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Libra Odd-spot #63
Chocolate contains the same chemical that your brain produces when you fall in love - phenylethylamine.
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Libra Odd-spot #353
The fastest sneeze recorded was clocked at 166.7km an hour.
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Libra Odd-spot #49
The strength of all the hairs on one human head can support the weight of approximately 100 people.
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Libra Odd-spot #43
The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.
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Libra Odd-spot #55
Your brain is more active sleeping than it is watching TV.
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Libra Odd-spot #3
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
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Libra Odd-spot #96
A large cumulonimbus cloud can hold enough water for 500,000 baths.
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Libra Odd-spot #67
The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the Kiwi.
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Libra Odd-spot #65
Chickens can travel up to 15km per hour.
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Libra Odd-spot #87
The average person spends 2 weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change.
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Libra Odd-spot #88
Spider silk is a very strong material and its on-weight basis has proven it to be stronger than steel.
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Libra Odd-spot #42
Swedish people drink more coffee than any other race in the world.
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Libra Odd-spot #33
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
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Libra Odd-spot #28
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.
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Libra Odd-spot #23
The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
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Libra Odd-spot #295
Mosquitoes have teeth.
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Libra Odd-spot #56
The blue whale weighs 50 tonnes at birth, and as much as 150 tonnes fully grown.
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Libra Odd-spot #221
The US bought Florida from Spain.
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Libra Odd-spot #78
Facial hair is the fastest growing hair on the body.
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Libra Odd-spot #539
Liquorice can raise your blood pressure.
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Libra Odd-spot #152
The average person spends 2 weeks of their life waiting for a traffic light to change.
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Libra Odd-spot #72
A snail can sleep for three years.
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Libra Odd-spot #90
Ice cream was invented in China around 2000 B.C.
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Libra Odd-spot #24
Cabbage is 91% water.
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Libra Odd-spot #231
All porcupines float in water.
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Libra Odd-spot #544
The human race grows by about 214,000 people.
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Libra Odd-spot #47
Babies have the strongest sense of smell. They can recognise their mothers by scent.
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Libra Odd-spot #123
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that changes seawater to feshwater.
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Libra Odd-spot #61
Megeiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook.
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Libra Odd-spot #265
A horse can sleep standing up.
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Libra Odd-spot #98
Podiatrists state that the average pair of feet travel about 190,000km in a lifetime.
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Libra Odd-spot #152
Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
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Libra Odd-spot #67
In one day, the human brain generates more electrical impulses than telephones in the world put together.
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Libra Odd-spot #9
A lungfish can live out of water in suspended animation for three years.
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Libra Odd-spot #375
There are more plastic flamingoes in America than real ones.
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Libra Odd-spot #31
Scientists have found chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression.
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Libra Odd-spot #432
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get only two hours of sleep each day.
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Libra Odd-spot #53
The average lifespan of a taste bud is 7 to 10 days.
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Libra Odd-spot #10
Men sweat approximately 40% more than women.
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Libra Odd-spot #99
The male fox will mate for life. If the female dies he remains single till death.
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Libra Odd-spot #23
On a clear, dark night a human can see a candle burning 50km away.
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Libra Odd-spot #341
The highest temperature on record was 57.78 degrees on 13 september 1992, in Azizia, Libya.
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Libra Odd-spot #69
Flamingoes live up to 80 years.
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Libra Odd-spot #222
Fish can get seasick.
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Libra Odd-spot #45
The harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument.
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Libra Odd-spot #154
The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws.
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Libra Odd-spot #121
Teeth are the only parts of the human body that can't repair themselves.
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Libra Odd-spot #241
Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
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Libra Odd-spot #111
In the time it takes to read this sentence, 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced.
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Libra Odd-spot #84
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
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Libra Odd-spot #391
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
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Libra Odd-spot #78
Hair grows slowest at night.
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Libra Odd-spot #87
In Pacific Grove, California, it is a misdemeanour to kill a butterfly.
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Libra Odd-spot #61
Snails have teeth.
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Libra Odd-spot #44
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
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Libra Odd-spot #64
Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
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Libra Odd-spot #5
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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Libra Odd-spot #364
On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
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Libra Odd-spot #73
Bees have to collect nectar from four million flowers to make one kilogram of honey.
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Libra Odd-spot #246
One thousand tonnes of meteor dust falls to Earth each day.
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Libra Odd-spot #25
Rats can go without water longer than camels.
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Libra Odd-spot #101
Flounder swim sideways.
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Libra Odd-spot #12
An average snail moves at a rate of 58cm per hour.
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Libra Odd-spot #635
Seals sleep underwater and surface for air without waking.
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Libra Odd-spot #91
Male monkeys go bald in the same way men do.
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Libra Odd-spot #54
There are more people in the world who eat alligators than there are alligators that eat people.
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Libra Odd-spot #291
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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Libra Odd-spot #2
An average person sheds about 750 grams of skin per year.