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  • giraffes can't swim
  • a cat keeps purring when inhaling and exhaling
  • starfish do not have brains
  • the favourite horse wins fewer than 30% of all races
  • Dr Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was t-negative
  • a person living to 75 years of age will have slept almost 23 years of their life - or about 220,000 hours
  • a car travelling at 100mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star
  • androphobia is the fear of men
  • the hair of an adult can stretch 25% of its length without breaking
  • the largest pumpkin ever grown recorded a weight of 482kg
  • by raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink in quicksand
  • men can read smaller print better than women; women can hear better
  • Leonardi da Vinci could play tennis with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
  • when viewed from above, rainbows appear doughnut-shaped
  • the rush of air produced by a cough can approach 1000km an hour
  • the yo-yo originated in the Philippines, where it was used as weapon for hunting
  • the skin of baby mice is so transparent that you can see the milk flowing into them as they suckle
  • cats average 16 hours of sleep a day, more than any other mammal
  • female elephants produce only one offspring every five years
  • the gastric juices of a snake can digest bones and teeth, but not fur or hair
  • on average, women dream more than men
  • a newborn hedgehog starts to get its spines within 24 hours of birth
  • the average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting for a traffic life to change
  • women blink nearly twice as much as men
  • most newborns cry without tears until they are three to six weeks old
  • tuna suffocate if they stop swimming
  • on average, women say 7,000 words per day; men manage just over 2,000
  • the size of your foot is approximately the size of your forearm
  • there are more female than male millionaires
  • the average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting for a traffic light to
    change
  • by age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste
    buds
  • in the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees
  • a woman's arthritic pains will almost always disappear when she becomes pregnant
  • ostriches eat pebbles
  • pigs get sunburned
  • the average cob of corn has eight hundred kernels arranged in sixteen rows
  • a cat has 32 muscles in each ear
  • eggplants aren't vegetables, they're really fruits
  • pearls melt in vinegar
  • facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body
  • gynophoia is the fear of women
  • TV's "Bananas in Pyjamas" characters are played by women
  • the strength of all hairs on one human head can support the weight of approximately 1,000 people
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