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A collection of interesting facts from Pebblesbysea:

• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
• Starfishes haven’t got brains.
• The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a footbal field.
• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
• It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
• Polar bears are left handed.
• A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.
• The giraffe has a black tongue that is 14 inches long and about no vocal cords.
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals having the most taste buds.
• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
• It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The pupil of the human eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

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