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  • You’re born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
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  • Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
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  • Figlet, an ASCII font converter program, stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters.
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  • A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
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  • Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.
    Animal Facts
  • The longest one-syllable word in the English language is 'screeched.'
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  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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  • The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929, '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
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