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    Fast Facts: Jan. 27

    • A cockroach can live for nine days after its head has been cut off.

    • The world’s largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to five feet in length.

    • The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

    • A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.

    • In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.

    • Pinocchio is Italian for “”pine head.””

    • Since 1313, it is illegal for an Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armor.

    • In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.

    • Babies are born with 300 bones that eventually fuse to form the 206 bones that adults have.

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