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"Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.",
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"Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.",
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"Slugs have four noses.",
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"Camels have three eyelids.",
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"A honey bee can fly at 15mph.",
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"A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.",
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"A bee has five eyelids.",
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"The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.",
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"Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.",
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"Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.",
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"Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.",
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"Cats have over 100 vocal cords.",
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"Camel's milk does not curdle.",
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"All porcupines float in water.",
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"The world's termites outweigh the world's humans about 10 to 1.",
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"A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.",
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"A jellyfish is approximately 95% water.",
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"Children tend to grow faster in the spring.",
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"Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.",
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"Peaches are members of the almond family.",
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"Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.",
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"The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.",
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"The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.",
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"A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.",
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"On average a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.",
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"Fish have eyelids.",
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"Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!",
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"If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.",
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"A snail breathes through its foot.",
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"Fish cough.",
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"An ant's sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.",
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"It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.",
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"Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.",
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"A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.",
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"The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.",
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"Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.",
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"Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.",
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"Giraffes have no vocal cords.",
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"Cats can hear ultrasound.",
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"Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.",
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"Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.",
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"There are 63,360 inches in a mile.",
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"About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.",
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"The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.",
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"A human brain weighs about three pounds.",
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"1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.",
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"You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.",
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"A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.",
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"Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.",
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"The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.",
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"Pigs can get sunburn.",
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"The life span of a taste bud is about ten days.",
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"The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.",
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"Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.",
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"A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.",
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"Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.",
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"There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.",
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"The longest one-syllable word is ''screeched.''",
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"No word in the English language rhymes with month.",
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"There is a town called ''Big Ugly'' in West Virginia.",
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"The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.",
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"You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.",
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"No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.",
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"Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.",
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"There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.",
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"About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.",
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"Alaska has more caribou than people.",
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"Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).",
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"Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.",
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"The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.",
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"Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.",
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"A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.",
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"A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.",
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"The average raindrop falls at seven mph.",
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"Fish can drown.",
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"A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.",
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"Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.",
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"Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.",
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"The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.",
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"A turkey can run at 20 mph.",
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"When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.",
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"You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.",
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"A one-minute kiss burns about 26 calories.",
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"You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.",
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"You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.",
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"Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.",
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"Frogs never drink.",
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"Only male turkeys gobble.",
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"At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.",
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"The largest fish is the whale shark – it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.",
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"Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.",
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"The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.",
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"The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.",
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"The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.",
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"A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.",
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"Beavers were once the size of bears.",
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"Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.",
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"Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.",
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"A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.",
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"A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.",
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"Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.",
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"Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.",
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"Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.",
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"A crocodile cannot move its tongue.",
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"Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.",
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"Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.",
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"The city of Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.",
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"Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.",
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"Hawaii is the only state with one school district.",
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"The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.",
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"Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.",
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"''Q'' is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.",
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"Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.",
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"Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.",
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"The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.",
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"Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.",
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"The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.",
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"Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.",
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"The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.",
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"The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895.",
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"In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.",
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"Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.",
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"The first MTV video was ''Video Killed the Radio Star'' by the Buggles.",
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"The first TV show to ever be put into reruns was ''The Lone Ranger.''",
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"One alternate title that had been considered for NBC's hit ''Friends'' was ''Insomnia Café.''",
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"The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.",
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"The first penny had the motto ''Mind your own business.''",
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"The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.",
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"Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.",
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"Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.",
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"You'd have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.",
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"One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.",
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"The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.",
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"In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.",
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"The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.",
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"The eye makes movements 50 times every second.",
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"The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.",
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"In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.",
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"The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.",
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"The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.",
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"The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.",
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"The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.",
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"A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.",
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"The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.",
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"The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.",
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"A male kangaroo is called a boomer.",
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"A female kangaroo is called a flyer.",
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"Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.",
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"The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York.",
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"Thailand means ''Land of the Free.''",
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"Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.",
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"Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.",
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"The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.",
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"You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.",
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"Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.",
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"If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.",
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"The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.",
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"The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).",
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"The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.",
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"Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.",
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"Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the Sun.",
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"Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.",
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"Add up opposing sides of a dice cue and you'll always get seven.",
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"The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.",
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"Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.",
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"Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.",
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"Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.",
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"A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.",
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"An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.",
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"Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.",
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"The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.",
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"America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.",
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"There is a town in South Dakota named Tea.",
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"The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.",
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"Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.",
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"The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.",
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"There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.",
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"The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.",
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"Cows give more milk when they listen to music.",
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"The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.",
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"An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.",
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"''Challenger Deep'' is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.",
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"The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.",
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"If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.",
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"The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.",
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"The first typewriter was called the ''literary piano.''",
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"The ''silk'' of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.",
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"Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.",
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"The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was ''A patient waiter is no loser.''",
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"Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.",
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"There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.",
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"The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.",
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"The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.",
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"Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.",
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"There are more saunas than cars in Finland.",
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"The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.",
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"The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.",
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"Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.",
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"Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.",
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"Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.",
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"About 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.",
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"Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.",
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"One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.",
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"Horseback riding can improve your posture.",
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"Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry.",
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"Dim lights reduce your appetite.",
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"At birth a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.",
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"Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples.",
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"It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey.",
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"Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.",
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"China only has one time zone.",
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"Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.",
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"The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.",
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"The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick.",
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"If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.",
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"A compass needle does not point directly north.",
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"Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.",
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"In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.",
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"The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.",
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"Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.",
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"Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.",
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"Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.",
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"Heavier, not bigger lemons, produce more juice.",
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"Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.",
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"No only child has been a U.S. President.",
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"Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.",
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"In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.",
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"David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.",
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"The sail fish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.",
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"The Library of Congress has over 600 miles of shelves.",
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"Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell, because that is how they spelled it in the 18th century.",
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"William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.",
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"Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.",
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"Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.",
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"In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.",
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"The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.",
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"In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.",
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"Ancient Egyptians believed the ''vein of love'' ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.",
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"The word ''facetious'' features all the vowels in alphabetical order.",
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"The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.",
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"A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.",
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"''O'' is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.",
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"The Japanese word ''judo'' means ''the gentle way.''",
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"No two lip impressions are the same.",
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"It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.",
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"Top-performing companies are called ''blue chips'' after the costliest chips in casinos.",
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"The name for the space between your eyebrows is ''nasion.''",
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"The word ''purple'' does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.",
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"The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.",
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"75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.",
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"On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.",
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"Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.",
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"The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.",
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"The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.",
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"The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.",
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"The area code in Cape Canaveral, Fl, is 321.",
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"Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.",
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"Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.",
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"Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.",
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"The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.",
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"There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.",
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"There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.",
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"Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.",
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"California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.",
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"The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.",
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"Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.",
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"The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.",
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"The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.",
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"A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.",
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"It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.",
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"Cold water weighs less than hot water.",
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"Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.",
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"The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.",
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"Bamboo can grow three feet in one day.",
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"A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.",
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"You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.",
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"A baboon is a variety of lemon.",
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"Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby.",
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"Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.",
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"''Arachibutlphobia'' is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.",
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"Pearls dissolve in vinegar.",
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"Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.",
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"The center of some golf balls contain honey.",
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"International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100-feet long.",
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"In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.",
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"On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.",
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"Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.",
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"A housefly hums in the key of F.",
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"Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.",
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"Thomas Edison coined the word ''hello'' and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.",
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"''Way'' is the most frequently used noun in the English language.",
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"The ''high five'' was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.",
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"''Disco'' means ''I learn'' in Latin.",
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"It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.",
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"Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.",
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"The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.",
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"Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.",
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"Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.",
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"New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.",
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"In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.",
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"Three out of every six Americans live within fifty miles of where they were born.",
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"The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named ''Botts dots.''",
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"Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.",
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"It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.",
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"The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.",
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"Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.",
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"Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.",
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"The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.",
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"The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.",
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"Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.",
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"Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.",
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"Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.",
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"Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.",
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"The T-rex’s closest living relative is the chicken.",
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"Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.",
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"Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.",
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"A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.",
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"Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.",
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"Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.",
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"U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.",
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"The ZIP in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.",
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"Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.",
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"The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.",
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"Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.",
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"There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime.",
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"There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.",
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"One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.",
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"A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.",
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"In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.",
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"Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.",
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"Beavers have orange teeth.",
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"The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.",
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"Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.",
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"Snails can sleep for up to three years.",
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"The pupils in goats’ eyes are rectangular.",
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"Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.",
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"Bees’ wings beat about 11,400 times per minute.",
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"The pound sign, or #, is called an octothorp.",
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"The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.",
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"If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon.",
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"You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.",
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"Sound travels quicker in water than in air.",
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"A group of cats is called a clowder.",
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"Human eyes have over two million working parts.",
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"There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.",
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"Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.",
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"Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.",
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"Lobsters can live up to 50 years.",
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"The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.",
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"Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.",
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"A group of a dozen or more cows is called a ‘flink.’",
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"Astronauts actually get taller when in space.",
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"A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.",
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"There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.",
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"The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.",
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"The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.",
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"During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.",
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"Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.",
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"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. They are both part of the Cashew family.",
|
||
"Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.",
|
||
"Over half of the world's geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.",
|
||
"A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.",
|
||
"Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.",
|
||
"Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.",
|
||
"The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.",
|
||
"Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.",
|
||
"A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.",
|
||
"The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.",
|
||
"Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.",
|
||
"A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.",
|
||
"A group of goats is called a trip.",
|
||
"An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.",
|
||
"There are more chickens than people in the world.",
|
||
"Penguins can jump 6 feet.",
|
||
"There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.",
|
||
"The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.",
|
||
"A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.",
|
||
"Dolphins sleep with one eye open.",
|
||
"A duck has three eyelids.",
|
||
"Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.",
|
||
"The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.",
|
||
"The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.",
|
||
"Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.",
|
||
"If a sheep and a goat mate the offspring is called a geep.",
|
||
"Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.",
|
||
"Mountain goats aren't actually goats. They are antelopes.",
|
||
"Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.",
|
||
"Bees are born fully grown.",
|
||
"Ferret comes from the Latin word for little thief.",
|
||
"Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords: one for purring and one for meowing.",
|
||
"Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.",
|
||
"A group of jellyfish is called a smack.",
|
||
"The indentation between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.",
|
||
"The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.",
|
||
"The human brain is about 80% water.",
|
||
"The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.",
|
||
"The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.",
|
||
"Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.",
|
||
"Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.",
|
||
"The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.",
|
||
"It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.",
|
||
"Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.",
|
||
"The official color of California's Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.",
|
||
"It is not possible to tickle yourself.",
|
||
"Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.",
|
||
"There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.",
|
||
"Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.",
|
||
"French author Michel Thayer published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.",
|
||
"Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.",
|
||
"The dots on a domino are called pips.",
|
||
"111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321",
|
||
"Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900's.",
|
||
"The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.",
|
||
"In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.",
|
||
"Karate originated in India.",
|
||
"The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.",
|
||
"Children grow faster during springtime.",
|
||
"It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.",
|
||
"Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.",
|
||
"Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.",
|
||
"Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.",
|
||
"Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.",
|
||
"Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.",
|
||
"Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.",
|
||
"Children have more taste buds than adults.",
|
||
"Right handed people tend to chew food on the right side and lefties chew on the left.",
|
||
"A cucumber consists of 96% water.",
|
||
"Vanilla is used to make chocolate.",
|
||
"One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.",
|
||
"A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.",
|
||
"Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.",
|
||
"Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.",
|
||
"New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.",
|
||
"Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.",
|
||
"Hawaii has its own time zone.",
|
||
"Oregon has more ghost towns than any other US state.",
|
||
"Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.",
|
||
"South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.",
|
||
"The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, reckie, which was short for recruit.",
|
||
"Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100lbs.",
|
||
"Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.",
|
||
"Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6'4'', while James Madison was the shortest at 5'4''.",
|
||
"Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.",
|
||
"Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.",
|
||
"Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.",
|
||
"President Warren G. Harding once lost white house china in a poker game.",
|
||
"Ulysses Simpson Grant was fined $20.00 for speeding on his horse.",
|
||
"President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the white house bathtub.",
|
||
"President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named “Washington Post.”",
|
||
"Harry S. Truman's middle name is S.",
|
||
"The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.",
|
||
"Most Koala bears can sleep up to 22 hours a day.",
|
||
"In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.",
|
||
"Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.",
|
||
"A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.",
|
||
"The bumblebee bat is one of the smallest mammals on Earth. 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. It became The White House in 1901.",
|
||
"George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.",
|
||
"John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.",
|
||
"New York City has over 800 miles of subway track.",
|
||
"Manatees' eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera.",
|
||
"Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.",
|
||
"The nothingness of a black hole generates a sound in the key of B flat.",
|
||
"Horses can't vomit.",
|
||
"Babies are born with about 300 separate bones, but adults have 206.",
|
||
"Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.",
|
||
"A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.",
|
||
"Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.",
|
||
"The penny was the first U.S. coin to feature the likeness of an actual person.",
|
||
"Forty percent of twins invent their own language.",
|
||
"In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.",
|
||
"Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.",
|
||
"George Washington had false teeth made of gold, ivory, and lead - but never wood.",
|
||
"Napoleon Bonaparte was actually not short. At 5' 7'', he was average height for his time.",
|
||
"The Inca built the largest and wealthiest empire in South America, but had no concept of money.",
|
||
"It is against the law to use ''The Star Spangled Banner'' as dance music in Massachusetts.",
|
||
"Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was not actually Egyptian.",
|
||
"Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron.",
|
||
"Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C., and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.",
|
||
"The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.",
|
||
"A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.",
|
||
"Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus' voyage across the ocean, claimed to have only bathed twice in her life.",
|
||
"The longest attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years.",
|
||
"A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - five times hotter than the sun.",
|
||
"At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.",
|
||
"In only 7.6 billion years, the sun will reach its maximum size and will shine 3,000 times brighter.",
|
||
"The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.",
|
||
"Federal law once allowed the government to quarantine people who came in contact with aliens.",
|
||
"There are 21 ''secret'' highways that are part of the Interstate Highway System. 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. Hayes was the first president to use a phone, and his phone number was extremely easy to remember – simply “1.”",
|
||
"Martin Van Buren was the first president born a U.S. citizen; all presidents before him were British.",
|
||
"Andrew Jackson's pet parrot Poll was removed from his funeral for cursing.",
|
||
"There has never been a U.S. president whose name started with the common letter S.",
|
||
"Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender.",
|
||
"Barack Obama is called the 44th president, but is actually the 43rd because Grover Cleveland is counted twice, as he was elected for two terms.",
|
||
"Four times in U.S history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election.",
|
||
"President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese and would use it in the White House to speak privately to each other.",
|
||
"November was chosen to be election month because it fell between harvest and brutal winter weather.",
|
||
"Six of the last 12 U.S. presidents have been left-handed, far greater than the national average of lefties (10%).",
|
||
"William Henry Harrison owned a pet goat while in office.",
|
||
"John Adams had a horse named Cleopatra.",
|
||
"James Madison had a pet parrot who outlived him and his wife.",
|
||
"John Quincy Adams' wife raised silkworms.",
|
||
"Martin Van Buren was given two tiger cubs while he was president.",
|
||
"William Harrison had a billy goat at the White House.",
|
||
"Franklin Pierce was gifted two small ''sleeve dogs'' – he kept one and gave the other to Jefferson Davis.",
|
||
"Abraham Lincoln's son had a pet turkey, which he gave a pardon so it wasn't killed and eaten.",
|
||
"James Garfield had a dog appropriately named Veto.",
|
||
"William Taft liked milk so much that he had cows graze on the White House lawn, Pauline being the last in history to graze there.",
|
||
"Calvin Coolidge had a bulldog named Boston Beans, a terrier named Peter Pan, and a pet raccoon.",
|
||
"John Kennedy had a pony named Macaroni.",
|
||
"Lyndon Johnson had two beagles, named Him and Her, for which he was criticized for picking up by their ears.",
|
||
"Jimmy Carter had a dog named Grits, a gift given to his daughter Amy.",
|
||
"Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, which was the first presidential pet to have its own website.",
|
||
"Woodrow Wilson passed the Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school; he also has a PhD.",
|
||
"President Zachary Taylor's nickname was ''Old Rough and Ready'' because of his famed war career.",
|
||
"Andrew Jackson was once given a 1,400-pound cheese wheel as a gift, which he served at his outgoing President's Reception.",
|
||
"Blueberry jelly beans were created for Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration in 1981.",
|
||
"Dwight D. 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; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.",
|
||
"The city of Chicago was raised by over a foot during the 1850s and ’60s without disrupting daily life.",
|
||
"Red kangaroos can hop up to 44 mph.",
|
||
"Arkansas has the only active diamond mine in the United States.",
|
||
"Robert Heft, who designed the current U.S. flag in a high school project, received a B- because it ''lacked originality.''",
|
||
"The first 18-hole golf course in America was built on a sheep farm in 1892.",
|
||
"Most newborns will lose all the hair they are born with in the first six months of life.",
|
||
"Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.",
|
||
"Coconut water was used as an IV drip in WWII when saline solution was in short supply.",
|
||
"Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.",
|
||
"Peanuts are not actually nuts but legumes.",
|
||
"The Oscar statuette is brittanium plated with 24K gold.",
|
||
"The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.",
|
||
"There is a star that is a diamond of ten billion trillion trillion carats.",
|
||
"One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring 50 miles.",
|
||
"A $100,000 bill exists, but was only used by Federal Reserve Banks.",
|
||
"10 million bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.",
|
||
"One quarter of all the body’s bones are in the feet.",
|
||
"Lake Havasu City, AZ, has been recorded as the hottest city in the U.S. with average summer temperatures of 94.6.",
|
||
"Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.",
|
||
"One of the first sunscreens was sold in the 1910s under the name Zeozon.",
|
||
"In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.",
|
||
"The largest bill ever issued by the U.S. was a $100,000 bill in 1934.",
|
||
"Kickball is referred to as “soccer-baseball” in some parts of Canada.",
|
||
"Less than 1% of Sweden’s household waste ends up in a dump.",
|
||
"Duck Duck Goose is called Duck Duck Grey Duck in Minnesota.",
|
||
"There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.",
|
||
"Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.",
|
||
"A city in Greece struggles to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.",
|
||
"Elvis was a natural blonde.",
|
||
"On Venus, it snows metal.",
|
||
"Eating 600 bananas is the equivalent of one chest X-ray in terms of radiation.",
|
||
"The potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space.",
|
||
"The average dog can understand over 150 words.",
|
||
"At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.",
|
||
"Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.",
|
||
"Blueberries are also called “star berries.”",
|
||
"There are more varieties of blueberries than states in the U.S.",
|
||
"Typically, blueberries become ripe after 2-5 weeks on a bush.",
|
||
"Love blueberries. Celebrate them all year round, but especially in July, National Blueberry Month.",
|
||
"While blueberries grow in clusters on their bush, the individual blueberries ripen at different times.",
|
||
"The first commercial batch of blueberries came from Whitesbog, New Jersey, in 1916.",
|
||
"The perfect blueberry should be “dusty” in color.",
|
||
"Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.",
|
||
"75% of the U.S.’s tart cherries come from Michigan.",
|
||
"Traverse, MI, considers itself the Cherry Capital of the World.",
|
||
"Once cherries have been picked, they don’t ripen.",
|
||
"Make sure to eat a chocolate-covered cherry on January 3; it’s National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day.",
|
||
"On average, how many cherries are in a pound? 44.",
|
||
"The word “cherry” comes from the Turkish town of Cerasus.",
|
||
"A cherry pie is made of about 250 cherries.",
|
||
"Eau Claire, Michigan, is known as “The Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.”",
|
||
"The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.",
|
||
"North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only one country.",
|
||
"Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.",
|
||
"Emergency phone number in Europe is 112.",
|
||
"Canada's postal code for Santa Claus at the North Pole is H0H 0H0.",
|
||
"Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.",
|
||
"In New Zealand, it is illegal to name your twin babies ''Fish'' and ''Chips.''",
|
||
"Chocolate bars and blue denim both originated in Guatemala.",
|
||
"In New Zealand, parents have to run baby names by the government for approval.",
|
||
"When a child loses their tooth in Greece, they throw it on the roof as a good luck wish that their adult teeth will be strong.",
|
||
"Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.",
|
||
"No one in Greece can choose not to vote; voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.",
|
||
"Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.",
|
||
"China is large enough to cover about five separate time zones, but only has one national time zone since the Chinese Civil War in 1949.",
|
||
"There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly five types of clicks.",
|
||
"An African elephant can turn the pages of a book with its trunk.",
|
||
"Ancient Egyptians slept on head rests made of wood, ivory, or stone.",
|
||
"A traffic jam once lasted for 11 days in Beijing, China.",
|
||
"Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.",
|
||
"The blue in the Sistine Chapel is made of ground lapis lazuli gems and oils.",
|
||
"''The Bridge of Eggs'' built in Lima, Peru, was made of mortar that was mixed with egg whites.",
|
||
"In South Korea, you are one year old at birth.",
|
||
"The Great Wall of China is 13,170.7 miles long, over five times the distance from LA to NYC.",
|
||
"The horizontal line between two numbers in a fraction is called a vinculum.",
|
||
"The metal ring on the end of a pencil is called a ferrule.",
|
||
"You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.",
|
||
"There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.",
|
||
"Lake Hillier, in Western Australia, is colored a bright pink.",
|
||
"Spiked dog collars were invented by the Ancient Greeks, who used them on their sheepdogs to protect their necks from wolves.",
|
||
"''Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.'' is a grammatically correct sentence.",
|
||
"On Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds.",
|
||
"Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.",
|
||
"Located on the Detroit River, the J.W. Wescott II is the only floating post office in the U.S. and has its own ZIP Code: 48222.",
|
||
"Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.",
|
||
"Tomatoes have more genes than humans.",
|
||
"In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.",
|
||
"Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.",
|
||
"A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.",
|
||
"You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.",
|
||
"French poodles actually originated in Germany.",
|
||
"Marine mammals swim by moving their tails up and down, while fish swim by moving their tails left and right.",
|
||
"“Knocker uppers” were professionals paid to shoot peas at windows. They were replaced by alarm clocks.",
|
||
"An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T. rexes.",
|
||
"Clicking your computer mouse 1,400 times burns one calorie.",
|
||
"''Guy'' was once an insult for anyone dressed in poor clothes, originating from the burning of effigies of the infamous British rebel, Guy Fawkes.",
|
||
"The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.",
|
||
"The tea bag was created by accident in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.",
|
||
"The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.",
|
||
"A group of frogs is called an army.",
|
||
"Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear.",
|
||
"You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.",
|
||
"There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents, covering much of Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan.",
|
||
"The world's largest mountain range is under the sea.",
|
||
"The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.",
|
||
"Below the Kalahari Desert lies the world's largest underground lake.",
|
||
"Oregon and Mexico once shared a border.",
|
||
"Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Scandinavian king.",
|
||
"A nun held one of the first PhDs in computer science.",
|
||
"For 67 years, Nintendo only produced playing cards.",
|
||
"The ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes.",
|
||
"A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.",
|
||
"Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.",
|
||
"In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.",
|
||
"Every tweet Americans send is archived by the Library of Congress.",
|
||
"A neuron star is as dense as stuffing 50 million elephants into a thimble.",
|
||
"More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.",
|
||
"An earthquake in 1812 caused the Mississippi River to flow backward.",
|
||
"In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs was still paying a Civil War pension.",
|
||
"In Webster's Dictionary, the longest words without repeating letters are “uncopyrightable” and “dermatoglyphics.”",
|
||
"“Unprosperousness” is the longest word in which no letter occurs only once.",
|
||
"“Typewriter” and “perpetuity” are the longest words that can be typed on a single line of a QWERTY keyboard.",
|
||
"There have been three Olympic games held in countries that no longer exist.",
|
||
"Golf is the only sport to be played on the moon.",
|
||
"The word ''checkmate'' comes from the Persian phrase meaning ''the king is dead.''",
|
||
"The brain is the only organ in the human body without pain receptors.",
|
||
"There is a volcano on Mars the size of Arizona.",
|
||
"The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. 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.",
|
||
"The mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II has a passport.",
|
||
"It is physically impossible for a pig to look at the sky.",
|
||
"There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.",
|
||
"A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.",
|
||
"A shrimp's heart is in its head.",
|
||
"A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.",
|
||
"Light could travel around the earth nearly 7.5 times in one second.",
|
||
"A single lightning bolt contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.",
|
||
"About one in every 2,000 babies is born with teeth.",
|
||
"Water can boil and freeze at the same time.",
|
||
"Less than 5% of the population needs just 4-5 hours of sleep.",
|
||
"Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.",
|
||
"Astronauts can't burp in space.",
|
||
"An Immaculate Inning is when a pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches.",
|
||
"Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god.",
|
||
"Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.",
|
||
"In the 1960s, the U.S. 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 part of the Jefferson R. 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."
|
||
] |