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Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
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The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
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The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
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Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A
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Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in
the world.
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Starfish have no brain.
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Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which
containing the letter "E".
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Bulls are colour blind.
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Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
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A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
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"Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
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Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
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Lip stick contains fish scales.
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Ants never sleep.
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The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
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The largest pumpkin weighed 377 lbs.
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The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
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The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
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Kidney stones come in any colour from yellow to brown.
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Women blink twice as many times as men do.
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The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the
world that sells hot dogs.
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A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
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The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
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Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
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The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
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Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes
it was 3A.
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The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
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The shortest commercial ever was only 4 frames of a second.
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Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
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The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
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A stretched out Slinky is 87 feet long.
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The hundred billionth Crayola crayon was Perriwinkle Blue.
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Dr.Seuss pronounced "Seuss" so it rhymed with "rejoice".
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Babies are born without knee caps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years
of age.
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An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
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Emus can't walk backwards.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
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A group of whales is called a pod.
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A group of geese is called a gaggle.
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A group of owls is called a parliament.
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A group of ravens is called a murder.
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A group of bears is called a sleuth.
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12 or more cows is called a flink.
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A baby oyster is called a spat.
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
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Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
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The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
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A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
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Pinocchio was made of pine.
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A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
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