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• 16: The human eye, given enough time to adjust, can see almost as well as an owl’s.
• 21: Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920s, was called “crisphead”.
• 22: It takes on average 90 squirts from a cow’s udder to make a litre of milk.
• 24: Mosquitoes have teeth.
• 35: A 55kg crocodile exerts a force of aproximately 700kg between its jaws.
• 38: Up until the age of six or seven months, children can breath and swallow simultaneously.
• 68: Around four billion litres of petroleum is consumed throughout the world each day.
• 52: A tightrope walker is called a funambulist.
• 58: The male fox will mate for life. If the female dies he remains single until death.
• 75: 26 minutes of slow dancing will burn about 420 kilojoules.
• 97: The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.

• 106: The average weight loss of a racehorse during a race is between 6kg and 10kg.
• 116: Sheep will not drink from running water.
• 117: When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as the “tragic lamppost”.
• 124: The mechanical shark in the movie “Jaws” was nicknamed Bruce.
• 127: Bananas grow on plants that are giant herbs, and are related to the lily and orchid family.
• 137: About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.
• 142: Greyhounds eyesight is the best of any breed of dog.
• 150: Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
• 152: The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drown the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
• 157: The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
• 159: In Elizabethan times, carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
• 166: Vintage port takes 40 years to reach maturity.
• 181: The largest pumpkin ever grown recorded a weight of 482kg.
• 182: The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
• 193: The rush of air produced by a cough can approach 1000km an hour.

• 200: There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.
• 207: A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• 229: Horseracing regulations require no racehourse’s name to contain more than 18 letters.
• 239: All hurricanes form over water and last for about 10 days.
• 244: A 500g loaf of bread requires 2 tonnes of water to grow the wheat to produce it.
• 256: Proportionally, Earth’s atmosphere is thinner than the skin of an apple.
• 263: Flounder swim sideways.
• 270: An average snail moves at a rate of 58cm per hour.
• 289: Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongues.
• 292: During the 16th and 17th centuries in England, egg whites were a popular form of laundry detergent.

• 300: Blype is the name given to skin that peels off after sunburn.
• 308: A lungfish can live out of water in suspended animation for three years.
• 309: Only two animals can see completely behind themselves without turning their heads: the rabbit and the parrot.
• 336: Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
• 347: Fish can get seasick.
• 348: Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• 349: One of the best ways to clean pewter is with cabbage leaves.
• 350: Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist; William Semple.
• 351: Due to its eye placement a donkey can see all of its hooves at the same time.
• 352: If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to function.
• 353: There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
• 360: A tiger’s paw prints are called pug marks.
• 361: In the time it takes to read this sentence, 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced.
• 374: A skunk can be detected by a human over one kilometer away.
• 375: A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.