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A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat
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A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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A bird ''chews'' with its stomach
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A blue
whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a
human to crawl through.
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A blue
whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
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A
Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
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A broken clock is always right twice a day.
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A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and
35 miles per hour.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach
the nearest star.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a
second.
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A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
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A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35.
About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50
the chances of having twins is 1 in 9.
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A
chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting
in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once
traveled 500 miles through Italy
after its gearbox was filled with bananas
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A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from
starvation!
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A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.
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A
comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your
plate
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A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its
environment.
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A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth
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A cubic
yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level
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A
dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
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A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks
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A fire
in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years
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A
full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse
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A fully
loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty
minutes to stop
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A
giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
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A
Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man
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A group
of frogs is called an army
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A group
of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a
skein
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A group
of kangaroos is called a mob
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A group
of officers is called a mess
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A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat
evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though
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A hardboiled egg will spin. An uncooked or
soft-boiled
egg will not
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A
hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child
inside!
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water
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A jiffy
is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying,
I will be there in a jiffy
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A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.
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A killer whale’s heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a
minute on the surface.
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A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
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A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those
found at the sun's surface
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A
lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away.
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A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural
antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a
sheet the size of a tennis court
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a
sheet the size of a tennis court.
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A male baboon can kill a leopard.
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A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed
up of it)
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A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately
sixty-nine years.
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A man once sued his doctor because he survived his cancer longer than
the doctor predicted.
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A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
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A
million dollars'' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds
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A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
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A moth has no stomach.
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A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.
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A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.
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A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt
compared to pavement.
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A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
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A pipe 2 feet in diameter will allow four times more fluid to pass
through it than a pipe 1 foot in diameter.
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A polar
bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually
clear.
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A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
