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**A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.**
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**A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ** 1 \( d" h6 Q  Y, |; o
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**A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.** ; X5 C  A5 O8 e8 c7 {
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**A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.** , G8 P/ @9 w7 }) B) F# Z' \
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**A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.**
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% R3 r: W2 V+ R! r**A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.** , L# h! @( y5 _" I  O  l
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**A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. **
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  Z' S! k- X% D3 D0 `; @**A snail can sleep for three years.**
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**Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.**
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5 w/ P( J! |3 s$ B**Almonds are a member of the peach family.**
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' I. ?! r* j) T**Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
& E4 A: E" G) W; c6 Q9 Creaches 2 to 6 years of age.**
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**Butterflies taste with their feet.** ' ~" v. p7 b* C& [
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**Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.** - q- Z# b/ H) E  R) o" r
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**"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
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**In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.** 7 L' P1 b' H2 i& l7 c! P  P( D+ M  v# x( E

, O6 V9 \# N- w$ U* ]**If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would 1 R$ b" Q8 T5 F, o( h& E  ]
never end because of the rate of reproduction. ** + @; c: _. g0 t# c& G4 E

: R/ ~6 |+ Z$ m1 F**If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
& H- [* g3 V/ `average of 6 months waiting at red lights.**
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**It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. **
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3 }+ `$ ]. q) U4 V1 i2 o9 \3 o**Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.** + k4 C$ z: S9 n9 L8 g. x/ e

7 Z2 q6 M/ j+ }$ k+ L; u! X9 h**Maine** is the only U.S.** **state whose name is just one syllable.** 8 j$ a" p2 S3 V' i: I
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**No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or : N! C* m5 g6 |1 S/ [
purple. **
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' v6 M: Q9 `+ ?**On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament
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4 h. ?' h! z( ~5 q* X# I/ U3 F**Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never & W& D2 ]# y+ ?
stop growing. ** / I6 u5 J* [4 ]9 ~( X4 ^
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**Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite**. **
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- O8 N6 x! i* G' g**"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
$ k, z. |: D: @* r7 Y" x* w"lollipop" with your right.** 2 V* J+ n, f. I  F7 B/ O8 u

3 L+ D/ V4 ~0 N- N' K**The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. ** , V  Q$ Q4 ~4 p1 i! P" S+ w
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**The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel % x9 q! O* \. b% n
that it burns.** " a: \) A: P3 _7 G4 [3 v
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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
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**The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. % j# O4 P" R" H% ~6 n* @
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**The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are % Y6 `$ C( w9 p: ?9 S6 b+ M
read left to right or right to left (palindromes).**
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% ]% J5 F5 d+ R$ T! R. Z* |**There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. **
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; X; ^  O5 r4 k5 {& q* X: S3 k( q. ^**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":   {& p, I+ K" J9 _2 z& d+ u
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. ** 9 i3 m- [) V3 d6 j/ i# ^! |3 q

& j- @) s" S1 c7 ]9 f' x! t**There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in * J! a% p! ]5 R5 I
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."**
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% e$ {+ Y2 R4 I! N# f**Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. ****
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, E5 `- ^9 h& N/ `/ t6 Y9 T0 w**TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. **
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3 u2 `- X2 b: T  H* E3 N2 e4 ?2 v**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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**Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
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**...............Now you know everything*
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