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All porcupines float in water.
Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get leprosy.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Starfishes have no brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Other than that, yes I do believe you learn something new everyday. This morning alone I have learnt that the software I'm working on doesn't write to the event log of the server when a SOAP exception is raised which instead passes it back to the web services client which tries to display it but runs out of room.... which means I have no info to go on to resolve this error.