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National Geographic Weird but True (Outrageous Facts!)

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Many bird's feathers weigh more than their bones.Peanut butter can be converted into a diamond.
New York City's Empire State Building was built using 10 million bricks.The tallest volcano on Mars is about 17 miles high. That's 84 times higher than the Eiffel Tower.
Cheetahs can change direction midair when chasing prey.The tallest known snowman was higher than a 12-story building.
Star Wars creators designed Yoda to look like Albert Einstein.The most overdue library book was 288 years late.
If you could travel the speed of light, you would never get older.A sneeze travels 100 miles per hour.
A blue whale's heart weighs up to 2,000 pounds.About a million Earths could fit inside the sun.
The world's lightest mammal, the Bumblebee Bat, weighs about as much as two M&Ms.If grasshoppers were the size of people, they could leap the length of a basketball court.
There are 29 different shades of red crayola crayons.An average yawn lasts about 6 seconds.
Opposite sides of dice always add up to 7.A slinky can stretch from a 6th-floor window to the ground.
Your eyes move about 80 times per second.As U.S. dollar bill can be folded in the same spot about 4,000 times before it tears.



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