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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. *Blink*

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

I will admit, I'm more terrified of spiders than death, but for obvious reasons.

Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.

Ana wrote:

Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.

That won't be comforting to people who have arachnophobia. Now they'll know a large spider can chase them for thirty years.

Jonathan Garner wrote:

Ana wrote:

Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.

That won't be comforting to people who have arachnophobia. Now they'll know a large spider can chase them for thirty years.

*wants to laugh but can't* Oh the horror!

Women blink nearly twice as much as men. *Blink*

OH NO!

That means we are twice as likely to die by the hands of the Weeping Angels.

Jonathan would disagree.

If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you". *ok I know you just tryed that*

The longest earthworm can be around 50 feet long.

Jonathan Garner wrote:

The longest earthworm can be around 50 feet long.

That's a long worm...

Bethany Faith wrote:

Jonathan Garner wrote:

The longest earthworm can be around 50 feet long.

That's a long worm...

Yes. I don't think anyone will be putting one of those onto a hook to fish with.

If they did, they would catch one very happy fish.

Drivers kill more deer than hunters.

Surprisingly I knew about several of these.... what does that say about me?

40% of women have hurled footwear at a man. *now seriously women! shame on you shame!!!*

Surprisingly I knew about several of these.... what does that say about me?

Ana wrote:

Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.

That won't be comforting to people who have arachnophobia. Now they'll know a large spider can chase them for thirty years.

Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!

Author:	Ana Mimetes [ November 22nd, 2011, 2:09 pm ]
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I love facts! Here are some really strange ones I have found over my years of fact finding. Ana The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1! The electric chair was invented by a dentist! Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland! A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average! Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times! Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks! A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone! A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove! Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!! Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee! The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas! One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television! The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year! It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska! You're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206! Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete! Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! The state of Florida is bigger than England! There are more than one million animal species on Earth! In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland! Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark! Does anyone else know any weird, strange, or useless facts?

Author:	J. Grace Pennington [ November 22nd, 2011, 2:16 pm ]
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Ana! These are awesome and hilarious. I love this kind of thing! If I think of any I'll post them here. Thanks for sharing!

Author:	Elly [ November 22nd, 2011, 5:07 pm ]
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I've appeared on television. I like all of those facts!

Author:	Lady Elanor [ November 22nd, 2011, 5:13 pm ]
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They're hilarious and amazing, Ana!

Author:	Ana Mimetes [ November 22nd, 2011, 5:51 pm ]
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Here's more. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate Rice paper does not have any rice in it! A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day! Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace! In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice! The average person laughs 13 times a day! Dogs can hear sounds that you can't! Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women! It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them! Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! wow talent Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions! A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans! Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States! In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces! There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones! About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30! More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones! A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.! Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year! It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland! There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses! Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes! In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals! The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs! A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate! More Monopoly money is printed in a year than real money printed throughout the world! The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump! America once issued a 5-cent bill! You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow! Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying! On average people fear spiders more than they do death. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Blink No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH". "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. Worldwide, over 50 million roses are given for Valentine's Day each year. 73% of people who buy flowers for Valentine's Day are men, while only 27% are women. No duh Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem. In the United States, you are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a shark attack. Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 people have been injured. If you eat an entire full big bag of Lay's Original Potato Chips, which is 170 chips, you will get your complete 100% of Vitamin C for the day. Food stylists use Krazy Glue to keep food in place during photography sessions for advertisements, television commercials and motion pictures. In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

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Author:	Lady Elizabeth [ November 22nd, 2011, 6:43 pm ]
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What a great thread, Ana! I found so many of them funny, and I was amazed at some of them. Here's some to add: 200,000 sheets of gold leaf, a very thin hammered piece of gold, can only make a stack an inch high, while that many sheets of paper would be five stories high! 500 billion trillion atoms can be found in one teaspoon of water!

Author:	Aragorn [ November 22nd, 2011, 7:18 pm ]
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Neat facts, Ana. I especially like the animal facts.

Author:	Aldara [ November 22nd, 2011, 11:02 pm ]
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Did you know that... Contrary to popular belief, the North Pole does not belong to Canada. However, Santa Claus is supposedly from Canada.

Author:	Bethany Faith [ November 23rd, 2011, 9:58 am ]
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Haha, nice thread, Ana! I have a book called "Did you know?" and it has a bunch of crazy facts like this. I read it once in two days. I couldn't stop giggling. Maybe I'll get it out of my closet and put a few of them on here.

Author:	Manda Kondrael [ November 23rd, 2011, 11:11 am ]
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Ana wrote: The electric chair was invented by a dentist! A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie! The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose. I love these ones.

Author:	Ophelia MirZA Mimetes [ November 23rd, 2011, 12:56 pm ]
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! These are great Ana!! I love to get books from the library with things like this! ~ZA

Author:	Cheyenne [ November 26th, 2011, 10:06 am ]
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The termite is the most flatulent animal. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. A snail can sleep for 3 years. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer. In the 1983 film "JAWS 3D" the shark blows up. Some of the shark guts were the stuffed ET dolls being sold at the time. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

Author:	AzlynRose [ November 26th, 2011, 11:48 am ]
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Hehe! This is a funny thread. Cheyenne wrote: If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck. For some reason that one doesn't surprise me. Ana wrote: Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Blink No wonder my brothers always beat me in staring contests.

Author:	Seabird Mimetes [ November 26th, 2011, 12:22 pm ]
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I will admit, I'm more terrified of spiders than death, but for obvious reasons.

Author:	Ana Mimetes [ November 26th, 2011, 4:15 pm ]
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Seabird wrote: I will admit, I'm more terrified of spiders than death, but for obvious reasons. But the worse a spider can do to you is kill you? confused Here are some more, I am glad you all are enjoying these. A ham was a term given to an actor of low grade around 1875. The term is derived from the used of pig fat, which actors used instead of cold cream to remove makeup. In the ancient Greece, Rome, and the medieval world it was considered disgraceful for a woman to go on the stage. In the time of William Shakespeare women's roles were generally played by men or boys. The name Scrooge entered the English language as a synonym for a miser, and the phrase 'Bah! Humbug!' dismissive of the festive spirit. Fido means faithful in Latin. wonders what toto means? Caterpillar means "hairy cat" in Old French. The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever. On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later. The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters. The word Spain means "the land of rabbits." Author Robert May considered the names of Reginald and Rollo before he settled on "Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer." Leonardo De Vinci invented the scissors. Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning. didn't see that one coming The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak. Did you know your body is 10 years old? Within 10 years every cell in your body will be replaced with new cells. Kissing at the conclusion of a wedding ceremony can be traced to ancient Roman tradition where a kiss was used to sign a contract. why does rome take the romance out of everything! Nails grow at different speeds on both hands. If you are right-handed, the nails on your right hand will grow faster than the nails on your left hand and vice versa. Men's fingernails grow faster than women's nails. Not all germs are bad. The human body harbors some 1000 species of bacteria, most of which live in a mutually beneficial relationship with us - we keep them alive and they keep us healthy. Killing all bacteria on and in you will make you more vulnerable to disease. Germ Alert - While 95% of people say they wash their hands after using the restroom, only 67% really! And Of that group, just 33% use soap, and only 16% wash their hands long enough to make it count. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. Laughing is a way of releasing stored up negative emotions. Jokes increases our sense of belonging, and by psychologically connecting us with others, feelings of alienation, a major factor in depression, is counteracted. Laughter requires the coordination of many muscles throughout the body: a long bout of laughter is like aerobics. It gives your diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory, facial, leg and back muscles a workout. About 50 percent of people who are allergic to latex are often also allergic to bananas. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack. Smiling releases endorphins in the body, which makes people feel better. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Post-It Notes, which are adhesive notes, were invented while looking for a way to improve the acrylate adhesive found in tapes. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time. It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States. 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set. By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors. Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers. The best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayons. An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet. When a porcupine is born, its quills are soft and mostly white, but harden within hours. Tarantulas can live up to 30 years.

Author:	Danko Sandai [ November 26th, 2011, 12:32 pm ]
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Haha these are hilarious Ana. Here's some more: The earth gains 1,000 metric tons a day from space dust. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. It is estimated that a plastic container will not decompose for as long as 50,000 years. Slugs have shells, they're just on the inside of their body. Metal shrinks when it's cold, that's why the Eiffel tower is 6 inches shorter in winter. Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom. More than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year! The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. Well I feel like I have barely given any facts. This was just a quick rack of the brain. Ana wrote: Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Blink Really?!?!?!? I heard that women blink once every six seconds, and men blink once every eight seconds. Blink Lady Elizabeth wrote: A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.! * Sweet. I have heard: Women sneeze about 100 M.P.H but men sneeze at about 120 M.P.H But I may be wrong.

Author:	Aleena Mimetes [ November 26th, 2011, 5:22 pm ]
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I love these last ones. Especially the Barbie one...

Author:	Aragorn [ November 26th, 2011, 7:37 pm ]
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Ana wrote: Tarantulas can live up to 30 years. That won't be comforting to people who have arachnophobia. Now they'll know a large spider can chase them for thirty years.

Author:	Bethany Faith [ November 26th, 2011, 7:40 pm ]
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All the Barbie facts reminded me of on I heard at a lecture once... If Barbie were a real person she would have to walk on all fours. Her body would be disproportionate.

Author:	Lady Elanor [ November 26th, 2011, 7:56 pm ]
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Jonathan Garner wrote: Ana wrote: Tarantulas can live up to 30 years. That won't be comforting to people who have arachnophobia. Now they'll know a large spider can chase them for thirty years. wants to laugh but can't Oh the horror!

Author:	Ana Mimetes [ November 26th, 2011, 8:02 pm ]
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Lady Elanor wrote: Jonathan Garner wrote: Ana wrote: Tarantulas can live up to 30 years. That won't be comforting to people who have arachnophobia. Now they'll know a large spider can chase them for thirty years. wants to laugh but can't Oh the horror! It probably won't be comforting to some people, but I LOVE spiders . I even looked into getting a tarantula once. That's why I knew that one. Ana

Author:	Aragorn [ November 26th, 2011, 8:11 pm ]
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I like spiders, too. At least non-venomous ones.

Author:	J. Grace Pennington [ November 26th, 2011, 8:57 pm ]
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We did use to have a pet tarantula. I named her Anna.

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ November 26th, 2011, 9:16 pm ]
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This thread is crazy, and hilarious!

Author:	RedWing the Purple [ November 26th, 2011, 11:24 pm ]
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Ana wrote: Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Blink OH NO! That means we are twice as likely to die by the hands of the Weeping Angels. These are hilarious.

Author:	J. Grace Pennington [ November 27th, 2011, 11:04 am ]
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RedWing the Purple wrote: OH NO! That means we are twice as likely to die by the hands of the Weeping Angels. I knew someone was going to say this. And it turned out to be you.

Author:	Lady Elizabeth [ November 27th, 2011, 2:16 pm ]
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A spider living 30 years! Such a creepy thing shouldn't live that long!

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ November 27th, 2011, 5:23 pm ]
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Jonathan would disagree.

Author:	Calista Bethelle [ November 27th, 2011, 7:07 pm ]
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Airianna Valenshia wrote: Jonathan would disagree. Boys will be boys. This thread is extremely interesting! Thanks, Ana, for starting this!

Author:	Seabird Mimetes [ November 28th, 2011, 12:02 am ]
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I love this thead too! I'm too lazy though to go dig up some facts myself.

Author:	Aragorn [ November 28th, 2011, 1:37 am ]
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Here are some weird facts from one of my animal books, Animals Large and Small: The blue whale weighs 143 tons, which is as much as 4 brontosaurs, 20 elephants, 180 cows, or 1,600 men. A blue whale calf weighs 4,440 pounds at birth. The smallest deer, the lesser Malay mouse deer, is only eight inches tall and has long pointed canine teeth that make it look like a vampire. The bird with the largest wingspan is the wandering albatross, with a wingspan of 13 feet. The biggest amphibian is the giant salamander, which is around five feet long. The longest earthworm can be around 50 feet long. The giant African snail can be over one foot long.

Author:	Ana Mimetes [ November 28th, 2011, 2:42 am ]
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The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning. You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening! The can opener was invented 48 years after the can. Cherophobia is a fear of fun. One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone. The military used toilet paper to camouflage their tanks in Saudi Arabia, during the Desert Storm War. Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized! Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone. Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain. Pageant Models often smear Vaseline on their teeth so their lips won't stick when smiling. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys! If you're a normal human, you can guess someone's gender with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath. Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace. Hippo milk is pink. Women have a better sense of smell than men. that makes a lot of sence When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death. Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite. If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate!) On the left means she married or engaged, to be safe when in doubt put in on the left Elvis had a twin. 40% of women have hurled footwear at a man. now seriously women! shame on you shame!!! Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day. sooo sad None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.) Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't. When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles. Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurate weather forecasting! Coca Cola was originally green. Drivers kill more deer than hunters. 30% of Chinese adults live with their parents. If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you". ok I know you just tryed that One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed. let that be a lesson to all you youngsters who are afraid of snakes

Author:	BushMaid [ November 28th, 2011, 3:45 am ]
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Ana, those were awesome!

Author:	Skathi [ November 28th, 2011, 4:57 am ]
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Ana wrote: If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you". ok I know you just tryed that bursts into peals of laughter Yes, I did.

Author:	Bethany Faith [ November 28th, 2011, 7:35 am ]
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Jonathan Garner wrote: The longest earthworm can be around 50 feet long. That's a long worm...