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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 Dalmation 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 - Mosquitos have 47 teeth
130 - Koala and humans are the only animals with unique
fingerprints
131 - Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts
seawater to fresh water
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 who was
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 sensetive 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 every day for 30 days,
you would have $5, 368, 709
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 |
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