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275. Fact
Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.
276. Fact
Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.
277. Fact
A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
278. Fact
The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
279. Fact
On average, elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.
281. Fact
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
283. Fact
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
284. Fact
Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin.
285. Fact
Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.
286. Fact
A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
287. Fact
The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
288. Fact
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
289. Fact
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
291. Fact
Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the us is contaminated with bacteria.
292. Fact
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.
293. Fact
An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.
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When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks
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