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Epic Proportion Trivia


      Colin Bullock                          Rabbits have twice as many taste buds
                                             as humans.
      A swordfish can swim at about the
      same speed as a cheetah can run.       The human body is roughly 60% water.

      An ostrich egg weighs less than 2% of   More than 95% of the universe is                       HEATING & PLUMBING ENGINEERS
      an adult’s weight.                     invisible.
      Hummingbirds can fly 385 body          The sun is 99.8% of all the mass in our                       Aga/Rayburn Approved
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      only fly 150 body lengths per second.  80% of all living things on earth are

      Some frogs can leap more than 20       insects.                                         £100 off New Boiler Installations or £15 off a service with this advert
      times their body length.               Humans and slugs share just over 50%

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      around the earth 11 times.             with water.

      A sea turtle can weigh as much as a    From fingertip to fingertip, orangutans’
      water buffalo.                         outstretched arms are longer than their
      Dinosaurs lived on earth 800 times     bodies                                               MOWER PLANT SERVICES LTD.
      longer than humans have existed.


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      Flamingos have the longest legs,       4,5 and so on up one side of the street before                               a and visit us.
                                             continuing consecutively on the other side of
      relative to body size, of all birds.   the street, working their way back to the house
                                             opposite number one.
      One year on Neptune lasts about 165
      earth years.                           If house number 12 is opposite house number
                                             29, how many houses are there in total on both
      Some giant jellyfish have tentacles that   sides of the street?
      extend 1/3 the length of a football field.
                                             (Answers on the back page)                       MAIN AGENTS
      Snow leopards can leap as far as 45 feet                                                  FOR:
      – the length of a humpback whale.
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