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  • Frogs Levitate in a strong enough magnetic field
  • If you hold up a grain of sand the patch of sky it covers contains 10,000 Galaxies
  • Youve got one tonne of air pressing down on you, the same as a small car
  • Your car has more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon
  • You could hang 40KG From a gecko and it wouldn't fall of the ceiling
  • A bolt of lightning has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread

You could hang 40KG From a gecko and it wouldn't fall of the ceiling

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