Trivia, The More You Know

Mosquitoes Have 47 Teeth

Mosquitoes do not have teeth, they have 47 sharp daggers that run along each side of a long, piercing proboscis. With a weapon like that, who needs teeth? The proboscis is an elongated mouthpart that is used like a hypodermic needle to pierce the skin.

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The More You Know

  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
  • Benjamin Franklin was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
  • You spend about 10% of the time you're awake blinking.
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