_______________________________________________#1 A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.#2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.#3 Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water.#4 Slugs have 4 noses.#5 Camels have 3 eyelids.#6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph.#7 A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day.#8 A bee has 5 eyes.#9 The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.#10 Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.#11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp.#12 Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward.#13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords.#14 Camel's milk does not curdle.#15 All porcupines float in water.#16 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.#17 A hummingbird weighs less then a penny.#18 A jellyfish is 95% water.#19 Children grow faster in the spring.#20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.#21 Almonds are part of the peach family.#22 Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.#23 The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monument.#24 The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.#25 The only food that does not spoil is honey.#26 The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.#27 A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber.#28 Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.#29 On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.#30 Fish have eyelids.#31 The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping.#32 There is one million ants to every human in the world.#33 Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music.#34 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.#35 Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day.#36 A duck's quack doesn't echo.#37 A snail breathes through its foot.#38 Fish cough.#39 An ant's smell is stronger then a dog's.#40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.#41 Shrimp can only swim backward.#42 Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.#43 A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.#44 The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.#45 Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.#46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump.#47 Giraffes have no vocal chords.#48 Cats can hear ultrasound.#49 despite its hump...camels has a straight spine.#50 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.#51 There is 63,360 inches in a mile.#52 11% of people in the world are left-handed.#53 The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime.#54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.#55 A human brain weighs about 3lbs.#56 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.#57 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.#58 A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100mph.#59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.#60 The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.#61 Pigs get sunburn.#62 The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days.#63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.#64 Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges.#65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.#66 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.#67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo.#68 The longest one syllable word is "screeched".#69 No word in the English language rhymes with month.#70 A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second.#71 There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia.#72 The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use.#73 The average person spends 2 weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change .#74 You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world.#75 The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year.#76 The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime.#77 No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times.#78 Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US.#79 There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.#80 About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet.#81 Alaska has more caribou then people.#82 August has the highest percent of births.#83 Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).#84 Oysters can change genders back and forth.#85 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.#86 Until the 19th century solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.#87 A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.#88 A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid.#89 The average American walks 18,000 steps a day.#90 The average raindrop falls at 7mph.#91 There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.#92 Fish can drown.#93 A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet.#94 Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.#95 Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs.#96 The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.#97 A turkey can run at 20mph.#98 When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less.#99 You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum.#100 In a year, the average person walks 4 miles making their bed.#101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time.#102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.#103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling.#104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record.#105 You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement.#106 You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level.#107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV.#108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories.#109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.#110 Frogs never drink.#111 Only male turkeys gobble.#112 At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.#113 The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43 mph.#114 The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old.#115 Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.#116 The largest fish is the whale shark - It can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons.#117 The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.#118 Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.#119 The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.#120 The only continent without native reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.#121 The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.#122 A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.#123 Beavers were once the size of bears.#124 Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.#125 Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.#126 A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.#127 A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.#128 Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk.#129 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. (repeat of #50)#130 Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.#131 Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to freshwater.#132 A crocodile cannot move its tongue.#133 Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.#134 An ant can lift 50 times its own weight.#135 A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.#136 Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.#137 The city of Los Angeles has three times more automobiles than people.#138 Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.#139 Hawaii is the only state with one school district.#140 Holland is the only country with a national dog.#141 The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.#142 Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.#143 "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.#144 Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.#145 Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.#146 The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.#147 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.#148 The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.#149 Theodore Roosevelt was the only president blind in one eye.#150 The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.#151 The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963.#152 In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph.#153 The speed limit in NYC was 8 mph in 1895.#154 Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.#155 In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.#156 Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.#157 The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946.#158 The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles.#159 The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger".#160 One alternative title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe".#161 The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo".#162 The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.#163 The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business".#164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.#165 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise.#166 Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.#167 You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound.#168 One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.#169 The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.#170 In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.#171 The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.#172 The eye makes movements 50 times every second.#173 Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.#174 The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.#175 In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.#176 The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.#177 The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.#178 The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.#179 The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886.#180 The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.#181 The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899 .#182 A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.#183 The Capitol building in Washington DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.#184 The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.#185 A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.#186 A female kangaroo is called a flyer.#187 There are over 61,000 pizzerias in the U.S.#188 Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.#189 The Sahara Desert stretches father than the distance from California to New York.#190 Thailand means "Land of the Free".#191 Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.#192 Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every ten hours.#193 The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.#194 You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.#195 Eleven of the fifty states are named after and actual person.#196 If you doubled one penny enery day for 30 days, you would have $5, 368, 709. 12.#197 The first person crossed Niagra Falls by tightrope in 1859.#198 The US is the largest country names after an actual person (Amerigo Vespucci).#199 The largest cheesecake ever-made weighed 57,508 lbs.#200 The first country to use postcards was Austria.#201 The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.#202 The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is three feet wide.#203 Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.#204 A stamp shaped like a banana was once issued in the country of Tonga.#205 For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.#206 Over 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.#207 Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.#208 Add up opposing sides of a dice cube and you'll always get seven.#209 The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.#210 1.3 billion pounds of peanuts are produced in Georgia each year.#211 The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.#212 Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.#213 The largest ball of twine in the US weighs over 17,000 pounds.#214 Giraffes can link their own eyes.#215 Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.#216 TV dinners originated in the Arctic.#217 Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.#218 A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.#219 An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.#220 Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.#221 The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.#222 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.#223 The Basenji is the only type of dog that does not bark.#224 America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal froma a mine to boats below.#225 There are towns named Sandwich in Illinois and Massachusetts.#226 13 percent of the world's tea comes from Kenya.#227 'Tsialogy' is anything written about tea.#228 There is a town in South Dakota named 'Tea'.#229 The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.#230 Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.#231 Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.#232 The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.#233 There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.#234 Great Falls, Montana, is the windiest city in the U.S.#235 The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.#236 Cows give more milk when they listen to music.#237 The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.#238 An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.#239 Besides humans, elephants are the only animals that can be taught to stand on their head.#240 "Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.#241 The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.#242 The nickname of President Hayes's wife was "Lemonade Lucy".#243 If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.#244 The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.#245 The first typewriter was called the "literary piano".#246 The "silk" of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.#247 Britain was the first country to register a patent on polyester.#248 Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.#249 The first public message to be transmitted via Morse Code waws "A patient waiter is no loser".#250 Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.#251 There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.#252 There is a town in Alaska called Chicken.#253 The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.#254 The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.#255 Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.#256 There are more saunas than cars in Finland.#257 The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.#258 Lemon wood is carved into chess pieces.#259 The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.#260 Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.#261 Playing in a marching band is considered moderate exercise.#262 The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to stay awake than caffeine.#263 Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.#264 Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.#265 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.#266 Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that doesn't have a Main Street.#267 Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.#268 One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.#269 Horseback riding can improve your posture.#270 Colors like red, yellow, and orange make you hungry.#271 Dim lights reduce your appetite.#272 At birth, a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.#273 Each year, the average American eats about 15 lbs. of apples.#274 All lemons are harvested by hand.#275 It took the first man to walk around the world 4 years, 3 months, and 6 days to complete his journey.#276 Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.#277 Today's "modern" wrestling moves have been seen in tomb drawings from ancient Egypt.#278 China only has one time zone.#279 Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.#280 The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.#281 The original name of Nashville, Tennessee, was Big Salt Lick.#282 If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.#283 A compass needle does not point directly north.#284 Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.#285 In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.#286 The height of the Eiffle Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.#287 Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.#288 Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.#289 In 1908, the first lollipop-making machine started in New Haven, CT.#290 One out of every eight residents in the U.S. lives in California.#291 Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.#292 Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.#293 Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.#294 No only child has been a U.S. President.#295 Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.#296 In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.#297 David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.#298 The sailfish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.#299 The Library of Congress has 600 miles of shelves.#300 Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.#301 William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.#302 Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.#303 Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.#304 In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.#305 The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.#306 In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.#307 All dog breeds except chow-chows have black lips to prevent them from getting sunburned.#308 Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.#309 Ancient Egyptians believed that the "vein of love" ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.#310 The word "facetious" features all the vowels in alphatbetical order.#311 The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.#312 A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.#313 "O" is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.#314 The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way".#315 No two lip impressions are the same.#316 It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.#317 Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.#318 Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in casinos .#319 The name for the space between your eyebrows is "nasion."#320 There is a town called Jackpot in Nevada.#321 The word “purple” does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.#322 In the U.S., there are about 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents.#323 The Lemon-Yellow Tree Frog is only active in the darkness of night.#324 The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.#325 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.#326 On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.#327 Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.#328 The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown -- one for each of the continents.#329 The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.#330 The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.#331 The area code in Cape Canaveral, FL, is 321.#332 Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.#333 Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.#334 Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.#335 Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.#336 The last letter to be added to our alphabet was "J".#337 Farmington, Maine celebrates Chester Greenwood Day to honor the inventor of earmuffs.#338 Of all the trees in Australia, 75% are eucalyptus.#339 There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.#340 There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.#341 Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.#342 California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.#343 The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.#344 Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.#345 The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.#346 The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.#347 A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.#348 It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.#349 Most cats don't like lemonade.#350 The watersheds that supply water to New York City are roughly the size of Delaware.#351 Cold water weighs less than hot water.#352 Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.#353 The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.#354 Bamboo can grow 3 feet in one day.#355 A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.#356 You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.#357 A baboon is a variety of lemon.#358 Butterflies were formerly known by the name "flutterby".#359 A teaspoon contains 120 drops of water.#360 Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.#361 The pineapple is a very big berry.#362 "Arachibutiphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.#363 Pearls dissolve in vinegar.#364 Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.#365 The oil in cashews helps prevent tooth decay.#366 The center of some golf balls contain honey.#367 International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100 feet long.#368 In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.#369 On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.#370 Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.#371 Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.#372 A housefly hums in the key of F.#373 Endacorp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.#374 Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.#375 "Way" is the most frequently used noun in the English language.#376 The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.#377 "Disco" means "I learn" in Latin.#378 It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.#379 The "lemon yellow" crayon was introduced in 1949 and retired in 1990.#380 It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.#381 Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.#382 The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.#383 Mt. Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.#384 Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.#385 Lemons are more acidic than vinegar.#386 New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.#387 A banana is a giant herb.#388 The first person in the U.S. arrested for speeding was a NYC cab driver.#389 In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.#390 Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.#391 A sea lemon is a mollusk that feeds on sponges.#392 Three out of every six Americans live within 50 miles of where they were born.#393 The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named "Botts dots.#394 Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.#395 It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.#396 The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.#397 Bamboo can grow over three feet per day.#398 Hippos can open their mouth 180 degrees.#399 Manhattan was the first capital of the United States.#400 About 80 women go into labor on NYC subways every year.#401 The coldest city in the U.S. is International Falls, Minnesota.#402 Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.#403 The largest hailstone ever recorded in the U.S. was 17.5 inches around.#404 The Statue of Liberty's nose is four feet six inches long.#405 The East Antarctica Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.#406 The deepest place in the ocean is about 7 miles deep.#407 The largest dog litter was 23 puppies.#408 Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.#409 Approximately 16'500 people in the U.S. go by the last name Lemon.#410 Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.#411 Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.#412 Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.#413 The T-rex's closest living relative is the chicken.#414 Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.#415 The most popular pet name in the United States is 'Max'.#416 Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.#417 All polar bears are left-handed.#418 The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.#419 A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.#420#421 Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.#422 Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members or the rose family.#423 U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper - it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.#424 The 'ZIP' in zip code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.#425 Kangaroos can't walk backwards.#426 The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.#427 Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.#428 There are 118 ridges on the edge of the United States dime.#429 There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.#430 One acre of peanuts will make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.#431 A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.#432 Antarctica holds 90% of the world's fresh water.#433 The state of Tennessee was originally called Franklin.#434 In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.#435 Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.#436 Beavers have orange teeth.#437 The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.#438 Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.#439 Snails can sleep for up to three years.#440 The pupils in goats' eyes are rectangular.#441 Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.#442 "Bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute".#443 The pound sign, or #, is called an 'octothorp'.#444 The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.#445 If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a "blue" moon.#446 You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.#447 A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.#448 The sun evaporates about a trillion tons of water a day.#449 Sound travels quicker in water than in air.#450 A group of cats is called a 'clowder'.#451 Human eyes have over two million working parts.#452 There are approximately 9'000 taste buds on your tongue.#453 Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.#454 Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.#455 Lobsters can live up to 50 years.#456 About 85% of the world's population is right-handed.#457 The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.#458 Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.#459#460 Astronauts actually get taller when in space.#461 A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.#462 The King Ranch in Kingsville Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and over 23 countries.#463 The dot over the 'i' is called a 'tittle'.#464 Cows do not have upper front teeth.#465 The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.#466 During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.#467 Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.#468#469 454 U.S. dollar bills weight exactly one pound.#470 Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.#471 The most common name for a pet goldfish is 'Jaws'.#472 A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.#473 Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.#474 To temporarily revive your ballpoint pen, dip the tip into hot water for a few seconds.#475 Wrapping rubber bands around the ends of hangers can prevent clothes from slipping off.#476 Replacing your car's air filter can improve gas mileage by 10 percent.#477 A chalkboard eraser is one of the best ways to wipe a foggy windshield.#478 Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.#479 Knots come out easier if you sprinkle talcum powder on them.#480 You can tell which day a loaf of bread was baked by the color of its plastic twist tag.#481 Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your neck and head.#482 Dieting by not eating will actually make your body start conserving calories as fat.#483 every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.#484 Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50%.#485 Refrigerating apple can help them last up to 10 times longer than those left at room temperature#486 While chopping onions, hold a piece of bread between your lips to keep your eyes from watering.#487 Place an apple in the bag with your potatoes to keep them from budding.#488 Place a slice of bread in the storage container to keep cookies soft when storing.#489 To keep an ice cream cone from dripping, stuff a miniature marshmallow into the bottom of the cone.#490 To take lumps out of a bag of sugar, place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours.#491#492 To remove crayon marks from walls, use a hairdryer to heat the wax.#493 To make a zipper slide up and down more smoothly, rub a bar of soap over the teeth.#494 Wipe the leaves of your plants with the soft inside of a banana skin to bring up the shine and remove dust.#495#496 To clean paint off your hands, use olive oil - it softens the paint and makes it easy to remove.#497 To fix a button about to fall off, dab a little clear nail polish over the threads holding it on.#498#499#500#501#502#503#504#505#506#507#508#509#510#511#512#513#514#515#516#517#518#519#520#521#522#523#524#525#526#527#528#529#530#531#532#533#534#535#536#537#538#539#540#541#542#543#544#545#546#547#548#549#550#551#552#553#554#555#556#557#558#559#560#561#562#563#564#565#566#567#568#569#570#571#572#573#574#575#576#577#578#579#580#581#582#583#584#585#586#587#588#589#590#591#592#593#594#595#596#597#598#599#600#601#602#603#604#605#606#607#608#609#610#611#612#613#614#615#616#617#618#619#620#621#622#623#624#625#626#627#628#629#630#631#632#633#634#635#636#637#638#639#640#641#642#643#644#645#646#647#648#649#650#651 Forty-six percent of leisure visitors to downtown New York City come from outside the United States.#652#653#654 New York taxi drivers collectively speak 60 languages.#655#656#657#658 New York City is made up of 50 islands.#659#660 The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat.#661 Pigs were banished from Philadelphia's city streets in 1710.#662 Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States.#663 Forty percent of America's population lives within a one-day drive to Philadelphia.#664 It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.#665 One in six doctors in America was trained in Philadelphia.#666#667 The shoreline at Wildwood grows almost 100 feet per year.#668 Cape May is the oldest seashore resort in America.#669 In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City.#670 Long Beach Island was once frequented by pirates.#671 There is a town called "Jersey Shore" in Pennsylvania.#672 The Wildwood Boardwalk extends nearly two miles and has more than 70,000 wooden planks.#673 The first Ferris wheel was built in Atlantic City in 1869.(New replacement fact # 673 The average turtle can’t reproduce until its 25 years old.)#674 Snapple helped fund the creation of more than 138 new PSAL Teams.(New replacement fact # # 674 The oldest living animal ever found was a 405 year old clam, named Ming by researchers.)#675 Snapple helped fund the creation of the C.H.A.M.P.S. Sports & Fitness Program, benefiting more than 15,000 NYC Public School Middle Students.(New replacement fact # 675 More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.)# 676 At 5 feet, The whooping crane is The tallest bird in North America.# 677 A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.# 678 unlike your housecat, The Siberian tiger actually loves to swim.# 679 A tiger’s night vision is six times better than a human’s.# 680 More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.# 681 The jaguar, the largest cat in The Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern US.# 682 The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.# 683 Wildlife Forever has helped plant 132,420 trees in America since its founding in 1987.# 684 Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.# 685 Dogs can make about 10 sounds, cats make about 100.# 686 A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.# 687 The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.# 688 Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.# 689 The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.# 690 A chameleon shoots out its tongue to catch prey at speeds faster than a fighter jet.# 691 The archer fish can spit water up to 7 feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.# 692 The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench.# 693 A male cricket's ear is located on The tibia of its leg.# 694 Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.# 695 The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.# 696 with an average life expectancy of 81.2 years, the people of Okinawa, Japan live the longest.# 697 Pilates stretches your muscles, improving your posture and helping you appear taller.# 698 Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.# 699 after working out, it takes 5 hours for your body temperature to return to normal.# 700 turning the faucet off while brushing your teeth can save up to 5 gallons of water.# 701 it takes more water to fill a bathtub than it does to enjoy an average length shower.# 702 on average, a laptop uses half as much energy as a desktop computer.# 703 The average bar of soap lasts twice as long as a bottle of body wash.# 704 Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than normal paper.# 705 every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.# 706 Steel is 100% recyclable.# 707 most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.# 708 manufacturing recycled goods uses up to 95% less energy than using raw materials.# 709 Hybrid cars produce up to 75% less pollution than other vehicles.# 710 A tank less water heater uses half the energy of a standard model.# 711 Baking soda makes a great scouring cleanser, and it's naturally chemical free.# 712 100% recyclable, old newspapers are great for washing windows.# 713 an egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.# 714 When thirsty, a camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.# 715 In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.# 716 there is a museum of Strawberries in Belgium.# 717 The mango is the most consumed fruit in the world.# 718 on average a strawberry has 200 seeds on it.# 719 A strawberry is not an actual berry but a banana is.# 720 Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.# 721 The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.# 722 The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.# 723 The optimum depth of water in a birdbath is two and a half inches.# 724 A Pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.# 725 only female Mosquitoes bite.# 726 A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.# 727 A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.# 728 The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. It would float if placed in water.# 729 Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness.# 730 The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.# 731 there are over 2,000 different species of cacti.# 732 The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus rex.# 733 all scorpions glow.# 734 Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.# 735 A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.# 736 More babies are born at night than during the day.# 737 The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.# 738 There are more species of fish in The Amazon River than in The Atlantic Ocean.# 739 You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.# 740 Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of The Cashew family.# 741 Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.# 742 Over half of The World's Geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.# 743 A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.# 744 Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.# 745 Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all The same sex.# 746 The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.# 747: Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.# 748 A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.# 749 The average housefly lives for one month.# 750 The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.# 751 Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.# 752 A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.# 753 A group of goats is called a trip.# 754 An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.# 755 There are more chickens than people in the world.# 756 Penguins can jump 6 feet.# 757 There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.# 758 The only lizard that has a voice is The Gecko.# 759 A rhinoceros horn is made out of compacted hair.# 760 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.# 761 Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.# 762 A duck has three eyelids.# 763 Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.# 764 The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.# 765 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.# 766 The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.# 767 Honeybees have hair on their eyes.# 768 Most elephants weigh less than The tongue of a blue whale.# 769 If a sheep and a goat mate The offspring is called a Geep.# 770 Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.# 771 Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens.# 772 Male moose shed their antlers every winter and grow a new pair the next year.# 773 Mountain goats aren't actually goats. They are antelopes.# 774 Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.# 775 Bees are born fully grown.""# 776, ferret comes from The Latin word for little thief.# 777 Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords one for purring and one for meowing.# 778 Some bears build nests in trees for sunbathing and resting.# 779 A group of jellyfish is called a smack.# 780 The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is called The philtrum.# 781 women blink twice as much as men.# 782 The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.# 783 Men get hiccups more than women.# 784 The human brain is about 80% water.# 785 The fastest growing nail is on The middle finger.# 786 The brain operates on The same amount of power as a 10watt light bulb.# 787 like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is completely different.# 788: The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.# 789 The average woman is 5 inches shorter than The average man.# 790 Your big toe only has 2 bones and The rest have 3.# 791 The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.# 792 The state of Florida is bigger than England.# 793 Broadway is one of the longest streets in the world. It is 150 miles long.# 794 "Mount Whitney, The highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskien Point, The lowest point in The United States, are less than eighty miles apart.# 795 Hawaii is moving toward Japan at The rate of almost 4 inches per year.# 796: India has more English speakers than The United States.# 797 In Youngstown Ohio, it is against The law to run out of gas.# 798 Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.# 799 The official color of California's Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.# 800 Most lipstick contains fish scales# 807 Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump.# 801 It is not possible to tickle yourself.# 802 Every state except Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii is home to at least one species of venomous snake.# 803 Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.# 804 There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.# 805 India has a Bill of Rights for cows.# 806 In Albania, nodding your head means no and shaking your head means yes.# 807 Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.# 808 Some violins contain 70 separate pieces of wood.# 809 French author Michel Thaler published a 233page novel which has no verbs.# 810 Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.# 811 The dots on a domino are called pips.# 812 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.# 813 The number sign # is called an octothorpe.(repeat of #443 different spelling)# 814 Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900's.# 815 The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in The Thai language.# 816 In Ancient Greece throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.# 817 Karate originated in India.# 818 The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.# 819 Children grow faster during springtime.# 820 Relative to size, the tongue is The strongest muscle in The human body.# 821 It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.# 822 The only joint less bone in The body is in your throat.# 823 Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.# 824 On average a man spends about five months of his life shaving.# 825 Our eyes are always The same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.# 826 In The average lifetime, a person will walk The equivalent of 5 times around The equator.# 827 Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.# 828 Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.# 829 Women's hearts beat faster than men's hearts.# 830 The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.# 831 Sixyearolds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.# 832 Brain waves can power an electric train.# 833 Children have more taste buds than adults.# 834 Right handed people tend to chew food on The right side and lefties chew on The left.# 835 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.(repeat of #107)# 836 Pomology is the study of fruit.# 837 The most widely eaten fruit in America is The banana.# 838 Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them.# 839 A cucumber consists of 96% water.# 840 The only food that does not spoil is honey.(repeat of #25)# 841 The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla.# 842 Vanilla is used to make chocolate.# 843 Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90cm in a day.(repeat of #354 different wording)# 844 One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.# 845 A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.# 846 An average of three billion cups of tea are consumed daily worldwide.# 847 Until The nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.(repeat of #86)# 848 Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.# 849 New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.# 850 Hawaii is further south than Florida.# 851 Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.# 852 Clearwater, Florida has the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita in The US.# 853 Hawaii has its own time zone.# 854 Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.(repeat of #138)# 855 Oregon has more ghost towns than any other U.S. city.# 856 The world's largest silver nugget (1840 lbs) was found in 1894 near Aspen, CO.# 857 Louisiana is home to over 80% of the world's crayfish.# 858 New Jersey is home to the world's first drivein movie theater.# 859 George Washington took the oath of office in New York City in 1789.# 860 Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.# 861 South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in The U.S.# 862 The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee, WI in 1867.# 863 The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, "reckie", which was short for recruit.# 864 Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100lbs.# 865 Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.# 866 Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6'4. James Madison was the shortest at 5'4.# 867 Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.# 868 Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.# 869 Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.# 870 President Warren G. Harding once lost White House china in a poker game.# 871 Ulysses Simpson Grant once got a $20.00 fine for speeding on his horse.# 872 President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in The White House bathtub.# 873 President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named Washington Post.# 874 Harry S. Truman's middle name is S.# 875 Before Thomas Jefferson took office people bowed to the president, rather than shaking his hand.# 876 The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42."# 877 People don't sneeze when they are asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are also resting.# 878 Only male fireflies can fly.# 879 Most Koala bears sleep about 22 hours a day.# 880 The Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.# 881 A baby caribou can outrun its mother at 3 days old.# 882 In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.# 883 Butterflies taste with their hind feet.(partial repeat of #416)# 884 a strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.# 885 Vultures can fly for six hours without flapping their wings.# 886 The bumblebee bat is the smallest mammal on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.(repeat of #418)# 887: The "Valley of Square Trees" in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks# 888 In some cultures' telling of Snow White, The Dwarfs are thieves.# 889 The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.# 890 The number 1 or the word One appears on The dollar bill 16 times.# 891 Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.# 892 The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.# 893 Jack Lanterns were originally made out of turnips.# 894 Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.# 895 If you shake a can of mixed nuts, The larger nuts will rise to The top.# 896 2nd Street is the most common street name in The United States; First Street is the 6th most common.# 897 The Mayflower only held 102 People.# 898 The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.# 899 The plastic things on The end of shoelaces are called aglets.# 900 Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.# 901 The quartz crystal in ur wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.# 902: Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.# 903 The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.# 904 If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.# 905 The side of a hammer is called a cheek.# 906 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.# 907 Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.# 908 In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either "unbathed" or "poorly dressed".# 909 In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone's cow.# 910 Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.# 911 A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.# 912 Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.# 913 The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.# 914 A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.# 915 At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at The speed of a rifle bullet.# 916 The scientific term for a sneezing is sternutation.# 917 The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write roughly 50,000 English words.# 918 The first lollipop was invented in Connecticut.# 919 The Lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in The early 1900s, Lolly-Pop.# 920 Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother's maiden name was also Moon.# 921: If you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2749 years to spend it all.# 922 Maine is the only state with a one syllable name.# 923 In Germany The shhh sound means hurry up.# 924 The highest denomination issued by The U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.# 925 The White House was originally called The President's Palace, it became the White House in 1901.# 926 George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.# 927 John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.# 928 New York City has 722 miles of subway track.