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1. Giraffes can't swim.

2. Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper.

3. An elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.

4. Bull's can run faster uphill than down.

5. Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

6. A moth has no stomachDid you knowgrasshoppers have white blood.

7. It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.

8. New York was once called New Amsterdam.

9. There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.

10. Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around).

11. The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.

12. More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator.

13. Two (2) million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop.

14. Hawaii officially became apart of the US in 1900.

15. The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia.

16. New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.

17. The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake.

18. There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.

19. The largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.

20. Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.

21. Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames).
22. One (1) gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.

23. The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.

24. Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January.

25. The Moons diameter is 3,476km.

Source: didyouknowfacts(dot)com