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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kpg" data-source="post: 11794030" data-attributes="member: 104262">76. If a sole (a type of fish) lays upon a chessboard it can change  the colouring of its body to match the pattern of the chess board. The  sole takes about 4 minutes to make the change. 77. Of all the animals on earth the mosquito has contributed to the deaths of more people than any other animal. 78.  In the courts of the Roman Empire, instead of swearing an oath on a  bible, men swore to the truth on their statements while holding their  genitals. Hence the word 'testify', from 'testicles'. 79. The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate - hence its brand name, Persil.80.  If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100  people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there  would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans.  Only 1 would own a computer. 81. All elephants walk on tiptoe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.82. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.83. Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States.84. Chicken liver can be used to change A type blood to O type blood. 85.  It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the  earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out  8 minutes ago.86. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.87. An octopus has 3 hearts. 88. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. 89. The hair on a polar bear is not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.90. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.91.  The combination "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways; Read  this: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through  the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and  hiccoughed."92. The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessel is so broad, that a person could swim through it. 93.  A left-handed person finds it easier to open a jar than a right-handed  person because they can supply a stronger anticlockwise turning force  than a right-handed person. However a right-handed person will find it  easier to tighten the jar up afterwards. 94. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth would fit easily inside the Sun.95. A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.96. Typewriter is the longest word that can be made only using one row on the keyboard. 97. Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.98. The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. 99. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 100. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar (euro, pound). </blockquote>

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