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**A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.**
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**A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. **
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**A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.**
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+ G0 T8 K6 n3 g- r**A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.** 2 d0 I& u" }0 Q8 u! s; J
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**A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.** # z# I, W( z) B* ^- D

- u$ d5 E# |3 Z# h**A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.** : B1 d' |! g5 l

0 |: y; O- w$ R, q% w* A) t5 t**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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**Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.** : r1 b8 Z* G9 K! b; v
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**Almonds are a member of the peach family.** 0 ]5 @5 R8 I$ t
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**Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child
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! g2 t: f  h9 }( t5 _4 [**Butterflies taste with their feet.**
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: \4 y8 x: D+ i**Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.**
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5 F* {3 S4 i& h4 @7 \* x8 ~**"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".** : d! Z7 h9 Z2 [* P( S( H& V

4 `- u" V5 N3 ]# f**February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
1 S% N8 _9 w0 b2 Xmoon. **
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**In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.**
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**If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would , ?( B) K- i- m# e6 I! R
never end because of the rate of reproduction. ** , J2 ~& M  [  O8 T
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**If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an - L  q5 p/ X! u1 }, |3 t5 M
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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**Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.**
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**Maine** is the only U.S.** **state whose name is just one syllable.**
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1 B( s" \$ s( k; z1 x+ m& q0 v**No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or - d. ]2 u. _3 \. w, a9 G
purple. **
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**On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament 4 Z! O7 c+ K; b" `' ^+ R1 Y
building is an American flag.** ; A& Y" X# {' |' p

" X8 ?% R7 q& i**Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never . M* p; ~3 {8 R* x' _# l
stop growing. ** ' g1 M5 M- ?. j1 V! k2 h

2 c$ l  d) |* l**Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite**. **
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5 s5 @% k. c; [% @**"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and
+ K: V/ D  z. R/ o! Z( a"lollipop" with your right.**
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**The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. **
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**The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel
( e! G. b' H% v! D' m5 X. t% Wthat it burns.**
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6 c6 t, r: a: f" n**The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. **
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9 f0 F! j, ~. J* B- J**The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every + \: H" x' }& w! n' v. G8 o$ C
letter of the alphabet.** 1 r# A: e& v/ S/ E; W0 @7 r5 o8 {) g
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**The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. 5 `+ Z% s. ?" |0 p6 I' ]4 I: ^
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read left to right or right to left (palindromes).** * L+ }6 R  I9 _) R, V" K
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**There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. ** 1 Y" _& L% _# a' p/ V/ Q
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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":
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**There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in ) \* O* M* p5 f5 ]% q
order: "abstemious" and "facetious."**
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5 T1 T/ L; \$ ^0 S& i**Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. ****
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**TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. **
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**Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.** $ G; s4 F9 J2 A2 [/ j

8 r8 D  `: ?7 a& s( z2 c8 I**Women blink nearly twice as much as men.**
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+ w+ e6 n1 k+ Q1 m* h" L**Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks;
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+ K" Z2 h4 n7 s**...............Now you know everything*
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