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#1
The stripes on each tiger are unique, like human fingerprints.

#2
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

#3
It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.

#4
Some chickens are half male, half female.

#5
An Ostrich's eye is 
bigger than its brain.

#6
Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.

#7
When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.

#8
Bananas
are slightly 
radioactive.

#9
A blue whale's heart can be as large as a car.

#10
Edison electrocuted an elephant in 1903 to prove Tesla's AC current was dangerous.

#11
The original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were erased and re-used by mistake.

#12
Elephants are pregnant
for 2 years.

#13
Britney Spears' used pregnancy test was sold on eBay for $5,001.

#14
An experiment in 1998 found that a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.

#15
Only one-half of a dolphin's brain goes to sleep at a time.

#16
The Apollo 11 had about 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.

#17
In Peru, there's a billboard that creates drinkable water out of thin air.

#18
Leeches
have 
32 brains.

#19
Kissing can cause tooth decay.

#20
Oxford University Is Older Than the Aztecs.

#21
It's impossible to 
sneeze while sleeping.

#22
Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood.

#23
There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mountantiseptic

#24
Listerine was invented in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic
and later sold as a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea.

#25
The longest pregnancy in humans on record is 375 days (12.5 months).

#26
There's a blue planet where it rains glass.

#27
In France, you can marry a dead person.

#28
Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.

#29
On Mars, sunsets are blue.

#30
The wood frog and other animals have the ability to freeze solid during winter, thaw in the spring and remain perfectly healthy.

#31
Castration
was used in the Middle Ages
as a "cure" for hernia,
epilepsy, and leprosy.

#32
in 1945,a rooster
named Mike, lived 18 months without a head

#33
Male seahorses 
can get pregnant.

#34
Besides sucking our blood, mosquitoes urinate on our skin.

#35
A russian woman in the 1700s gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets in just 40 years with the same man.

#36
Only two countries in the world are not allowed to sell Coca-Cola officially: North Korea and Cuba.

#37
The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.

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⏰ Last updated: Oct 30, 2016 ⏰

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