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**A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.** 4 |# t# y' ^; u+ I* f( {& m
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**A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ** ) D! ?- y; g) W9 y  I& _

4 E3 Y$ J1 V6 j$ ?8 O/ F' O+ J**A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.** , G" j+ q# `8 N5 t" v. S
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**A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.**
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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.** 4 g$ l' P8 ^) l: V; g

1 Y. v/ M+ ^0 U2 S( T% i5 W9 e2 W  A**A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. **
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**A snail can sleep for three years.**
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* W4 B" N, m, m5 G! F**Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.** ; O! P* t8 I- z5 U" a6 f: C
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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 / Q. _3 T8 W# q8 r  O. Y& v2 r
reaches 2 to 6 years of age.**
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**Butterflies taste with their feet.** 6 I! r2 m( T: i
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**Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.** 8 P! r* k) d5 R, \! F$ E, w

2 M% i6 Y9 r+ b; v* Z" s; [6 y**"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".**
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**February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full * o, b: K  V0 k2 h. A
moon. ** * H: w: W+ u/ z& w, ?
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**In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.** 4 R" J& T' N# z8 n+ Z7 ~
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**If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would
+ D; m% q* e- J+ w& W( f" ?! y* J# dnever end because of the rate of reproduction. ** , }) ]* ^0 `, E% a5 J  ~

6 ~+ ~/ [% I( o# h3 M! n" P**If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an * U4 C% _, m6 F7 f  O' t1 B" H1 R
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.**   R3 Q& |6 V4 H
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**It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. **
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**Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.** - m4 i2 A1 Q/ o0 i, m0 P# B4 N3 |

8 S- J( _3 s, r2 D**Maine** is the only U.S.** **state whose name is just one syllable.** * a$ e0 o* o4 P3 A( q/ t1 D1 U

, W! ~5 K0 q6 F3 Y" i6 n**No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or   u8 H: g* a' O; X0 L; l
purple. **
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  y* E% G% a7 g" [: a( B**On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
9 P# U  D" m4 q# {/ H, R6 zbuilding is an American flag.**
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- p# j$ _$ N, M5 X! z**Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never 6 x3 z& {. Q6 Q. F. B  {9 h+ @
stop growing. ** - d- k( j5 C8 u8 L

# k: S, T: r) A$ @& T**Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite**. ** 6 F3 t7 B% S1 ?4 B$ j

! s2 O# Q4 W! K: N**"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
0 F8 o$ w) U6 Y/ j4 j"lollipop" with your right.**
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**The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. ** 7 l; z4 m: L6 I1 H/ k6 f5 |0 j

- D, n. g2 J% y9 `7 k* ], O**The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel / m% w, b8 E# z4 n& J
that it burns.**
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**The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. ** : {# \% f) L  _* y0 O8 R: q/ q

5 n' w; M- ~! A* L**The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every ; O: ^3 L9 S9 a8 F& g1 _
letter of the alphabet.**
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3 b- ?" Z; a9 F; @' u% Z) t**The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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4 }/ O/ X: y% ?, E7 I/ {+ t& W4 Y**The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are : f1 b  j' t; s
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).**
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**There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. **
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**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":
% u8 O  [8 f( w" gtremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. **
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( H; o" |9 D3 S9 Y+ J**There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in
) {/ K! i* `# b7 aorder: "abstemious" and "facetious."**
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, L2 p* z: L2 N" N9 R! ]  M**Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. ****
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! j/ _) y  S6 `) N. x4 M$ {**TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. **
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. u+ p1 C/ P7 ^8 m**Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.** 9 C1 ]/ }& ]+ ?8 m
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**Women blink nearly twice as much as men.**
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**Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
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; `! @) K9 j: a/ R5 v" w/ _0 |**...............Now you know everything*
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