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There are three time zones in America.

The Maldives actually consists of 1196 islands.

An elephant can carry four tons with its trunk.

Finger nails grow faster than toe nails.

Adolf Hitler `s favourite film was King Kong.

Raindrops fall in the form of Hamburger rolls.

The Olympic Games were not held in 1916,1940 and 1944 due to war.

An insect doesn`t close its eyes when sleeping.

A cat sleeps up to 14 hours a day.

The 1982 movie Ghandi used more than 300 000 extras in one scene in the movie.

There are 52 white keys on a standard piano.

The great wall of China is about 2400 km long

A blonde beard grows faster than any other beard.

A typical chicken will lay approximately 19 dozen eggs a year.

The average person takes about 2.5 million steps in a year.

During the winter ,arctic sea ice covers about 12 million square km of the sea.

A cow has no upper front teeth.

An owl can turn his head 180 degrees.

The ten highest volcanoes in the world all form part of the Andes Mountain range.

The first people to write down music were the Greeks.

Lightning can have temperatures of up to 80 000 degrees Celsius.

The silk that spiders produce to weave webs is the strongest known natural fibre.

Some scorpions can squirt their venom like snakes.

One tree-snake tries to swallow another when they are fighting.

A cat has three eyelids on each eye.

The ice in an iceberg can be thousands of years old.

A camel has a straight backbone.

Churches were first built in the third century.