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| A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. |
| Your muscles make up about one-half of your body weight. |
| About half of the bones in the human body are located in the hands and feet. |
| An adult human heart weighs about 10 ounces and beats over 100,000 times a day. |
| Pearls are found in oysters. The largest pearl ever found was 620 carats. |
| The heaviest fish ever caught was the OCEAN SUNFISH. It weighed 4,928 lbs. |
| The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. |
| A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. |
| Turtles can breathe through their butts. |
| It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs. |
| Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older. |
| A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself. |
| The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9. |
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