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    New book by QI brains reveals the world's biggest pyramid ISN'T in Egypt | Daily Mail Online


    The animal with the most teeth isn’t a shark or a crocodile . . . it’s a slug. One species of umbrella slug, Umbraculum, can have up to 750,000 teeth. Slugs and snails need so many because instead of chewing their food, they use their teeth, which sit on a tongue-like ribbon, like a circular saw — buzzing over vegetation and filing it to pulp as they go.
    not sure about this though, always looked red to me.

    A robin’s breast is not red . . . look carefully: it’s orange. Robins got the name ‘redbreast’ in the 1400s. It was the best anyone could do, because English had no word for orange. The word orange (meaning the fruit) entered English around 1400 — but it wasn’t used as the name of a colour until the 1540s.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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