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-female lions do 90% of the hunting

-you speak about 4800 words per day

-the underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog

-we spend about 6 months of our lives waiting at red lights

-48% of astronauts experience motion sickness

-90% of your body is hydrogen, ocygen, carbon, and nitroge,

-smokey the bear's zip code is 20252

-90% of bird species are monogamous, only 3% of mammal species are

-camels have 3 eyelids

-the red sea is not red

-the second full moom in one months is called a blue moon

-we have about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left

-you breathe 13 pints of air per minute

-the hawiian alphebet has only 12 letters

-beavers can hold their breath of 45 minutes

-more people are killed by donkeys than by plane crashes

-oysters can change from male to female and back again

-you blink about 25000 times a day, or 50,000 if you count each eye seperately

-there are 238,500 smiths in the U.S.

-in the 1800's the united states had 1,2,3 and 20 cent coins

-the shortest war lasted 38 minutes

-nyc's central park is almost twice as large as monaco

-you have enough red blood cells to circle the planet

-the oldest goldfish lived 14,975 days

-shirly temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday

-slugs have 4 noses

-the smalles number spelled with the letter 'a' is one thousand

-the english language makes over 600,000 words out of 26 letters

-the only 15 letter word that you can write without repeating any letters is uncopyrightable

-the average human eats at least one spider each night while sleeping

-the longest word you can type on a keyboard on the top row is 'typewriter'

-if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

-if you produce flatulence consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

-the human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

-a pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes

-banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

-humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

-on average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

-the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

-you can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

-every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

-you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

-right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

-in ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

-a crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

-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.

-polar bears are left handed

-the catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

-the flea can jump 350 times its body length

-a cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

-the male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. the female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

-male lions mate over 50 times a day.

-butterflies taste with their feet.

-elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

-a cat's urine glows under a black light.

-an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

-starfishes haven't got brains.

-in the U.S., one company markets red contact lenses at 20 cents a pair to be used by chickens. supposedly, the red tint makes the chickens feel happier so they lay more eggs

-green is the horny color.

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