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A bee sting is acidic and a wasp sting is alkali. To treat a sting by one of these you should use the opposite type of chemical. |
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Giraffes have no vocal chords. |
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The life span of a taste bud is ten days. |
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. |
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It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. |
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Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. |
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One year on Mars is equivalent to 2 years on Earth. |
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The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F. |
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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. |
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Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards. |
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If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long. |
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Eighty-nine per cent of the weight of water is made up of oxygen. |
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No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. |
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A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance. |
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There is enough fuel in a full tank of a jumbo jet to drive an average car around the world four times. |
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There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth. |
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From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. |
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Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight. |
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The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court. |
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The human body contains about six-thousand miles of blood vessels. |
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Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty. |
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The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9,000 'lead' pencils. |
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One square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands. |
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When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens. |
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The human body has fewer muscles in it than a caterpillar. |
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The typical housefly cruises at 8 km/hr. |
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93% of a water melon is water. |
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The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum. |
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At the ocean's deepest point, an iron ball would take more than an hour to sink to the ocean floor. ( 11.034 km ) |
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If you could save all the times your eyes blink in one life time and use them all at once you would see blackness for 1.2 years! |
