name Mary was so popular that nearly half of the female population was named Mary.
Most Americans Hoard Their Spare Change: One recent survey by MyBankTracker.com found that 55.5% of people do nothing with the loose change they’ve accumulated. Interestingly, 60.3% of the male respondents said they were more likely to leave their extra coins untouched compared to 51% of the female respondents. Another survey from Coinstar says people estimate they’ve got an average of $113 worth of coins in and around their homes.
AI-enabled voice assistants will not be female by default anymore.