Did you know...-Liquorice can raise your blood pressure.
-A woman's arthritic pains will almost always
disappear when she is pregnant.
-Cold water weighs less than hot.
-Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis.
-Over 1500 new species have been found in Australian waters in the past 10 years.
-Humans produce about 40,000 litres of saliva in a lifetime.
-It takes about 550 peanuts to make a jar of Peanut Butter.
-A man's voice is deeper than a woman's because males have longer vocal chords.
-The Koala is one of the few land animals that does not require water to survive.
-The garfish has green bones.
-Hair grows slowest at night.
-The skeleton of a 70kg only weighs 13kg.
-Rats can swim for a kilometre without resting. They can also tread water for three days straight.
-Babies have taste buds all over the inside of their mouths, not just on their tongues.
-Six year-
olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh 15-100 times a day.
-Elephants and short-tailed shrews get only two hours of sleep a day.
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Impurities in gemstones give them their colour.
-On average, woman say 7000 words a day. Men manage just 2000.
-A cucumber is 96% water.
-Each King in a deck of cards represents a great leader from history: Spades-King David, Hearts-Charlemagne, Clubs-Alexander the Great,Diamonds-Julius
Caesar.
-The term karaoke means 'empty
orchestra'.
-When a woman is pregnant, her uterus expands to 500 times its normal size.
-The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.
-Clouds fly
lower during the night than during the day.
-The oyster is usually
ambisexual.It begins life as a male and becomes a female. It may go back and forth many time throughout its existence.
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