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781.Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.2.The Milky Way rotates at a speed of 552 kilometres per second.3.The fear that somewhere in the world, a duck or a goose is watching him/her is called anatidaephobia.4.In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world%u2019s nuclear weapons combined.5.Walt Disney was a secret informant for the FBI for the last 26 years of his life.6.Kawah Ijen is a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue lava.7.Sharks are immune to diseases, i.e. they do not suffer from any disease.8.New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.9.The dwarf planet Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun; meaning that since its discovery in 1930, it has only travelled around 33% of its orbit.10.The eyes of the chameleon can move independently and can see in two different directions at the same time.11.A pig%u2019s tongue contains 15,000 taste buds, on the other hand, a human%u2019s tongue has only 9,000 taste buds.12.The pleasant smell of rain is the smell of the bacteria called Actinomycetes. They are of great importance because of their contribution to the soil and forests.13.A chimpanzee can learn to recognise itself in a mirror, but a monkey cannot.%u0009 14.%u0009 OfallthewordsintheEnglishlanguage,theword%u2018set%u2019hasthemostdefinitions.%u0009 15.%u0009 Onlyabout5percentofthebodyofajellyfishissolid.Theydon%u2019thaveblood,brainor even a heart, but they can sting really bad.16.There are 2,700 languages with over 7,000 individual dialects spoken around the world today.%u0009 17.%u0009 Thereare2,400languagesclassifiedasbeingendangered.18.There are 6 to 14 frog species in the world that have no tongue. One of these is the African dwarf frog.%u0009 19.%u0009 Morethan100speciesofplants,39invertebrates,26fish,10amphibians,onereptile, one bird and a mammal have been discovered from the Himalayan region since 2009.20.Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.Not To Miss!