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Title: Did you know


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Did you know!
  • There are 31.5 million seconds in a year.

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  • In Virginia all bathtubs must be outside and
    not in the house. Brr!

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  • A favourite meal in China is sun dried maggots!
    Tasty!! What are you having for lunch?

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  • Most cows give more milk when they listen to
    music! It has to be nice mooosic!

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  • Bubble gum contains rubber.

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  • No words in the English language rhyme with
    month, orange, silver and purple.

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  • The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters. That
    has to be easy to learn!

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  • The Inuit (Eskimos) have 20 different
    words for snow! Do you snow any of
    them?

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  • The first word spoken on the moon was Okay.

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  • Toilet paper was invented in New York in 1857.
    What did they use before then?

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  • A cross between a goat and a sheep is called a
    geep!

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  • The Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun
    due to the expansion of the metal.

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  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Why
    did he invent it?

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  • Cat urine glows under a black light. Who
    discovered that?

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  • In ancient Egypt men and women wore eyeshadow
    made from crushed beetles.

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  • In 1894 there were only 4 cars in the USA.
  • so no traffic jams then!

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  • Each year lightening starts about 10,000 fires.

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  • An elephant can smell water nearly 5 miles away.
    What did you expect with a nose that BIG!

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  • More than a thousand new insects are discovered
    every year.

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  • Some of these facts were taken from
  • Bryant and Singleton (2005) 1001 Cool Freaky Facts
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