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The Bee Hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
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The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber of the same size.
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Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
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The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
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Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
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Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
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Cats can hear ultrasound.
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The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.
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Pigs can get sunburn.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month.
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A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
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Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
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When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
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Frogs never drink.
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Only male turkeys gobble.
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At birth a Dalmatian is always pure white.
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Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
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The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
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The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
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A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
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Beavers were once the size of bears.
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A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.
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Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
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Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.
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Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
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Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.
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Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
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The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
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In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
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A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
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A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.
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If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
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The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
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A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
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An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
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The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
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Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
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The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
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A compass needle does not point directly north.
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Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.
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Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
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In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
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No two lip impressions are the same.
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The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
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Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.
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The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.
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Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.
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Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
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Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
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The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
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Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.
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Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.
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A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
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U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.
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The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.
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Snails can sleep for up to three years.
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The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.
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Human eyes have over two million working parts.
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Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.
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Astronauts actually get taller when in space.
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Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.
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It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.
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Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.
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A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.
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The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.
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Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.
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Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
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A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
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There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.
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Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
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A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.
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Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.
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The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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All scorpions glow.
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A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
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The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
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Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
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Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.
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The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.
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A group of goats is called a trip.
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There are more chickens than people in the world.
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A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.
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A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
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The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.
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The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
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It is not possible to tickle yourself.
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Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
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Children grow faster during springtime.
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Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.
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Children have more taste buds than adults.
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A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.
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The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.
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Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
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Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
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Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.
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A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
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Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
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Forty percent of twins invent their own language.
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The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.
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A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.
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Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
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Dolphins are unable to smell.
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When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
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Cows do not have upper front teeth.
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In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.
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Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
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To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.
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Baby bunnies are called kittens.
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Sea otters hold each other’s paws while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.
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Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.
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A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
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OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but it’s first known use was in 1917.
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Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.
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Norway once knighted a penguin.
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The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
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Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
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One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.
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DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.
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Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
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Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.
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Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
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Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
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Mint comes in over 30 varieties.
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Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
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Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
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Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.
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You can’t hum while plugging your nose.
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Elephants are afraid of bees.
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Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
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It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.
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The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
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Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
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There are more fake than real flamingos.
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Jellyfish can clone themselves.
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Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.
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Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
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Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
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The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.
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In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
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There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
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Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.
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In Venus, it snows metal.
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The average dog can understand over 150 words.
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Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
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Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
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75% of the U.S.’s tart cherries come from Michigan.
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Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
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Antarctica is home to the largest desert in the world.
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Elephants can smell water from miles away.
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You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
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An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T-Rexes.
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The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.
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The ostrich produces a booming noise, often confused with a lion roar.
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You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
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Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.
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A housefly hums in the key of F.
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Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
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The sun is actually white, but the earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.
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Snakes can see even with their eyes closed
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A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
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Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
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Mountain lions can whistle.
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When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.
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Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.
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A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
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Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
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Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.
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Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.
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An avocado is actually a large berry.
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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
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Scotland has 421 words for snow.
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Octopuses think with their tentacles.
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The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.
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Some cats are allergic to humans.
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The tiny pocket in jeans was made for pocket watches.
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Two of Snapple’s founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
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One of Snapple’s original founders ran a sardine and pickle store in Queens with his family.
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The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
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Ants won’t cross a chalk line.
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Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios.
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Banana trees are actually herbs.
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"Donut Towns" are towns that are completely surrounded by other towns.
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Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
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Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.