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Did you know?
- Movie projectors show 24 frames of film per second.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Thirty-five metres of hair fibre is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
- Baby polar bears weigh only one pound at birth.
- Lions may spend up to 20 hours a day just sleeping.
- Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year.
- Panda teeth are seven times larger than human teeth.
- The smallest butterfly ever found was only half an inch long lengthwise.
- Every time you lick a stamp, you consume about 1/10 of a calorie.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
- It takes about 2 1/2 gallons of oil to make a car tire.
- ALMOST is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a “Friday the 13th.”
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