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1. The hair of an adult can stretch 25% of it's length without breaking.
2. The starfish has five limbs and can re-grow four of them, as long as it's central body is not harmed.
3. Xerophargy refers to a diet of bread and water.
4. To simply walk you use 200 muscles.
5. A cheetah's stride is seven to eight metres in length. It completes four strides per second.
6. Artichokes are flower buds.
7. 24 frames per second are projected in most animated films.
8. All porcupines float in water.
9. In ancient times, vinegar was the strongest acid known.
10. The indentation at the bottom of a wine bottle is to strengthen the structure of the bottle and to trap the sediments in the wine.

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1. There are more people in the world who eat alligators than there are alligators that eat people.
2. When viewed from above, rainbows appear dough-nut shaped.
3. The Statue of Liberty's index finger is about 2.5 metres in length.
4. A cat keeps purring when inhaling and exhaling.
5. An ostrich egg can make 11.5 omelettes.
6. Someone who has an irrational fear of meat is carnophobic.
7. A snail can sleep for three years.
8. The valves of the human heart are as thick as a single piece of tissue paper.
9. A claque refers to a group of people hired to applaud and act or performer.
10. Prior to launching his movie career, Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto, Canada.

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1. Prior to being introduced, Australia did not have any members of the cat family, hoofed animals, apes or monkeys.
2. It takes approximately seven years for a lobster to grow to be about half a kilogram.
3. The strength of all the hairs on one human head can support the weight of approximately 100 people.
4. The palms of the hands and soles of the feet contain the most amount of sweat glands in the body.
5. The average speed of an avelanche is 35km an hour.
6. One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.
7. Chocolate contains the same chemical that your brain produces when you fall in love - phenylethylamine.
8. A blue whale's heart beats nine times per minute.
9. Pandas spend approximately 12 hours per day eating bamboo.
10. Animals that lack defensive structures, such as teeth or claws, are said to be muticous.

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1. Owls are reportedly the only birds that can see the colour blue.
2. Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea.
3. 80% of all rose species in the world come from Asia.
4. A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500,000 baths.
5. A mysophobic person as an intense fear of infection.
6. A building in which silence is enforced, like a library, is referred to as a silentium.
7. Botanically, true berries include the grape, tomato and eggplant, but not rasperries and blackberries.
8. During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.
9. Seals sleep underwater and surface for air without waking.
10. Podiatrists state that the average pair of feet travel about 190,000km in a lifetime

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1. An igloo is so well insulated that you can sit inside without a coat when the outside temperature is as low as -30degrees.


2. The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.


3. 90% of all living things in the sea are made up of plankton.


4. In Pacific Grove, California, it is a misdemeanour to kill a butterfly.


5. The literal translation of the word wonton is "swallowing a cloud".


6. 90-95% of all sensory perceptions are accounted for by sight.


7. Lungs are 100 times easier to blow up than a child's balloon.


8. Fingernails grow faster on your favoured hand.


9. The average adult eyeball weighs under 30 grams.


10. Clams have a row of eyes around their shells.

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1. Human thighbones are as strong as concrete.
2. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung used by the Egyptians in 2000 BC.
3. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue prints are different.
4. The average human body contains enough potassium to fire a toy cannon.
5. One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.
6. 23% of all photocopier faults are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.
7. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
8. The honeybee kills more people worldwide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
9. The average human body makes enough carbon for 900 pencils.
10. Tuna suffocate if they stop swimming.

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1. The average lifespan of a taste bud is 7 to 10 days.
2. It takes about 150,000 litres of water to grow and prepare a typical dinner for eight people.
3. The average loaf of bread is more than a third water.
4. The largest eggs in the world are laid by sharks.
5. Spider silk is a very strong material and its on-weight basis has proven to be stronger than steel.
6. Every living thing on Earth contains carbon.
7. It takes over 20,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef.
8. On an average day, an adult spends 77 minutes eating.
9. A person living to 75 years of age will have slept almost 23 years of their life – or about 220,000 hours.
10. The statuette on Rolls Royces is called The Spirit Of Ecstacy

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1. Babies have the strongest sense of smell. They can recognise their mothers by scent.
2. Orchids release a chemical that intoxicates bees.
3. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than at any other time of the day.
4. Chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac in the Middle Ages.
5. Kilogram for kilogram, humans produce more heat than the sun.
6. The Peanuts comic strip was first called Li’l Folks.
7. Four Weddings and a Funeral was the first British film to break 20million pounds at the box office.
8. The sound a camel makes is called nuzzling.
9. Hard-boiled eggs will spin. Uncooked or soft boiled eggs will not.
10. 24 carat gold is not pure gold. Pure gold is so soft that in can be moulded by hand.

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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. 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.