- The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.
- A pumpkin really is a fruit.
- Cows don't have upper front teeth.
- Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.
- Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
- A bear has 42 teeth.
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