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2481/ Butterflies taste with there feet.

2482/ If you have a tape worm, and you put your head over a pot of coffee with your mouth open the tape worm will crawl out of your mouth and extend toward the coffee, therefore you can just grab it and pull it out.

2483/ Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players’ last names ended with the same 2 letters, "OV."

2484/ A Snail’s genitals are on its head.

2485/ Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

2486/ To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

2487/ Assuming ruldolf was in front, there are 40,319 ways to rearrange the other reindeer.

2488/ The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

2489/ 85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

2490/ The number of the trash compactor in Star Wars is 3263827.

2491/ The small Darwin's frog, which lives in Chile's cool forest streams, nurtures its young in an unusual manner. After the female lays 30 or so eggs, the male guards them for two weeks and then swallows the surviving ones. In the male's vocal pouch, the offspring develop until they're able to survive on their own and hop out

2492/ Most lipstick contains fish scales.

2493/ When frogs eat something that is poisonous or otherwise bad for them, they can throw up their entire stomach. That is, the stomach actually protrudes through their mouth and they wipe it with their right front leg.

2494/ Frogs may be hypnotised by placing them on their back and gently stroking their stomach.

2495/ Scientists have managed to mix a goat with a spider to create a goat that produces spider's silk in its milk. The goats look completely normal, and they are in fact only 1/70,000th spider. By inserting just one spider gene into a goat's egg, the adult goat produces milk that can be processed to create an incredibly strong spider's silk fabric. The 'Biosteel' fabric is estimated to be five times as strong as steel, and about the same weight as cotton.

2496/ Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.

2497/ Pope Leo X was probably the most unorthodox of all the Popes in that he once publicly denied the existence of God. He was extremely fond of entertaining his friends. He also loved hunting and going to the opera. He raised money to fund his lavish lifestyle by selling indulgences, written certificates that cleared the purchaser of all previous sins, thereby guaranteeing them a place in heaven.

2498/ in 1982 a man was killed by a cactus. David Grundman was in the Arizona desert near Phoenix when he decided to shoot a 23 foot giant saguaro cactus. After firing two shots at the plant, it fell over on top of Grundman and crushed him to death.

2499/ A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

2500/ Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

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