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Armadillos are the
only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
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Your stomach has to
produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest
itself.
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The proper name for a
pubic wig is a 'merkin'
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Only one person in
two billion will live to be 116 or older.
(Although this figure is on the
increase)
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A duck's quack
doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
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The only 15 letter
word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrightable’.
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It was discovered on
a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach
first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its
forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the
stomach back down again.
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If NASA sent birds
into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.
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A pig's orgasm lasts
for 30 minutes.
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Studies show that if
a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty per
cent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor.
It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is
occurring, relax and correct itself.
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Emu’s and kangaroos
cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that
reason.
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The very first bomb
dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant
in the Berlin Zoo.
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More people are
killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
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Certain frogs can be
frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
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Cat's urine glows
under a ultra violet light.
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An ostrich's eye is
bigger that its brain.
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To escape the grip of
a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go
instantly.
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If you toss a penny
10000 times, it will not be heads 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads
picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
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Babies are born
without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years
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Many hamsters only
blink one eye at a time.
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The longest recorded
flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
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A whale's penis is
called a dork.
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If a statue in the
park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air (the horse, that
is), the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air,
the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has
all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
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No word in the
English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
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The most common name
in the world is Mohammed.
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Sherlock Holmes never
said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
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In "Casablanca",
Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam".
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The average person
falls asleep in seven minutes.
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A 'jiffy' is an
actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
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The ant can lift 50
times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over
on its right side when intoxicated.
(I worry about people who do
this sort of research?)
