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World's smartest dogs are border collie; poodle; and golden retriever.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. Share your odd facts on Factpark.com.
The gorilla can understand approximately 2,000 English words. Share animal, fun facts, random facts, and amusing facts on FactPark.com.
Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant materials. Share animal facts on FactPark.com.
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Most fruits are categorized in a way that it's surprising to people. How is a pineapple categorized? To most people's surprises, a pineapple is a berry.
What fruit has the highest calories? Avocados. They have the highest calories, at 167 calories per hundred grams.
World's smartest dogs are border collie; poodle; and golden retriever.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. Share your odd facts on Factpark.com.
Proportional to their weight, men are stronger than horses.
Christopher Michael Langan (born c. 1952) is an American autodidact whose IQ was reported to have been measured at between 195 and 210.
Mariusz Pudzianowski is a strongman competitor. He has won more World's Strongest Man titles than any other strongman competitor, winning the event in 2008 for the fifth time.
The world's smallest state, the Vatican city is 0.2 square miles and has a population of 770. The tiny country which surrounds St. Peter's Basilica is the spiritual center for the world's Roman Catholics. The Vatican City is surrounded by Rome, Italy.
The tallest man-made structure is Burj Dubai, a skyscraper under construction in Dubai that reached 818 m (2,684 ft) in height on 17 January 2009.
Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buying back the bonds on which they are based.
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Charles Osborne had hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
The ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye. Fact.
Although yams and sweet potatoes are both angiosperms (flowering plants), they are not related botanically. Yams are a monocot (a plant having one embryonic seed leaf) and from the Dioscoreaceae or Yam family. Sweet Potatoes, often called ‘yams’, are a dicot (a plant having two embryonic seed leaves) and are from the Convolvulacea or morning glory family.
How did the grapefruit get its name? It doesn't look like a grape. It is believed that the name refers to the manner in which grapefruit grows in clusters on a tree.
7 out of 10 people believe in life after death in the world.
The first tubular steel coaster was the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA (1959).
During the 19th century, Salem, Massachusetts played an important role in the world pepper trade and made some of America's first millionaires.
Unstable chemicals. Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. It stimulates the eyes' lachrymal glands so they release tears.
The first published English novel was writtn by Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, (written in 1470 and published 1485).
In Elizabethan slang, the term "to die" meant to have an orgasm.
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