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2201/ If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.

2202/ Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

2203/ The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

2204/ Almonds are a member of the peach family.

2205/ Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.

2206/ The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.

2207/ A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.

2208/ The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

2209/ The green stuff on the occasional freak potatoe chip is chlorophyll.

2210/ The percentage of women who wash their hands after leaving a bathroom is 80%.

2211/ The percentage of men who wash their hands after using a bathroom is 55%.

2212/ The first message tapped by Samuel Morse over his invention the telegraph was: What hath God wrought?.

2213/ The first words spoken by over Alexander Bell over the telephone were: Watson, please come here. I want you.

2214/ The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph were: Mary had a little lamb

2215/ You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.

2216/ Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.

2217/ You breathe about 10 million times a year.

2218/ The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.

2219/ A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.

2220/ The telephone's U.S. patent number is 174,465.

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