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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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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.
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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 Capo ne’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
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Almonds are a member of the peach family.
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An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
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Babies are born without kneecaps; they don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
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Dogs only have about 10."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 moon.
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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 never end because of the rate of reproduction.
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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an 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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Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "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 die! sel 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.
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The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
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The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
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The words ’racecar,’ ’kayak’ and ’level’ are the same whether they are 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": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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There’s no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
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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.
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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; otherwise it will digest itself.
Excellent information about animals, birds and insects.