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1. Some clouds are more than 10 miles tall.

2.Humans and slugs share more than half of their genes. (WHAT?!?!?)

3.Astronomers have discovered a star that is made of a 10-billion-trillion-trillion carat diamond. (I WANT IT!)

4.A storm on Neptune was as wide as the entire Earth.

5.There are volcanoes inside glaciers in Iceland. (Wouldent it melt the ice??)

6.A battery can be made out of a potato. ( it think we all new that one...)

7.Chewing gum can make your heart beat faster. (I fail to see how thats possible....)

8.The air around lightning strike is five times hotter than the Sun. (How come people can survive getting hit by lightning but we would die from being near it???)

9.A group of jelly fish is called a smack. (why i dont know....)

10.All of the mined gold in the world can fill two Olympic-size swimming pools. ( LETS SWIM!)

11. The average dream lasts about 20 minutes.

12. If the longest Blue whale could stand on its tail, it would be as tall as a ten story building. (dang.)

13. Texas is the only tate that allows residents to vote from space. (umm, why?)

14.The longest raw egg toss was 107 yards-Longer than a soccer field.

15.Americans eat seven billion hot dogs between Memorial Day and labor day. (No comment)

16. A British candy maker once created a nine-and-a-half- foot tall bilboard made entirely out of chocolate. (YUMMY! but why??)



I did not make this. Nationalgeographicskids.com