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You Ain’t Gonna Believe This!

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  • You share 60% of your genes with fruit flies … 90% of your genes with mice … and 96% of your DNA with the large apes. 
  • A caterpillar has three times as many muscles in its body as a human being.
  • To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, simply push your thumbs into its eyeballs – it will let you go instantly. We hope. 
  • My goal during the Covid-19 lockdown was to have all my friends gain 10 kilos so I looked skinnier.
  • Sneezes can travel at a speed of 100 miles per hour and the wet spray can radiate five feet.
  • The largest living thing is a mushroom located in Malheur National Park (Oregon, USA). It covers 2,200 acres and is between 2000 and 8000 years old.
  • 120 drops are needed to fill an average sized teaspoon. 
  • Office desks have 400 times more bacteria than toilet seats.
  • You lose 50 to 150 strands of hair each day. 
  • Around 7% of people who read this list will carefully check how many drops it takes to fill a teaspoon. 
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