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1. The mechanical shark in ‘Jaws’ was nicknamed Bruce.
2. Fish can get seasick.
3. Rats can swim for a kilometre without resting. They can also tread water for three days straight.
4. Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
5. Mosquitoes have teeth.
6. A ballet enthusiast is called a ‘balletomane’.
7. The tulip actually originated in Turkey, not Holland.
8. The 50-metre long wall that gave New York’s Wall Street it’s name was only 3.5 metres tall.
9. The highest temperature on record was 57.78 degrees on 13 September 1992, in Azizia, Libya.
10. On average a cow produces 40 glasses of milk daily.

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1. Due to its eye placement a donkey can see all of it’s hooves at the same time.
2. When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as ‘the tragic lampost’.
3. Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
4. If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to function.
5. There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
6. A skink can be detected by a human over one kilometre away.
7. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
8. A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
9. The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
10. All hurricanes form over water and last about 10 days.

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1. The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male and becomes female. It may go back and forth many times.
2. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh 15-100 times a day.
3. One thousand tonnes of meteor dust falls to Earth each day.
4. A single 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
5. Impurities in gemstones give them their colour.
6. If you remove the pip, the flavour of the olive will be diminished.
7. Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongue.
8. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
9. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920’s was called ‘criphead’.
10. About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.

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1. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
2. The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drown the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
3. It takes on average 90 squirts from a cow’s udder to make a litre of milk.
4. Horseracing regulations require no racehorse’s name to contain more than 18 letters.
5. Sheep will not drink from running water.
6. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
7. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, egg whites were a popular form of laundry detergent.
8. The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.
9. In Elizabethan times, carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
10. Up until the age of six or seven months, children can breathe and swallow simultaneously.

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1. The kernel of the tree ‘Myristica Fragans’ is called nutmeg.
2. Scarlet O’Hara’s real first name was Katie.
3. A person who is scoptophobic has an intense fear of being seen.
4. If laid out in a straight line, the average adult’s circulatory system would be long enough to circle the Earth two and a half times.
5. Scientists have found chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression.
6. Children born in May are, on average, 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month.
7. Plain vanilla is the favourite flavour of ice cream, making up 29% of all sales.
8. A camel can shut it’s nostrils during a desert sandstorm.
9. Facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body.
10. The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other’s shoulders.

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1. In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways.


2. A person uses approximately 57 sheets of toilet paper each day.


3. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.


4. The blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth, and as much as 150 tonnes fully grown.


5. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.


6. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred & Wilma Flintstone.


7. Men can read smaller print than women. Women can hear better.


8. Graffiti is the Italian word for ‘scratched drawings’.


9. Daily, the human race grown by about 214,000 people.


10. A firefly is a type of beetle.

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1. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people around the world.
2. Longest recorded female legs are 126cm – as tall as an average 10-year-old.
3. Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
4. Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
5. A horse can sleep standing up.
6. The hyoid bone in the throat is the only bone in the human body not joined to another.
7. The number 4 is the only number in the English language that has the same number of letters in it’s name as it’s meaning.
8. The only lizard that has a voice is a gecko.
9. In one day, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than all the telephones in the world put together.
10. Rats can go without water longer than camels.

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1. Argentineans eat more meat than any other nation in the world.
2. Americans consume about 100 acres of pizza per day.
3. It is estimated that a plastic container will not decompose for as long as 50,000 years.
4. The only part of the human anatomy that has no blood supply is the cornea.
5. Penguins have an organ above their eyes that changes seawater to freshwater.
6. A body temperature of over 42 degrees is fatal.
7. The skin of baby mice is so transparent that you can see the milk flowing into them as they suckle.
8. Tequila is made from the juice of the agave.
9. On average women say 7000 words per day. Men manage just over 2000.
10. On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime

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1. The initials M.G. on the famous cars stand for Morris Garage.
2. The top cork-producing countries in the world are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.
3. A ‘vamp’ is the upper front top of a shoe.
4. A group of foxes is called a skulk.
5. Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can’t repair themselves.
6. Only 1 in 1000 animals born in the sea grow to maturity.
7. If all the gold suspended in the world’s seawater were mined. Each person on Earth would received about 4kg.
8. When born, the white whale is black.
9. The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the kiwi.
10. When first born a shrimp is male. Over time it gradually evolves to a female

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1. People living at high altitudes have more red blood cells than people living at sea level.
2. The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a ‘keeper’.
3. Experts say the common cold will delay a child’s grown for the cold’s duration.
4. A ‘buccula’ is the name given to a person’s double chin.
5. Male monkeys go bald in the same way men do.
6. The pelican breathes through it’s mouth. It has no nostrils.
7. A lobster’s kidney’s are in its forehead and it’s teeth are in its stomach.
8. The highest rating that can be given to a top quality diamond is D-flawless.
9. Buckingham Palace has 600 rooms.
10. Elephants and short-tailed shrews get only two hours of sleep each day.

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1. The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia.
2. Between the ages of 30 and 70 your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5m.
3. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6months to grow from base to tip.
4. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 muscles to frown.
5. Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
6. Over 1500 new species have been found in Australian waters in the past 10 years.
7. Humans produce about 40,000 litres of saliva in a lifetime.
8. When a woman is pregnant, her uterus expands to 500 times it’s normal size.
9. The average person will consume 50 tonnes of food and 45,000 litres of water in a lifetime.
10. Chickens can travel up to 15km per hour.

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1. A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
2. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
3. The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that telephone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
4. Starfish don’t have brains.
5. The average human will drink about 72,737 litres of water in a lifetime.
6. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 0.1 of a calorie
7. One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all of the world’s telephones put together
8. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court
9. If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
10. The catfish has more than 2700 taste buds

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1. About 10% of the world’s population are left-handed.
2. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the length of a football field.
3. The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed of India, who measured 1 foot, 10 inches.
4. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
5. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old.
6. Studies show that the principal reason people lie is to avoid punishment.
7. The average human body contains enough iron to make a 7.62cm nail.
8. A typical bed is usually home to over six billion dust mites.
9. A zebra is white with black stripes not black with white stripes.
10. 1.5 billion kilograms of chocolate are consumed worldwide each year.

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1. If the world was tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.
2. Mozart wrote “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” when he was 5 years old.
3. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.
4. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a spider.
5. A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue.
6. Sound at the right vibration frequency cane bole holes through a solid object.
7. The Neanderthal Man’s brain was bigger than modern man’s.
8. 40 people are sent to hospital for dog bites every minute.
9. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2200 people.
10. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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1. The total length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over thirty metres.
2. No words in the English language rhyme with Month, Orange, silver or purple.
3. An elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human.
4. In medieval England, beer was often served with breakfast.
5. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
6. Clouds fly higher during the day than at night.
7. The youngest pope was eleven years old.
8. Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
9. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
10. On average, 13 people die every year from vending machines falling on them.

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1. The names of all the continents end with the same letter they start with
2. Cats have better memories than dogs
3. Apples, not caffeine are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
4. Of all the senses, smell is the most closely linked to memory
5. From the age of 30, humans gradually begin to shrink
6. 35% of people who use personal ads for dating are already married
7. You can hear the tick of a watch from 6 metres in very quiet conditions
8. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
9. Turtles and honeybees are both deaf
10. The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache

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1. If you stand at the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime.
2. The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
3. You can stop a sneeze by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth.
4. The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
5. An iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes.
6. The first man-made item to exceed the speed of sound is the bull’s hip or leather whip.
7. The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5000 to 6000 words.
8. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
9. Most people fear public speaking more than death.
10. If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and then sinking to the bottom.

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1. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
2. The average human body contains enough sulphur to kill all the fleas on an average dog.
3. The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
4. You’re more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume banana’s.
5. The most common non-contagious disease in the world is tooth decay.
6. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
7. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
8. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
9. A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.
10. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

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I'm going to make this a regular thing.

1. Did you know that you share your birthday with at least 9million other people in the world?
2. 0.3% of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
3. The average person laughs about fifteen times a day.
4. 50,000 cells in your body will have died and been replaced by new cells while you have been reading this sentence.
5. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.
6. More people are killed by donkeys than die in air crashes.
7. By law, every child in Belgium must take a harmonica lesson at primary school.
8. While performing her duties as Queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
9. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
10. Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, laser printers and windshield wipers were all invented by women.

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I found some more that I wanted to share:

1. Boanthropy is a disease in which a person thinks they are an ox.
2. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
3. Mosquito repellants don't repel. The spray blocks the mosquitoes sensors so they don't know you're there.
4. In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.
5. Butterflies taste with their feet.
6. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
7. The largest cell in the human body is the female reproductive cell, the ovum. The smallest is the male sperm.
8. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
9. The pupil of an eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.
10. An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.