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If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.
 

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Bald eagles are so named because balde is an old English word meaning white.
The Amazon River discharges 5 times as much water as any other river on the planet.
Mount Everest shrank one inch or 2.5 center manager due to the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
 

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  • The largest bone in the human body is the femur. It can support 30 times the weight of a person's body. Ounce for ounce, that's stronger than steel.

  • Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour (322 km/h).

  • In an adult human, 25% of their bones are in the feet.
 

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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
 

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In many cultures , people believe that you can protect a baby from evil spirits by not complimenting him or her, lest the fates get jealous.
So in Thailand, you might hear an adult coo something like "Fatty" or "Pig". In Bulgaria, adults pretend to spit and insult the baby by saying things like "May the chickens poop on you."
 

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There are likely whales still swimming today that were alive when Moby Dick was published. Moby Dick came out 168 years ago, in 1851.Bowhead whales can live for over 200 years.
 

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From the day Pluto was discovered until the day it lost its status as a major planet, it didn't complete even one orbit around the sun.
 

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The reason most mosquito bites itch is because mosquitos inject saliva into the persons skin before hey suck your blood. The saliva has an anti coagulant agent to stop clotting and hence is an irritant to the skin.
 
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