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| Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing. |
| Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk. |
| The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964. |
| The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary. |
| Geller and Huchra have made three-dimensional maps of the distribution of galaxies. In each layer of the map some galaxies are grouped together in such a way that they resemble a human being. |
| The first word spoken by an ape in the movie Planet of the Apes was "Smile". |
| The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoron- ukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. |
| Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make - $5 million going to actor's salaries. |
| The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. |
| Only humans and horses have hymens. |
| The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. |
| Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. |
| The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of 5megabytes. |
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