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    Fast Facts: April 19

    • Giraffes can clean their ears with their 21-inch tongues.

    • Pigs’ orgasms last for

     30 minutes.

    • Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds.

    • Hard-working adults sweat up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before it can be noticed.

    • A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

    •Hippos can open their mouths wide enough to fit a 4-foot child inside.

    • A “”jiffy”” is an actual unit of time — 1/100th of

    a second.

    • Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

    • Male emperor moths can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

    • A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years.

     

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