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**A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.** / C J9 I( y: s- n3 |$ V4 A
) b* [9 S5 v# D1 u) I3 N**A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ** 6 W! V/ L3 r1 @! U
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**A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.**
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**A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.** " O+ {3 ?; K5 v+ a/ Q% G
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**A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.**
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**A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.**
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**A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. **
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. ^, m1 B0 G# [, D**A snail can sleep for three years.**
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# E6 X- ~4 i0 @/ z**Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.**
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**Almonds are a member of the peach family.**
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**Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child 1 D" U' | |5 g0 u9 `( t. K
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.**
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8 r* W+ j0 r% d# r**Butterflies taste with their feet.**
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**Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.** ) L+ R o2 Y! G' n6 K
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**"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".** 5 F! c8 Y9 s) r- z! Z9 I4 W
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**February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full # ` \4 r) {! ^$ v' V! O8 i# c2 Z
moon. ** , r% N1 h2 Q+ x: v; u8 ~
( J, s9 [# D" v" a% x V$ Y V**In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.** 4 {9 t e' Q: ?0 O3 t5 U
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**If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
6 I/ _6 S/ `. G) z: lnever end because of the rate of reproduction. ** ! q' g6 B, ?% X' q) `; V; ~: F- W3 u
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**If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
2 Z- ]% \ f. s0 w% ?average of 6 months waiting at red lights.**
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- S5 @3 h1 x7 r0 S* J**It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. ** * u$ X6 z+ I; m% g; i& o7 a
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**Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.** 5 Z" J& N! e% N; x
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**Maine** is the only U.S.** **state whose name is just one syllable.** - B1 o7 L: }9 k' ~/ g0 H) K
: N; u: T% l8 _# P**No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or 7 b3 r8 r* v0 I- f, @7 X0 G. ]# x
purple. ** 0 @& @% o, j7 B5 w8 x* u4 x' D+ F$ @
- j$ ]' w2 ?; l, k6 _( P" e**On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
( h9 E" I/ ]5 [, W/ i: X# Ibuilding is an American flag.**
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**Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never 5 M7 ?) h! s* w" ]# t
stop growing. **
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$ B5 m6 { N# D% o9 c**Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite**. ** 4 }* M, Y P" e# Y
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**"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and ( s! |( Q, u, B+ V l
"lollipop" with your right.**
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**The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. **
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5 v M4 s- ~ [**The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel * r h# B1 `- M$ e2 j# Z) S
that it burns.** $ h9 c+ f Y% }& T8 y2 d
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**The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. **
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**The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every # W# j. J# G1 c# c
letter of the alphabet.**
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# n" S9 z1 [/ q5 _9 U' f3 e**The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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**The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are
7 A& g$ f& M# |2 C! `0 \read left to right or right to left (palindromes).**
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**There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. ** 3 [3 c4 C* p4 U/ C" d) |
7 j+ x3 ~& x% `* o: E$ L**There are more chickens than people in the world.**
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**There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":
& z8 m) X3 o' M6 R( ltremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. **
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; f. f! x: K- T* ~) @9 q0 i8 P9 g n**There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in , c" s) Y! @$ V j( I+ t
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."**
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**Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. **** * v) ]6 h4 w' x' s" c
6 O0 [9 r3 h! B$ N& I8 c% X**TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. **
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5 F$ E8 E7 k5 M, @4 n7 W8 V2 z**Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.**
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**Women blink nearly twice as much as men.**
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9 d. g% C: i9 @/ k**Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
! o3 F" Y. D, c2 G+ O8 C( Yotherwise it will digest itself. ** 7 H F1 u1 M3 Z) t1 e" Z" A) {" C
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8 r) ~3 a) A6 X5 V7 X& z, n1 B**...............Now you know everything* |
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