- Moisture (not air) causes super glue to dry.
- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
- The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'.
- Birds need gravity to swallow.
- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- Hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick.
- At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.
- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
- 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.
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