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RE: Tell me something I don't know
May 23, 2015 at 4:19 am
Here's one for my snake friend...don't eat me
The muscle that causes a rattlesnake to rattle fires 50 times a second for up to 3 hours or 520,000 rattles without stopping
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RE: Tell me something I don't know
May 23, 2015 at 6:34 am
Speaking of animals, the common European mole will typically consume about 50 pounds of earthworms and insect larvae per year. This is the equivalent of a 150 pound human eating 24000 pounds of food over the same period.
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RE: Tell me something I don't know
May 25, 2015 at 4:06 pm
Under laboratory conditions, earth worms can live more than 10 years.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition