Pal really was Lassie?

• Korea's poshintang - dog meat soup - is a popular item on summertime menus, despite outcry from other nations. The soup is believed to cure summer heat ailments, improve male virility, and improve women's complexions.
  
• It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
  
• Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
  
• Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.