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Some Cool Facts About The Human Body

Just When You Thought You Knew Everything: 

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. 

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. 

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

A snail can sleep for three years. 


Almonds are a member of the peach family. 

Butterflies taste with their feet 


Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. 

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. 

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). 

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 

There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels In order: "abstemious" and "facetious." 

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; Otherwise it will digest itself.