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Giraffes can't cough. The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas). To crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound. In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits. Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree. Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem. A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs. The teeth of a viperfish are so sharp and long that if it closed its mouth with the teeth inside, it would pierce its brain. There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth. The snow on Venus is metal. reload more facts