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* A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
* Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
* There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
*The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
* There are more chickens than people in the world.
* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
* "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
* Almonds are a member of the peach family.
* An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
* Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
* In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
* A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
* A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
* It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
* In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
* The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
*Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honor of his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone.
*The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
*A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
*No president of the United States was an only child.
*The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
*A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
*Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
*More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
*Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
*Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
*"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
*Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot.
*If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
*Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
*Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
*The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
*The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
*TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
*The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
*A snail can sleep for 3 years.
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