From 03d8759bd2ff008beed3645ebd42aba8d005e175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amrit Panesar Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:49:52 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add not facts, refactor snapple --- StarsiegeBot/Program.cs | 1 + StarsiegeBot/Raven/NotFacts.cs | 50 ++ StarsiegeBot/Raven/SnappleFacts.cs | 1036 +--------------------------- notfacts.json | 103 +++ snapple.json | 1002 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 1179 insertions(+), 1013 deletions(-) create mode 100644 StarsiegeBot/Raven/NotFacts.cs create mode 100644 notfacts.json create mode 100644 snapple.json diff --git a/StarsiegeBot/Program.cs b/StarsiegeBot/Program.cs index f24014d..20d778f 100644 --- a/StarsiegeBot/Program.cs +++ b/StarsiegeBot/Program.cs @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ namespace StarsiegeBot this.Commands.RegisterCommands(); this.Commands.RegisterCommands(); // Main Folder. Test Items. this.Commands.RegisterCommands(); + this.Commands.RegisterCommands(); this.Commands.RegisterCommands(); this.Commands.RegisterCommands(); // Main Folder. Test Items. diff --git a/StarsiegeBot/Raven/NotFacts.cs b/StarsiegeBot/Raven/NotFacts.cs new file mode 100644 index 0000000..733b9bc --- /dev/null +++ b/StarsiegeBot/Raven/NotFacts.cs @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +using System; +using System.Collections.Generic; +using System.IO; +using System.Threading.Tasks; +using DSharpPlus.CommandsNext; +using DSharpPlus.CommandsNext.Attributes; +using Newtonsoft.Json; + + +namespace StarsiegeBot +{ + class NotFacts : BaseCommandModule + { + private List notfacts; + + public NotFacts() + { + Console.WriteLine("NotFacts Command Loaded"); + string json = File.ReadAllText("notfacts.json"); + notfacts = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject>(json); + } + + [Command("notfact"), Description("Get a NotFact")] + public async Task Snapplefact(CommandContext ctx, [Description("[Optional] A NotFact ID")] int notFactID = 0) + { + await ctx.TriggerTypingAsync(); + + notFactID--; + try + { + await ctx.RespondAsync(notfacts[notFactID]); + return; + } + catch(Exception) + { + await ctx.RespondAsync(notfacts[Program.rnd.Next(0, notfacts.Count)]); + } + + // await ctx.RespondAsync("**Warning:** The Id's used here are arbitrary"); + } + + [Command("notfactcount"), Description("Get a count of the NotFacts")] + public async Task SnappleCount(CommandContext ctx) + { + await ctx.TriggerTypingAsync(); + await ctx.RespondAsync(notfacts.Count + " NotFacts in the NotFacts Bank"); + } + + } +} diff --git a/StarsiegeBot/Raven/SnappleFacts.cs b/StarsiegeBot/Raven/SnappleFacts.cs index 067d290..2bdf774 100644 --- a/StarsiegeBot/Raven/SnappleFacts.cs +++ b/StarsiegeBot/Raven/SnappleFacts.cs @@ -1,1041 +1,51 @@ using System; +using System.Collections.Generic; +using System.IO; using System.Threading.Tasks; using DSharpPlus.CommandsNext; using DSharpPlus.CommandsNext.Attributes; +using Newtonsoft.Json; namespace StarsiegeBot { class SnappleFacts : BaseCommandModule { - private readonly string[] facts; + private List facts; + + public SnappleFacts() + { + Console.WriteLine("Snapple Commands Loaded"); + string json = File.ReadAllText("snapple.json"); + facts = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject>(json); + } [Command("snapple"), Description("Get a Snapple \"Real Fact\".")] public async Task Snapplefact(CommandContext ctx, [Description("[Optional] A Snapple Fact ID")]int snapId = -1) { - if (snapId == -1) + await ctx.TriggerTypingAsync(); + + snapId--; + try { - await ctx.TriggerTypingAsync(); - await ctx.RespondAsync(facts[Program.rnd.Next(0, facts.Length)]); + await ctx.RespondAsync(facts[snapId]); + return; } - else + catch(Exception) { - await ctx.TriggerTypingAsync(); - await ctx.RespondAsync("**Warning:** The Id's used here, are not the same as Snapple's fact numbers! (We renumbered them when we imported them.)"); - // await ctx.RespondAsync(facts[snapId]); + await ctx.RespondAsync(facts[Program.rnd.Next(0, facts.Count)]); } + + //await ctx.RespondAsync("**Warning:** The Id's used here, are not the same as Snapple's fact numbers! (We renumbered them when we imported them.)"); + } [Command("snapplecount"), Description("Get a Snapple \"Real Fact\".")] public async Task SnappleCount(CommandContext ctx) { await ctx.TriggerTypingAsync(); - await ctx.RespondAsync(facts.Length + " facts in the Snapple \"Real Facts\" Bank"); + await ctx.RespondAsync(facts.Count + " facts in the Snapple \"Real Facts\" Bank"); } - public SnappleFacts() - { - Console.WriteLine("Snapple Commands Loaded"); - this.facts = new string[] { "Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.", - "Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.", - "Slugs have four noses.", - "Camels have three eyelids.", - "A honey bee can fly at 15mph.", - "A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.", - "A bee has five eyelids.", - "The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.", - "Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.", - "Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.", - "Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.", - "Cats have over 100 vocal cords.", - "Camel's milk does not curdle.", - "All porcupines float in water.", - "The world's termites outweigh the world's humans about 10 to 1.", - "A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.", - "A jellyfish is approximately 95% water.", - "Children tend to grow faster in the spring.", - "Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.", - "Peaches are members of the almond family.", - "Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.", - "The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.", - "The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.", - "A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.", - "On average a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.", - "Fish have eyelids.", - "Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!", - "If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.", - "A snail breathes through its foot.", - "Fish cough.", - "An ant's sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.", - "It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.", - "Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.", - "A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.", - "The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.", - "Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.", - "Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.", - "Giraffes have no vocal cords.", - "Cats can hear ultrasound.", - "Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.", - "Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.", - "There are 63,360 inches in a mile.", - "About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.", - "The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.", - "A human brain weighs about three pounds.", - "1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.", - "You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.", - "A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.", - "Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.", - "The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.", - "Pigs can get sunburn.", - "The life span of a taste bud is about ten days.", - "The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.", - "Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.", - "A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.", - "Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.", - "There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.", - "The longest one-syllable word is ''screeched.''", - "No word in the English language rhymes with month.", - "There is a town called ''Big Ugly'' in West Virginia.", - "The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.", - "You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.", - "No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.", - "Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.", - "There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.", - "About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.", - "Alaska has more caribou than people.", - "Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).", - "Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.", - "The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.", - "Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.", - "A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.", - "A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.", - "The average raindrop falls at seven mph.", - "Fish can drown.", - "A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.", - "Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.", - "Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.", - "The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.", - "A turkey can run at 20 mph.", - "When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.", - "You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.", - "A one-minute kiss burns about 26 calories.", - "You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.", - "You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.", - "Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.", - "Frogs never drink.", - "Only male turkeys gobble.", - "At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.", - "The largest fish is the whale shark – it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.", - "Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.", - "The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.", - "The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.", - "The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.", - "A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.", - "Beavers were once the size of bears.", - "Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.", - "Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.", - "A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.", - "A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.", - "Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.", - "Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.", - "Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.", - "A crocodile cannot move its tongue.", - "Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.", - "Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.", - "The city of Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.", - "Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.", - "Hawaii is the only state with one school district.", - "The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.", - "Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.", - "''Q'' is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.", - "Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.", - "Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.", - "The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.", - "Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.", - "The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.", - "Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.", - "The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.", - "The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895.", - "In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.", - "Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.", - "The first MTV video was ''Video Killed the Radio Star'' by the Buggles.", - "The first TV show to ever be put into reruns was ''The Lone Ranger.''", - "One alternate title that had been considered for NBC's hit ''Friends'' was ''Insomnia Café.''", - "The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.", - "The first penny had the motto ''Mind your own business.''", - "The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.", - "Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.", - "Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.", - "You'd have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.", - "One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.", - "The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.", - "In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.", - "The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.", - "The eye makes movements 50 times every second.", - "The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.", - "In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.", - "The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.", - "The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.", - "The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.", - "The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.", - "A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.", - "The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.", - "The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.", - "A male kangaroo is called a boomer.", - "A female kangaroo is called a flyer.", - "Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.", - "The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York.", - "Thailand means ''Land of the Free.''", - "Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.", - "Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.", - "The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.", - "You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.", - "Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.", - "If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.", - "The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.", - "The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).", - "The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.", - "Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.", - "Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the Sun.", - "Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.", - "Add up opposing sides of a dice cue and you'll always get seven.", - "The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.", - "Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.", - "Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.", - "Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.", - "A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.", - "An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.", - "Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.", - "The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.", - "America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.", - "There is a town in South Dakota named Tea.", - "The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.", - "Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.", - "The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.", - "There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.", - "The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.", - "Cows give more milk when they listen to music.", - "The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.", - "An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.", - "''Challenger Deep'' is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.", - "The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.", - "If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.", - "The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.", - "The first typewriter was called the ''literary piano.''", - "The ''silk'' of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.", - "Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.", - "The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was ''A patient waiter is no loser.''", - "Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.", - "There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.", - "The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.", - "The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.", - "Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.", - "There are more saunas than cars in Finland.", - "The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.", - "The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.", - "Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.", - "Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.", - "Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.", - "About 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.", - "Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.", - "One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.", - "Horseback riding can improve your posture.", - "Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry.", - "Dim lights reduce your appetite.", - "At birth a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.", - "Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples.", - "It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey.", - "Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.", - "China only has one time zone.", - "Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.", - "The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.", - "The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick.", - "If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.", - "A compass needle does not point directly north.", - "Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.", - "In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.", - "The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.", - "Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.", - "Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.", - "Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.", - "Heavier, not bigger lemons, produce more juice.", - "Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.", - "No only child has been a U.S. President.", - "Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.", - "In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.", - "David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.", - "The sail fish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.", - "The Library of Congress has over 600 miles of shelves.", - "Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell, because that is how they spelled it in the 18th century.", - "William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.", - "Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.", - "Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.", - "In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.", - "The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.", - "In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.", - "Ancient Egyptians believed the ''vein of love'' ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.", - "The word ''facetious'' features all the vowels in alphabetical order.", - "The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.", - "A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.", - "''O'' is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.", - "The Japanese word ''judo'' means ''the gentle way.''", - "No two lip impressions are the same.", - "It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.", - "Top-performing companies are called ''blue chips'' after the costliest chips in casinos.", - "The name for the space between your eyebrows is ''nasion.''", - "The word ''purple'' does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.", - "The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.", - "75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.", - "On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.", - "Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.", - "The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.", - "The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.", - "The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.", - "The area code in Cape Canaveral, Fl, is 321.", - "Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.", - "Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.", - "Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.", - "The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.", - "There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.", - "There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.", - "Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.", - "California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.", - "The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.", - "Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.", - "The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.", - "The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.", - "A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.", - "It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.", - "Cold water weighs less than hot water.", - "Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.", - "The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.", - "Bamboo can grow three feet in one day.", - "A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.", - "You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.", - "A baboon is a variety of lemon.", - "Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby.", - "Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.", - "''Arachibutlphobia'' is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.", - "Pearls dissolve in vinegar.", - "Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.", - "The center of some golf balls contain honey.", - "International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100-feet long.", - "In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.", - "On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.", - "Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.", - "A housefly hums in the key of F.", - "Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.", - "Thomas Edison coined the word ''hello'' and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.", - "''Way'' is the most frequently used noun in the English language.", - "The ''high five'' was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.", - "''Disco'' means ''I learn'' in Latin.", - "It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.", - "Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.", - "The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.", - "Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.", - "Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.", - "New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.", - "In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.", - "Three out of every six Americans live within fifty miles of where they were born.", - "The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named ''Botts dots.''", - "Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.", - "It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.", - "The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.", - "Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.", - "Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.", - "The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.", - "The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.", - "Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.", - "Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.", - "Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.", - "Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.", - "The T-rex’s closest living relative is the chicken.", - "Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.", - "Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.", - "A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.", - "Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.", - "Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.", - "U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.", - "The ZIP in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.", - "Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.", - "The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.", - "Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.", - "There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime.", - "There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.", - "One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.", - "A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.", - "In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.", - "Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.", - "Beavers have orange teeth.", - "The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.", - "Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.", - "Snails can sleep for up to three years.", - "The pupils in goats’ eyes are rectangular.", - "Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.", - "Bees’ wings beat about 11,400 times per minute.", - "The pound sign, or #, is called an octothorp.", - "The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.", - "If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon.", - "You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.", - "Sound travels quicker in water than in air.", - "A group of cats is called a clowder.", - "Human eyes have over two million working parts.", - "There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.", - "Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.", - "Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.", - "Lobsters can live up to 50 years.", - "The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.", - "Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.", - "A group of a dozen or more cows is called a ‘flink.’", - "Astronauts actually get taller when in space.", - "A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.", - "There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.", - "The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.", - "The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.", - "During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.", - "Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.", - "Camels have three eyelids.", - "454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.", - "Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.", - "A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.", - "Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.", - "Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.", - "Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your head and neck.", - "Smile more – every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.", - "New York taxi drivers collectively speak about 60 languages.", - "New York City is made up of 50 islands.", - "The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat.", - "Pigs were banished from Philadelphia's city streets in 1710.", - "About 40% of America's population lives within a one day drive to Philadelphia.", - "It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.", - "In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City.", - "The oldest living animal ever found was a 405 year-old clam, named Ming by researchers.", - "More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.", - "At 5 feet, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America.", - "A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.", - "Unlike your housecat, the Siberian tiger actually loves to swim!", - "A tiger’s night vision is six times better than a human’s.", - "More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.", - "The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.", - "The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.", - "Wildlife Forever has helped plant more than 132,000 trees in America since its founding in 1987.", - "Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.", - "Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.", - "A Pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.", - "The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.", - "Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.", - "The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.", - "The archer fish can spit water up to 7 feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.", - "The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench.", - "A male cricket's ear is located on the tibia of its leg.", - "Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.", - "The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.", - "Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.", - "Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than normal paper.", - "Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.", - "Steel is 100% recyclable.", - "Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.", - "An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.", - "A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.", - "In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.", - "There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.", - "Mangoes are the most-consumed fruit in the world.", - "Strawberries have an average of 200 seeds.", - "A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.", - "Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.", - "The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.", - "A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.", - "Only female mosquitoes bite.", - "A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.", - "A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.", - "The planet Saturn's density is lower than water; in fact, it would float if placed in water.", - "Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness.", - "The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.", - "There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.", - "The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.", - "All scorpions glow.", - "Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.", - "A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.", - "The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.", - "Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. 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It weighs less than a penny.", - "The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.", - "The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.", - "The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.", - "Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.", - "Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.", - "The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.", - "If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.", - "The side of a hammer is called a cheek.", - "In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.", - "In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone's cow.", - "Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.", - "A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.", - "The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.", - "A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.", - "At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.", - "The lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.", - "Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. 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They are not identified as such by road signs.", - "The aphid insect is born pregnant.", - "John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.", - "It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.", - "It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the United Kingdom.", - "Tennis was originally played with bare hands.", - "-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperatures as -40 degrees Celsius.", - "U.S. President John Tyler had 15 children, the last of which was born when he was 70 years old.", - "Dolphins are unable to smell.", - "Charlie Chaplin failed to make the finals of a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.", - "The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.", - "The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.", - "'K' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because 'S' was being used to denote a sacrifice.", - "A dimpled golf ball produces less drag and flies farther than a smooth golf ball.", - "When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.", - "President Chester A. Arthur owned 80 pairs of pants, which he changed several times per day.", - "Cows do not have upper front teeth.", - "Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was farther from the Sun than Pluto. This won't happen again until 2227.", - "When creating a mummy, Ancient Egyptians removed the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.", - "All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996, and 2008 U.S. presidential elections were left-handed.", - "In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.", - "The first American gold rush happened in North Carolina, not California.", - "To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.", - "Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.", - "The Chicago river flows backwards; the flow reversal project was completed in 1900.", - "The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.", - "Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.", - "Baby bunnies are called kittens.", - "A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.", - "Sea otters hold each other’s paws while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.", - "Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.", - "Male pups will intentionally let female pups “win” when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.", - "A cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.", - "A group of porcupines is called a prickle.", - "99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.", - "More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.", - "If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in outer space, they will bond together permanently.", - "Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.", - "A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.", - "Ancient Chinese warriors would show off to their enemies before battle, by juggling.", - "OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but its first known use was in 1917.", - "In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.", - "The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.", - "Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.", - "Norway once knighted a penguin.", - "The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.", - "It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.", - "Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.", - "One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.", - "Strawberries are grown in every state in the U.S. and every province in Canada.", - "The phrase, “You’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.", - "At latitude 60° south, it is possible to sail clear around the world without touching land.", - "Interstate 90 is the longest U.S. Interstate Highway with over 3,000 miles from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA.", - "DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.", - "Benjamin Franklin invented flippers.", - "Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.", - "Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.", - "Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.", - "The official taxonomic classification for llamas is Llama glama.", - "Remove all the space between its atoms and Earth would be the size of a baseball.", - "The soil on Mars is rust color because it's full of rust.", - "Sound travels up to 15 times faster through steel than air, at speeds up to 19,000 feet per second.", - "Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.", - "Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.", - "An octopus has three hearts.", - "Only 12 U.S. presidents have been elected to office for two terms and served those two terms.", - "Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office for four terms prior to the 22nd Amendment.", - "John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected president, and Ronald Reagan, at 73, the oldest.", - "James Buchanan is the only bachelor to be elected president.", - "Eight presidents have died while in office.", - "Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III, but took his stepfather’s last name when his mother remarried.", - "Prior to the 12th Amendment in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second highest number of electoral votes was vice president.", - "George Washington was a successful liquor distributor, making rye whiskey, apple brandy, and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery.", - "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams chipped off a piece of Shakespeare's chair as a souvenir when they visited his home in 1786.", - "George Washington started losing his permanent teeth in his 20s and had only one natural tooth by the time he was president.", - "George Washington had false teeth made from many different materials, including an elephant tusk and hippopotamus ivory.", - "George Washington protected his beloved horses from losing their teeth by making sure they were brushed regularly.", - "John Quincy Adams regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River.", - "Calvin Coolidge was so shy, he was nicknamed “Silent Cal.”", - "Calvin Coolidge loved to wear a cowboy hat and ride his mechanical horse.", - "President Herbert Hoover invented “Hooverball” (a cross between volleyball and tennis using a medicine ball), which he played with his cabinet members.", - "Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, many of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel.", - "Martin Van Buren's nickname was ''Old Kinderhook'' because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y.", - "James Buchanan bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.", - "Abraham Lincoln was only defeated once in about 300 wrestling matches, making it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with honors as ''Outstanding American.''", - "In his youth, President Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor.", - "Ulysses S. Grant smoked at least 20 cigars a day; citizens sent him at least 10,000 boxes in gratitude after winning the Battle of Shiloh.", - "Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.", - "Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House; however, he was so scared of getting electrocuted, he’d never touch the light switches himself.", - "William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good-luck charm.", - "Herbert Hoover's son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.", - "Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen.”", - "Bill Clinton's face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models.", - "In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.", - "Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office.", - "Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, was the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency.", - "James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.", - "There are only three requirements to become U.S. president: must be 35, a natural-born U.S. citizen, and have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years.", - "To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds.", - "Rutherford B. 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Eisenhower was the first Texas-born president.", - "Lyndon Johnson's family all had the initials LBJ.", - "Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get sick.", - "Gerald Ford worked as a fashion model during college and actually appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.", - "Dwight Eisenhower was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II.", - "Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.", - "Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed, believing it was good for his health.", - "A portion of Grover Cleveland's jaw was artificial, composed of vulcanized rubber.", - "Russia and the United States are less than three miles apart.", - "John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July in 1826.", - "Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido was the first ''First Dog'' to be photographed.", - "President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs: Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.", - "President Rutherford B. Hayes' cat Siam was the first Siamese cat in the U.S.", - "President John Quincy Adams' pet alligator lived in a White House bathroom.", - "First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote, ''If you love me...you must love my dog.''", - "John Adams' pets Satan and Juno were the first dogs to live in the White House.", - "Calvin Coolidge walked pet raccoon Rebecca on a leash around the White House.", - "More presidents have had pet birds than cats.", - "Thomas Jefferson's pet mockingbird was trained to eat out of his mouth.", - "Spotty Bush, an English Springer Spaniel, has been the only presidential pet to live at the White House during two different administrations.", - "Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride on a railroad train.", - "Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to wear pants in public.", - "First Lady Martha Washington was the first American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.", - "When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.", - "Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.", - "Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state, bordered by 8 states.", - "The cotton candy machine was invented in 1897, by a dentist.", - "You can’t hum while plugging your nose.", - "Elephants are afraid of bees.", - "They used to offer goat carriage rides in Central Park.", - "Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.", - "Monday is the only day of the week with an anagram: dynamo.", - "The only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere is on display in Fort Worth, TX.", - "Humans are 1-2 centimeters taller in the morning than at night.", - "Baby giraffes fall up to 6 feet to the ground when they are born.", - "It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.", - "The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.", - "A bald eagle nest can weigh up to two tons.", - "Worrying squirrels is not tolerated in Missouri.", - "Wombat droppings are cube-shaped.", - "Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.", - "Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg.", - "There are more nerve connections or ''synapses'' in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy.", - "There are more English words beginning with the letter ''S'' than any other letter.", - "There are more fake than real flamingos.", - "The word “bride” comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning “to cook.”", - "The word utopia – an ideal place – ironically comes from a Greek word meaning “no place.”", - "Los Angeles was originally founded as El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.", - "The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.", - "Nine-banded armadillos almost always give birth to four identical quadruplets.", - "Jellyfish don’t have brains.", - "Jellyfish can clone themselves.", - "The koala is the longest-sleeping animal, sleeping an average of 22 hours per day.", - "Walruses are true party animals; 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It weighs less than a penny.", +"The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.", +"The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.", +"The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.", +"Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.", +"Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.", +"The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.", +"If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.", +"The side of a hammer is called a cheek.", +"In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.", +"In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone's cow.", +"Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.", +"A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.", +"The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.", +"A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.", +"At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.", +"The lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.", +"Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother's maiden name was also Moon.", +"Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.", +"The highest denomination issued by the U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.", +"The White House was originally called the President's Palace. 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Grant smoked at least 20 cigars a day; citizens sent him at least 10,000 boxes in gratitude after winning the Battle of Shiloh.", +"Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.", +"Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House; however, he was so scared of getting electrocuted, he’d never touch the light switches himself.", +"William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good-luck charm.", +"Herbert Hoover's son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.", +"Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen.”", +"Bill Clinton's face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models.", +"In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.", +"Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office.", +"Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, was the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency.", +"James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.", +"There are only three requirements to become U.S. president: must be 35, a natural-born U.S. citizen, and have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years.", +"To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds.", +"Rutherford B. 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At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometers away.", +"Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s.", +"A housefly hums in the key of F.", +"Venus is the only planet in the solar system where the sun rises in the west.", +"The state animal of Tennessee is a raccoon.", +"If you were to stretch out a Slinky until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.", +"It's illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia because of its intelligence.", +"There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.", +"Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.", +"Fires spread faster uphill than downhill.", +"The Florida Everglades is the only place in the world where both alligators and crocodiles live together.", +"Newborns can't cry actual tears. This normally occurs between 3 weeks and 3 months of life.", +"If you could drive your car upward, you would be in space in less than an hour.", +"The sun is actually white, but the Earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.", +"The Earth rotates at a speed of 1,040 MPH.", +"Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.", +"The word ''aegilops'' is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.", +"Gorillas burp when they are happy.", +"Because of metal prices, since 2006 the U.S. Mint has had to spend more to make a penny than they are worth.", +"''Never odd or even'' spelled backward is still ''Never odd or even.''", +"In Alabama, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.", +"Alaska is the most northern, western, and eastern U.S. state.", +"In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.", +"A group of raccoons is called a gaze.", +"Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.", +"Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.", +"The vertical distance between the Earth's highest and lowest points is about 12 miles.", +"A flock of crows is known as a murder.", +"Dr. Seuss wrote ''Green Eggs and Ham'' to win a bet with his publisher who thought he could not complete a book with only 50 words.", +"Over 80% of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.", +"There are more people on Facebook today than there were on the Earth 200 years ago.", +"Mangoes have noses.", +"Mangoes can get sunburned.", +"Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.", +"The shortest professional baseball player was 3 feet, 7 inches tall.", +"The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.", +"The most valuable baseball card ever is worth about $2.8 million.", +"The paisley pattern is based on the mango.", +"In India, mango leaves are used to celebrate the birth of a boy.", +"A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.", +"When sprinting, professional cyclists produce enough power to power a home.", +"Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.", +"During a typical MLB season, approximately 160,000 baseballs are used.", +"The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.", +"The British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use.", +"The Great Lakes have more than 30,000 islands.", +"Mountain lions can whistle.", +"While rabbits have near-perfect 360-degree panoramic vision, their most critical blind spot is directly in front of their nose.", +"When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.", +"Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.", +"There have been 85 recorded instances of a pitcher striking out four batters in one inning.", +"3.7 million bags of ballpark peanuts are eaten every year at ballparks.", +"Shakespeare created the name Jessica for his play ''The Merchant of Venice.''", +"Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.", 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government tried to turn a cat into a spy.", +"Movie trailers used to come on at the end of movies, but no one stuck around to watch them.", +"MLB umpires often wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.", +"It is possible to record four outs in one-half inning of baseball.", +"There are nine different ways to reach first base.", +"During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be the size and weight of a baseball, since ''any young American man should be able to properly throw it.''", +"Philadelphia zookeeper Jim Murray sent baseball scores to telegraph offices by carrier pigeon every half inning in 1883.", +"From 1845 through 1867, home base was circular, made of iron, painted or enameled white, and 12 inches in diameter.", +"President Bill Clinton's first presidential pitch (on April 4, 1993) was the first ever from the pitcher's mound to the catcher's mitt.", +"Thunder is actually the sound caused by lightning.", +"Australia is wider than the moon.", +"85% of people only breathe out of one nostril at a time.", +"An albatross can sleep while it flies.", +"In a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday.", +"Bubble wrap was originally invented as a wallpaper in 1957.", +"There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.", +"Of the 193 members of the United Nations, Britain has invaded 171 of them.", +"The Apollo 11 guidance computer was no more powerful than today's pocket calculator.", +"“Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” is the technical name for brain freeze.", +"Earth is actually located inside the sun's atmosphere.", +"The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.", +"If you drilled a hole through the earth, it would take 42 minutes to fall through it.", +"The planet 55 Cancri e is made of diamonds and would be worth $26.9 nonillion.", +"France used the guillotine as recently as 1977.", +"Sloths move so slow that algae can grow on them.", +"Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.", +"Michelangelo hated painting and wrote a poem about it.", +"The dwarf lantern shark grows to be no bigger than a human hand.", +"''Tools of ignorance'' is a nickname for the equipment worn by catchers.", +"More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical MLB game.", +"Pitchers were prohibited from delivering the ball overhand for much of the 19th century.", +"Walks were scored as hits during the 1887 season.", +"A regulation baseball has 108 stitches.", +"A ''can of corn'' is a routine fly ball hit to an outfielder.", +"Baseball is played in more than 100 countries.", +"“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, both of whom had never been to a baseball game.", +"A baseball pitcher’s curveball can break up to 17 inches.", +"MLB baseballs are rubbed in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud, a unique mud found only near Palmyra, New Jersey.", +"The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 30,000 baseball cards as 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Burdick collection.", +"William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the U.S., began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910.", +"MLB National League (1876) is the oldest professional sports league that is still in existence.", +"The first modern-day World Series game was played in 1903.", +"The Mendoza Line is a .200 batting average.", +"There are 13 different pitches a pitcher can throw in baseball.", +"The first MLB All-Star Game was played in 1933.", +"A player was once ejected from an MLB game for sleeping during the game.", +"Baseball hits that bounced over the fence were considered home runs until the 1930s.", +"The most home runs ever recorded in an MLB season is 73.", +"The highest batting average ever recorded in an MLB season is .440.", +"MLB has not had a lefty play catcher since 1989.", +"The longest MLB game went 26 innings." +] \ No newline at end of file