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• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
• In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
• Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
• Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
• Slugs have 4 noses.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
• Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
• Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
• When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
• The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
• Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
• If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, 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.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
• Mosquitoes have teeth.
• Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
• February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
• The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
• Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
• The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
• Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
• A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
• You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206.
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