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Turtles can live for more than 100 years.

An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.

The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.

The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.

If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.

A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.

Ocean waves can travel as fast as a JET Plane.

The first drawings of a helicopter are nearly 500 years old.

A butterfly warms up its body up to 81 degrees Fahrenheit before flying.

A whale can swim for 3 months without eating.

A human being drinks 16,000 tons of water in a lifetime.

We blink 25 times a minute.

To melt away 1 pound of fat you will need to walk 34 miles.

The star fish is actually not a fish, its an animal. ( phylum : Echinodermate )

Male mosquitoes do not bite, so blame the females next time.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.

The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet.

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

The small intestine is 7-8 meters long, making it the largest organ inside the human body. The large intestine is only 1-1.5 meters long!

The largest lizard in the world is the Komodo dragon which reaches up to 3 meters and sometimes longer was named because of it's fiery tongue. It is often longer than a car.