Cows Facts

Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.

A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.

In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

In 1984, a Canadian farmer named Murray Chicken began renting ad space on his cows, pioneering a bizarre form of outdoor advertising.

You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

Cows have best friends and get stressed when they are separated.

Cows can easily walk up stairs, but find it incredibly difficult and generally avoid walking down them due to their anatomy and poor depth perception.

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

In 2002, Kenyan Maasai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US to help with the aftermath of 9/11.

Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.

Grady was a 1,200-pound Oklahoma cow. In February 1949 she bolted for the only light in a dark shed and squeezed through a 17-inch-wide silo window. She was stuck for four days: the steel-rimmed opening wouldn't widen. 5,400 letters and 700 telegrams poured in from 45 states. A Denver newspaper flew in farm expert Ralph Partridge, who greased a ramp and freed her. She lived 12 more years as a celebrity.