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When glass breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it.

The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.

Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct

7977. Animal Facts

Scorpions paralyze their prey before they suck the juices out. It's not dead, but it can't escape.

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark

In 1958, the Crayola crayon color Prussian Blue was changed to Midnight Blue by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history

Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Ironically, a dentist named William Semple was behind the decision.

The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head

On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced

Snakes are immune to their own poison.

Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States

The first British ship to use the SOS distress signal was the Titanic

Polaris is the closest visible star to true north and is thus referred to as the North Star. By sometime around the year 2100, the wobble of the Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris. By the year 14,000 A.D., the new North Star will be Vega.

7990. Animal Facts

The female praying mantis begins to eat the male during mating; he carries on, but she eventually eats all of him.

The fastest land animal is the cheetah, however the fastest animal in the world is the prerigine falcon, which can dive at 217mph

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog

The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming

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