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You ain't gonna believe this!

You Ain’t Gonna Believe This!

Fun facts that'll blow your mind!
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  • Pre-schoolers require their mum’s attention once every four minutes.
  • An adult body contains enough blood to satisfy 1,200,000 mosquitoes. (Good news, eh?)
  • The golden-clawed male prawn puts all his energy into fighting off other males. If he wins, he then turns into a blue-clawed male, and puts all his energy into mating.
  • Pearls melt in vinegar.
  • If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound-energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it!) 
  • If you break wind consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atom bomb. (Now that’s more like it!) 
  • Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
  • The worldwide “fewest people per square kilometre” award goes to … not Siberia … not the Sahara Desert … but Canada!
  • Just 2% of people who read this list will try to melt a pearl in vinegar. 
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