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The hair that makes up a giraffes tail is about 10 times thicker than the average strand of human hair.

A female giraffe gives birth while standing up. The calf drops approximately 6 feet to the ground, but it is not hurt from the fall.

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.

A snail can sleep for three years.

When you blush, your stomach lining also reddens.

Jupiter's core is non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter, the core has become a metal. This metal is liquid metallic hydrogen.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Sneezes can travel up to 100mph

Many physicists believe wormholes (a "shortcut" through space and time) exist all around us but they are smaller than atoms.

The Reticulated Pythons are the world's longest snake and also the longest reptile.