The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved swallowed iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks.

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Gold is so ductile that a single ounce can be drawn into a fine wire 50 miles long.

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The total amount of skin covering the human body weighs six pounds. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

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The albatross can glide on air currents for several days and can even sleep while in flight.

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Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

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Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

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If the normal one hundred thousand hairs on a head were woven into a rope, it could support a weight of more than twelve tons

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In South America a fish known as the payara has saber teeth that are two inches long. A common bait used to catch these freshwater fish is a small piranha

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While humans have 639 muscles, caterpillars have over four thousand

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A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water.

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Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

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Lightning strikes the earth somewhere more than seventeen million times every day, or about two hundred times every second

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Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world

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Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet

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