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Did you know: A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. (Where do I find a man like that pig?!?!) 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. (This one is SCARY!) 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints. A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why. A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and swim to shore -- where a tree blew over and killed him. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though! A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
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