Man vs. Cartoon: Do Coyotes Really Eat Roadrunners? on truTV.com

Man vs. Cartoon

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Road Runners:
Real road runners are fast enough to catch and eat rattlesnakes.
They prefer running to flying and can run up to about 17 MPH on the ground (they fly to avoid earthbound predators).
They are the state bird of New Mexico.
They do not say "beep beep," but instead make a cooing sound.
Coyotes:
Coyotes have an eclectic diet and have been known to eat small mammals, large insects, birds, snakes, lizards, deer, livestock and household pets.
While they do kill road runners, the bird is not a mainstay of their diet.
Coyotes rarely kill human beings, although a few cases of them biting small children are reported each year.
In 2007, a coyote walked into a Chicago sandwich shop.
Random Tidbits:
Fast and Furry-ous (1949) was the first cartoon featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.
The mass of the earth is about 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons.
Galileo began studying physics as a teenager after he noticed a chandelier swinging during an earthquake.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time, that can mean either 1/50 of a second, 1/100^th of a second or one billionth of a second.
Glass cracks at a speed of about 3,000 MPH.
In 1974, 21-year old Mary Connors tried to break a record in England by firing herself out of a cannon over the River Avon. She landed in the water, failing in her attempt, but things got worse when the boat sent to rescue her capsized. She was eventually pulled to safety by a diver.
If a human being had the same mass as the Sun, the person’s temperature would be greater than that star.
A humongous enchilada, sometimes as big as 10 feet across, is made every October at the Whole Enchilada Fest in Las Cruces, NM.
Four times as many men as women are struck by lightning.