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