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TIL an Elephant’s trunk has 40,000 muscles! A COMPLETE human body only has around 650 for comparison

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Kep9 TIL Only very tiny amounts of the chemical in trick noisemakers can be prepared at once, as even the weight of the crystals can cause them to self-detonate.
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