Cool Facts

I find these facts to be amusing and very kewl:

Strange But True Facts...

• Hummingbirds can fly backwards.
• American Indians used their bows to help them make fire.
• A cat's whiskers help it to prowl through the dark.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the famous music composer and pianist, could read music notes before he could read words.
• The albatross is the bird that has the longest wings. It measures 10 to 12 feet from one wing to the other.
• The world's largest and heaviest book was written on 14,300 stone tablets, which took 1,000 years to finish.
• Cats sweat through the pads of their feet.
• Animals have dreams like we do.
• Stories such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Puss in Boots" are actually French folktales.
• Television means "seeing at a distance."
• A flower named "Joe-pye weed" can grow up to six feet high!
• The Galapagos Islands, near the coast of Ecuador, was named for the big land tortoise who lived there. "Galapagos" is the Spanish name for tortoise.
• The Nile crocodile was worshipped in ancient Egypt.
• There is such thing as a camel-backed turtle. It's shell is a hump like a camel's.

Try this:

Think of a number. Add 3 to it. Multiply the answer you got by 2. Subtract 4. Divide by 2. Subtract your original number from it. The answer is 1!

Connect the nine stars below with only four straight lines without lifting your hand up (it is possible).

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