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Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. |
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A hippopotamus can run faster than a man. |
3 |
All
the planets in our solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus.
It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. |
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Almost is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in
alphabetical order. |
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Hummingbirds
are the only animal that can also fly backwards. |
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A zebra is white with black stripes. |
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The
whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the
speed of sound. |
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Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around
the wire. |
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for
1/100th of a second. It is defined as one tick of a computer's clock,
according to dictionary.com. |
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The
names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. |
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(Source:
DavesDaily.com) 17th February 2006 |
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