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An ''aglet'' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.
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An adult
giraffe's tongue is 17 inches long.
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An albatross can sleep while it flies
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An American urologist once bought
Napoleon's penis for $40,000
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An average adult produces about half a liter of flatulent gas per day,
resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a
day.
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An
eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small
deer
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An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to
flow backwards
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An egg will float if placed in water in which sugar has been added.
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An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.
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An
elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
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An iceberg contains more heat than a lit match.
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An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years!
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An
ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
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Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their
toothpaste. and the viewers were never told!
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Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning
strike!
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Annually, the amount of garbage that is dumped in the
world's oceans
is three times the weight of fish that is caught from the oceans.
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Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
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Ants
don't sleep
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Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to
escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt
mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is
taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter
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Apple seeds are poisonous!
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Apples are 25% air.
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Apples are actually part of the rose family.
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Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the
morning.
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Approximately $25 million is spent each year on lap dances in Las
Vegas.
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the
earth's
atmosphere each second.
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Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was
counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1
percent of this water is drinkable.
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Approximately 70,000 people in the U.S. are both blind and deaf
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Approximately one-third of the population
can't snap their fingers!
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Armadillos can get leprosy.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, in the movie ''Hercules'', was dubbed.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an
ophthalmologist by profession!
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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At one ''feeding'', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own
weight in blood.
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At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much
down force
that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
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At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound
produced by any animal
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At age 18, the Queen of England was a mechanic for the British
Military.
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At age 70, more than 70 percent of men are still potent!
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'At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
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At
horse race tracks, the favorite wins fewer than 30% of the time
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a
rifle bullet.
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At their closest point, the Russian and U.S. borders are less than two
miles apart.
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Atilla the
Hun was a dwarf
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Attics were invented in Attica
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long
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Austria
was the first country to use postcards
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Avocados are poisonous to birds
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Avocados have more protein than any other fruit
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Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He
changed it every 2 innings!
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Babe
Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third
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Babies
are born without knee caps
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Babies start dreaming even before
they're born
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Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than
those that are not breastfed
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Baby
beavers are called kittens
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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day
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Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour
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Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be
cured with cashews
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood
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Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day
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'Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.
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Bananas contain a natural chemical which can make a person happy. This
same chemical is also found in Prozac
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Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
