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1. Some lions mate over 50 times a day
2. A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night
3. The Blue Whale's tongue weighs more than an adult elephant
4. Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts
5. Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks
6. A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel
7. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
8. A group of kangaroos is called a mob
9. The 'vintage date' on a bottle of wine indicates the year the grapes were picked, not the year of bottling
10. Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day
11. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
12. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
13. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
14. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
15. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
16. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge
17. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
18. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
19. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The
frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's
mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
20. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
21. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak
22. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't
23. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
24. Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing
25. A group of unicorns is called a blessing
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