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A few facts that you might never come across, but your life will be incomplete without:

The top 109 highest mountains in the world are all in Asia and 96 of them are in the Himalayas.
A beard grows an average of 140 mm a year.
Laika, a dog, was the world’s first ever space astronaut. She was sent into space in an artificial earth satellite in 1957 by the Russian government.
Al Gore coined the phrase information superhighway.
Four Corners is the spot in the United States where a person can stand in four states at the same time.
A mole will die if it doesn’t get food within 12 hours.
Las Vegas has more hotel rooms than any other place on Earth.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.
Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Starfish have no brains.
The typewriter is an Italian invention.
We forget 80 per cent of what we learn everyday.
By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
The ‘L.L.’ in L.L. Bean stands for ‘Leon Leonwood’.
The smell of peppermint improvers concentration.
Finland has about 190,000 lakes.
Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
Julius Caesar was known as a great swimmer.
Darwin once ate an owl.
Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw.
The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
Mineral deposits in caves: the ones growing upwards are stalagmites, the ones growing downward are stalactites.
Panspermia is the idea that life on the Earth originated on another planet.
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
The infinity character on the keyboard is called a lemniscate.
All porcupines float in water.
As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head!

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