Snails can have as many as 25,000 teeth, though their mouths are smaller than a pinhead! Shaped like ribbons, their teeth get worn out and are continuously replaced by developing teeth.
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India has the largest number of post offices in the world!
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The largest seed in the world is that of the Coco-de-Mer palm, found on Seychelles islands near east Africa. Also called the double coconut, it is a 40 to 50 cm long pointed ovoid and weighs upto 20 kg.
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Europe is the only continent without a desert since it is too far north for hot deserts and too far south for frozen deserts. Desert is an area which has less than 10 inches or 250mm of rainfall annually. Virtually the whole of Europe exceeds this.
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On Uranus, summer lasts for 21 years and so does winter! Another odd thing is that the lighted, summer half of Uranus is actually 4 to 6 degrees cooler than the dark, winter half! This is because cold objects lose heat more slowly than warm objects.
