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The world's record for rocking nonstop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

Your heart pumps about 4,200 gallons of blood every day.

Deep sea clams can live to be more than 100 years old.

Old Faithful, a geyser in Yellowstone National Park, can spout water 170

feet in the air. That is as high as a 17-story building!

The largest turtle ever found weighed 2,016 pounds.

The largest jellyfish ever found had tentacles that were more than 118 feet

long.

In 1985, two people played checkers for 138 hours without stopping.

Americans eat 228,000 onions every day.

The toothbrush was invented in China in 1498.

A millipede was once found with 700 legs. That is an insect kingdom record!

Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles

per hour.

Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

The only rocks in the ice of Antarctica are meteorites.

Kangaroo rats can live their entire lives without taking a drink of water.

Some scientists estimate that 10 percent of all species of fish are

endangered.

To reach rivers and lakes where they spend most of their lives, many newborn

eels swim for up to 3,000 miles nonstop.

A bee's buzz is caused by its wings flapping at the rate of 250 times a

second.

In the jungle, a lion's roar can be heard 10 miles away.

In the desert, the temperature can drop as much as 80 degrees Farenheit at

night.

Comets - once thought to be giant snowballs - are really frozen balls of

mud.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

Most Americans eat 40 tons (80,000 pounds) of food during their lifetime.

Ice hockey players can shoot pucks at about 100 miles per hour.

Though they seem white through a telescope, the hottest stars are blue, and

the coolest are red.

Because its eyes are on the side of its head, a rabbit can see behind itself

without turning its head.

The Midwestern United States has the world's greatest number of tornadoes

per year.

 

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