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| The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough. |
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| On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. |
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| The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. |
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| If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. |
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| Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older. |
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| Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. |
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| The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting. |
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| 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoons that feature both parents and they don't die throughout the movie. |
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| The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. |
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| There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstone Chewables |
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| It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire. |
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| Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. |
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| Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider? |
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| In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head. |
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| In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic. |
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| Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. |
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| A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. |
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| Polar bears are left handed. |
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| A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. |
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| Some lions mate over 50 times a day. |
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