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AMAZING FACTS

1-The tongue of the crocodile cannot stick
2-Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the four words which end with dous.
3-The only fish that can blink with both eyes is a shark
4-The Niagara falls froze solid as it was so cold in winter of 1932.
5-Tigers don't have striped fur but striped skin.
6-For each gallon of diesel it burns the cruise liner QE2 moves only six inches.
7-Kneecaps of a body are formed only when they reach the age between 2 to 6 years.
8-Compared to men, women blink nearly twice.
9-The English word that ends in mt is Dreamt
10-Its not possible to keep your eyes open and sneeze.
11-An average American spends 6 months in his whole life at red lights
12-The scissors was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci
13-When we are born our nose and ears keeps growing but the size of our eyes remains the same.
14-The longest word typed with the left hand is stewardesses and with the right is lollipop.
15-If rubber bands are refrigerated they last longer
16-56% of the average typing work is done with the left hand
17-In every two weeks if the stomach does not produce a new layer of mucus it will digest itself
18-The words read left to right or right to left in the words racecar kayak and level are the same.
19-When a chocolate bar melted in the pocket after a researcher walked by a radar tube, he invented the microwave.
20-The brain of the Ostrich is smaller than its eyes
21-Vocal sounds of a dog are 10 and that of a cat are over one hundred
22-In each ear of the cat there are 32 muscles
23-Life span of a dragonfly is 24 hours
24-A snail can sleep for three years
25-Memory span of a goldfish is for three seconds

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