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Animals

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Slugs have four noses.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.

Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism such as chipmunks and squirrels see in slow motion.

Snakes can’t blink.

Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump.

Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.

A housefly hums in the key of F.

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

A snail can sleep for three years at a time.

A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

Octopuses have three hearts.

Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times per second.

Turtles can breathe through their bottoms.

Whales swallow half a million calories in a single mouthful.

The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

A group of frogs is a called an army.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

Lobsters have urine-release nozzles right under their eyes. They urinate in each other's faces as a way of communicating.

Alligators can live up to 100 years.

Reindeer eyeballs turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels.

Sea otters hold each other’s paws when they sleep so they don’t drift apart.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Elephants are pregnant for 22 months.

The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.

Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.

A giraffe’s tongue is about two feet long and they can even lick the inside of their ears.

Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk.

Giraffes only have bottom teeth.

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Food & Fruit

The strawberry is the only fruit that bears seeds on the outside.

Broccoli contains more protein than steak.

Tomatoes and avocados are fruits, not vegetables.

Rubbing the inside of a banana peel on a mosquito bite can help keep it from itching.

Raspberries are a member of the rose family.

Ice cream was once called “cream ice.”

Ripe cranberries will bounce like a ball. (Go on, try it!). They also float.

Apples float because they are one quarter air!

Pineapples take 2 years to grow

Bananas can help improve your mood and lower blood pressure.

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Everything Else

It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (Give it a go!)

There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on a beach.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.

When you grow up you’ll have 32 teeth.

11% of people are left-handed.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

The Hawaiian alphabet only has 13 letters.

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.

Sound does not carry in space.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it.

Number four is the only number with the same amount of letters.

Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.

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