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| The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months.
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| There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world
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| The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year.
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| There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth.
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| The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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| The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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| It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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| In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
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| The average person spends 30 years mad at a family member.
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| Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
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| Stewardesses is the longest word typed using only the left hand.
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| Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
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| The electric chair was invented bya dentist. |
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Saudi Arabia is the only country named after its ruling family.
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All owls lay pure white eggs
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| The Pentagon has 17.5 miles of corridors |
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Women make up 49% of the world population.
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| In average a woman smiles more often than a man?
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Yogurt intake among North Americans has quadrupled in the past 20 years.
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| The word "electric" was first used in 1600 by William Gilbert, a doctor to Queen Elizabeth I.
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| In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chev Corvette 24 to one.
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| Carrots have zero fat content.
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| The Egyptians created the first organized navy in 2300 BC.
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| On average in the West, people move house every 7 years.
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| Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
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| The baseball home plate is 17 inches wide.
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| Tokyo was once known as Edo.
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| Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
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| In the Middle Ages the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow was called an ell.
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| In the US there are more TV sets than telephones.
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| If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world.
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| In 1958 the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.
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| Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
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| Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.
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There are more than ten billion web pages on the internet.
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| New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
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The United Nations was founded in 1945.
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| India is the world's largest democracy with more than 600 million voters.
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| The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
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| One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.
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| There are 35 million digestive glands in the stomach.
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| Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
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| Percentage of the labor force who are women: 46.3%
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| Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. - 27-April-1994
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| The Hollywood Neighborhood was named after the Hollywood Theater which opened on July 17th, 1926 with the silent movie, "More Pay-Less Work".
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| Over half a million women die in childbirth every year in Africa and Asia
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| Hrithik Roshan loves collecting photographs.He would never travel anywhere without his personal camera even as a child. Hehas a vast collection photographs and special scrapbooks marking each occasion.
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| David Niven and George Lazenby were the only two actors who played James Bond only once.
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| Girls display what one researcher calls "computer reticence," in part because culture and stereotypes steer them away from machines.
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| In this universe, on every continent there is a city called Rome.
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The magnetic South Pole was discovered in Antarctica.
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| Every human being has a unique tongue print.
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| Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
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