Horses are gorgeous creatures that thousands of girls (and boys) beg their parents for everyday. But those kids do not know a lot of fascinating facts about horses as they are quite interesting animals:

• An average horse's head weighs 11.84 pounds. (Dang that is a big head!)
• A horse is able to drink about 10 gallons of water per day. (And you thought you needed a camel if you wanted a mammal to drink a lot of water!)
• Horses use their facial expressions to communicate... just like we do!
• Horses spend more energy lying down. (And that is one reason why many horses sleep standing up.)
• An Akhal-Teke from Russia can go for days without water or food. (This sounds like a useful horse to take in the desert.)
• "Old Billy" was one of the oldest recorded living horses. He lived to be 62-years-old!
• Falebella from Argentina is the smallest breed of horse.
• Camargue horses are horses that are completely white as adults. Their babies are pure black when they are born. (COOL!)
• A horse's upper jaw is wider than its lower jaw.
• The horse's small intestine is 70 ft long!
• The tallest horse on record was called Samson. He was 21.2 hh (hands high). (7'2") I can't even imagine riding a horse this tall!
• Horses can't breathe through their mouths. 
• Horses sleep longer in the summer than in the winter... this seems backwards, no?
• A zedonk is the cross between a zebra and a donkey.