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| | Facts | - False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - More people die from eating sharks then from being eaten by them. This is due to a poison in shark meat.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Sharks are capable of surviving on average six weeks without eating. The record observed in an aquarium is fifteen months by a species of shark known as the "swell shark."
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - Sharks are so powerful that their bite can generate a force of up to 18 tons per square inch.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The fins of the Spiny Dogfish Shark are sometimes used as sandpaper for wood products.
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Comment On This Amusing Fact - The Lemon shark grows about 24,000 new teeth a year. A new set of teeth grow approximately every 14 days.
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