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"STRANGE BUT TRUE" and "DID YOU KNOW?" facts

Strange but true: Great white sharks have about 3000 teeth.

Strange but true: The sloth - a mammal - moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on the fur of it.

Did you know?: Of the 360 species of shark, only 4 have usually been involved in fatal attacks on humans: The GREAT WHITE, BULL, OCEANIC WHITETIP and TIGER SHARKS.

Strange but true: Cows can detect odours up to five miles away.

Strange but true: There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

Did you know?: The Pacific ocean is three times bigger than Asia, the biggest continent on earth.

Strange but true: In 1990, the largest watermelon ever grown was 262 pounds, by Bill Carson of Tennessee, USA.

Strange but true: The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

Did you know?: The first human to walk on the moon was American, Neil Armstrong on the 20th July 1969.

Strange but true: A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

Strange but true: A snail can sleep for three years.

Did you know?: The first man to fly in an aircraft was a Frenchman, Francois De Rozier in a hot air balloon in 1783.

Strange but true: Babies are born without kneecaps. They dont appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Strange but true: Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

Did you know?: Charles Lindbergh was first person to fly non-stop across the Atlantic ocean.

Strange but true: February 1865 is the only month recorded in history not to have a full moon.

Strange but true: Leonardo DaVinci inverted the scissors.

Did you know?: The first man in space was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin in 1961.

Strange but true: "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" with your right.

Strange but true: 'TYPEWRITTER' is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

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