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 Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:06 pm
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Fact: Did you know the hummingbird makes its nest out of spiderwebs?
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:43 pm
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Fact: The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 5:54 pm
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Fact: Amazonian butterflies drink turtle tears for essential mineral sodium that is scant in the western Amazon.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:05 pm
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Fact: The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:30 pm
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Fact:When happy, rats have been observed to chatter or grind their teeth. This is often accompanied by vibrating eyes. This is known as Bruxting and Boggling. Without companionship rats tend to become lonely and depressed. They are social animals who enjoy other rat's company as well as humans
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:36 pm
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Fact: Most of the microbes that make up a baby’s gut community are acquired during birth — a microbially rich and messy process that exposes the baby to a whole suite of maternal microbes. Babies born by Caesarean, however, a comparatively sterile procedure, do not acquire their mother’s vaginal and intestinal microbes at birth
[source: nytimes]
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 7:00 pm
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Fact: Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 7:25 pm
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Fact: Whipping their tails, E. coli can travel 25 times their own length in 1 second, equivalent to a horse running 135 miles per hour. [Discover Magazine]
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:19 pm
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Fact: Cows don't have upper front teeth!
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 8:44 pm
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Fact: Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye tubes.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:16 pm
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Fact: Qilin generally have Chinese dragon-like features. Most notably their heads, eyes with thick eyelashes, manes that always flow upward and beards. The body is fully or partially scaled and often shaped like an ox, deer, or horse. Always shown with cloven hooves. In modern times, the depictions of qilin have often fused with the Western concept of unicorns.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:52 pm
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Fact: Otters have built in pockets under their arms
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:17 pm
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Fact: More turtles will be born female than male in warmer weather (fact from Mnn website)
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:22 pm
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Fact: Butterflies can taste with their feet.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 10:25 pm
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Fact: Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
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