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1 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.
2Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.
3Slugs have four noses.
4Camels have three eyelids.
5A honey bee can fly at 15mph.
6A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.
7A bee has five eyelids.
8The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.
9Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.
10Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
11Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.
12Cats have over 100 vocal cords.
13Camel's milk does not curdle.
14All porcupines float in water.
15The world's termites outweigh the world's humans about 10 to 1.
16A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
17A jellyfish is approximately 95% water.
18Children tend to grow faster in the spring.
19Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.
20Peaches are members of the almond family.
21Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.
22The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.
23The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
24A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
25On average a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
26Fish have eyelids.
27Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
28If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.
29A snail breathes through its foot.
30Fish cough.
31An ant's sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.
32It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.
33Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.
34A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.
35The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
36Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.
37Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
38Giraffes have no vocal cords.
39Cats can hear ultrasound.
40Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
41Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
42There are 63,360 inches in a mile.
43About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.
44The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
45A human brain weighs about three pounds.
461/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
47You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
48A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.
49Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.
50The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.
51Pigs can get sunburn.
52The life span of a taste bud is about ten days.
53The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
54Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.
55A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.
56Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.
57There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.
58The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."
59No word in the English language rhymes with month.
60There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia.
61The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.
62You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
63No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.
64Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.
65There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
66About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.
67Alaska has more caribou than people.
68Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).
69Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
70The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
71Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
72A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.
73A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.
74The average raindrop falls at seven mph.
75Fish can drown.
76A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.
77Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
78Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
79The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.
80A turkey can run at 20 mph.
81When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
82You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.
83A one-minute kiss burns about 26 calories.
84You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.
85You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
86Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.
87Frogs never drink.
88Only male turkeys gobble.
89At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.
90The largest fish is the whale shark – it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.
91Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.
92The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
93The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
94The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.
95A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
96Beavers were once the size of bears.
97Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
98Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
99A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.
100A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
101Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
102Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.
103Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.
104A crocodile cannot move its tongue.
105Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.
106Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
107The city of Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.
108Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.
109Hawaii is the only state with one school district.
110The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.
111Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.
112"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.
113Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
114Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.
115The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.
116Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.
117The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.
118Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.
119The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
120The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895.
121In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.
122Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.
123The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.
124The first TV show to ever be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger."
125One alternate title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Café."
126The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.
127The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."
128The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.
129Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
130Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
131You'd have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.
132One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.
133The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
134In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.
135The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.
136The eye makes movements 50 times every second.
137The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.
138In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
139The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.
140The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
141The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.
142The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.
143A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
144The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.
145The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.
146A male kangaroo is called a boomer.
147A female kangaroo is called a flyer.
148Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.
149The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York.
150Thailand means "Land of the Free."
151Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.
152Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.
153The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.
154You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.
155Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.
156If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.
157The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
158The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).
159The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
160Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.
161Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the Sun.
162Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.
163Add up opposing sides of a dice cue and you'll always get seven.
164The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.
165Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
166Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.
167Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.
168A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
169An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
170Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.
171The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
172America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.
173There is a town in South Dakota named Tea.
174The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.
175Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.
176The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.
177There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.
178The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.
179Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
180The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
181An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.
182"Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.
183The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.
184If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.
185The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.
186The first typewriter was called the "literary piano."
187The "silk" of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.
188Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.
189The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was "A patient waiter is no loser."
190Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.
191There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
192The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.
193The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.
194Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
195There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
196The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.
197The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.
198Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.
199Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.
200Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.
201About 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.
202Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.
203One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.
204Horseback riding can improve your posture.
205Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry.
206Dim lights reduce your appetite.
207At birth a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.
208Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples.
209It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey.
210Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.
211China only has one time zone.
212Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.
213The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.
214The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick.
215If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.
216A compass needle does not point directly north.
217Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.
218In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.
219The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.
220Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.
221Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.
222Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.
223Heavier, not bigger lemons, produce more juice.
224Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.
225No only child has been a U.S. President.
226Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
227In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.
228David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.
229The sail fish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.
230The Library of Congress has over 600 miles of shelves.
231Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell, because that is how they spelled it in the 18th century.
232William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.
233Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
234Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.
235In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.
236The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.
237In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
238Ancient Egyptians believed the "vein of love" ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.
239The word "facetious" features all the vowels in alphabetical order.
240The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.
241A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
242"O" is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.
243The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way."
244No two lip impressions are the same.
245It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.
246Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in casinos.
247The name for the space between your eyebrows is "nasion."
248The word "purple" does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.
249The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.
25075% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
251On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.
252Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.
253The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
254The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.
255The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.
256The area code in Cape Canaveral, Fl, is 321.
257Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.
258Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.
259Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.
260The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.
261There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.
262There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.
263Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.
264California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.
265The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.
266Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.
267The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
268The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.
269A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.
270It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.
271Cold water weighs less than hot water.
272Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
273The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.
274Bamboo can grow three feet in one day.
275A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.
276You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.
277A baboon is a variety of lemon.
278Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby.
279Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.
280"Arachibutlphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
281Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
282Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.
283The center of some golf balls contain honey.
284International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100-feet long.
285In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.
286On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.
287Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
288A housefly hums in the key of F.
289Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.
290Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.
291"Way" is the most frequently used noun in the English language.
292The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.
293"Disco" means "I learn" in Latin.
294It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.
295Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
296The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
297Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.
298Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.
299New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.
300In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.
301Three out of every six Americans live within fifty miles of where they were born.
302The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named "Botts dots."
303Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.
304It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
305The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.
306Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.
307Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.
308The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.
309The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.
310Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.
311Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.
312Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.
313Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.
314The T-rex’s closest living relative is the chicken.
315Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.
316Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.
317A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
318Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.
319Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.
320U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.
321The ZIP in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.
322Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
323The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.
324Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.
325There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime.
326There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.
327One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
328A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.
329In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.
330Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.
331Beavers have orange teeth.
332The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.
333Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.
334Snails can sleep for up to three years.
335The pupils in goats’ eyes are rectangular.
336Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.
337Bees’ wings beat about 11,400 times per minute.
338The pound sign, or #, is called an octothorp.
339The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.
340If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon.
341You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.
342Sound travels quicker in water than in air.
343A group of cats is called a clowder.
344Human eyes have over two million working parts.
345There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.
346Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.
347Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.
348Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
349The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.
350Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.
351A group of a dozen or more cows is called a ‘flink.’
352Astronauts actually get taller when in space.
353A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.
354There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.
355The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.
356The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.
357During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.
358Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.
359Camels have three eyelids.
360454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.
361Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.
362A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.
363Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.
364Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.
365Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your head and neck.
366Smile more – every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
367New York taxi drivers collectively speak about 60 languages.
368New York City is made up of 50 islands.
369The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat.
370Pigs were banished from Philadelphia's city streets in 1710.
371About 40% of America's population lives within a one day drive to Philadelphia.
372It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.
373In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City.
374The oldest living animal ever found was a 405 year-old clam, named Ming by researchers.
375More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.
376At 5 feet, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America.
377A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.
378Unlike your housecat, the Siberian tiger actually loves to swim!
379A tiger’s night vision is six times better than a human’s.
380More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.
381The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.
382The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.
383Wildlife Forever has helped plant more than 132,000 trees in America since its founding in 1987.
384Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.
385Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.
386A Pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.
387The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.
388Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.
389The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.
390The archer fish can spit water up to 7 feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.
391The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench.
392A male cricket's ear is located on the tibia of its leg.
393Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.
394The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.
395Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.
396Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than normal paper.
397Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
398Steel is 100% recyclable.
399Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.
400An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.
401A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
402In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.
403There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.
404Mangoes are the most-consumed fruit in the world.
405Strawberries have an average of 200 seeds.
406A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.
407Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
408The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.
409A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.
410Only female mosquitoes bite.
411A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.
412A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.
413The planet Saturn's density is lower than water; in fact, it would float if placed in water.
414Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness.
415The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.
416There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
417The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
418All scorpions glow.
419Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.
420A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
421The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
422Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of the Cashew family.
423Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
424Over half of the world's geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.
425A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
426Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.
427Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
428The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.
429Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.
430A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
431The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.
432Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
433A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
434A group of goats is called a trip.
435An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
436There are more chickens than people in the world.
437Penguins can jump 6 feet.
438There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.
439The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.
440A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
441Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
442A duck has three eyelids.
443Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
444The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
445The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.
446Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
447If a sheep and a goat mate the offspring is called a geep.
448Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.
449Mountain goats aren't actually goats. They are antelopes.
450Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.
451Bees are born fully grown.
452Ferret comes from the Latin word for little thief.
453Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords: one for purring and one for meowing.
454Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.
455A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
456The indentation between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.
457The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.
458The human brain is about 80% water.
459The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.
460The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.
461Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
462Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.
463The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
464It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.
465Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.
466The official color of California's Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.
467It is not possible to tickle yourself.
468Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.
469There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
470Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.
471French author Michel Thayer published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.
472Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
473The dots on a domino are called pips.
474111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
475Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900's.
476The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.
477In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.
478Karate originated in India.
479The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
480Children grow faster during springtime.
481It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
482Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.
483Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
484Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
485Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
486Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.
487Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.
488Children have more taste buds than adults.
489Right handed people tend to chew food on the right side and lefties chew on the left.
490A cucumber consists of 96% water.
491Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
492One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.
493A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.
494Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
495Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.
496New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.
497Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.
498Hawaii has its own time zone.
499Oregon has more ghost towns than any other US state.
500Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.
501South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.
502The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, reckie, which was short for recruit.
503Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100lbs.
504Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.
505Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6'4", while James Madison was the shortest at 5'4".
506Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.
507Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.
508Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
509President Warren G. Harding once lost white house china in a poker game.
510Ulysses Simpson Grant was fined $20.00 for speeding on his horse.
511President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the white house bathtub.
512President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named “Washington Post.”
513Harry S. Truman's middle name is S.
514The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.
515Most Koala bears can sleep up to 22 hours a day.
516In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.
517Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.
518A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.
519The bumblebee bat is one of the smallest mammals on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.
520The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.
521The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
522The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
523Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.
524Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
525The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.
526If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
527The side of a hammer is called a cheek.
528In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.
529In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone's cow.
530Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.
531A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
532The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
533A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
534At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
535The lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.
536Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother's maiden name was also Moon.
537Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.
538The highest denomination issued by the U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.
539The White House was originally called the President's Palace. It became The White House in 1901.
540George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.
541John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.
542New York City has over 800 miles of subway track.
543Manatees' eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera.
544Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.
545The nothingness of a black hole generates a sound in the key of B flat.
546Horses can't vomit.
547Babies are born with about 300 separate bones, but adults have 206.
548Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.
549A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
550Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
551The penny was the first U.S. coin to feature the likeness of an actual person.
552Forty percent of twins invent their own language.
553In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
554Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.
555George Washington had false teeth made of gold, ivory, and lead - but never wood.
556Napoleon Bonaparte was actually not short. At 5' 7", he was average height for his time.
557The Inca built the largest and wealthiest empire in South America, but had no concept of money.
558It is against the law to use "The Star Spangled Banner" as dance music in Massachusetts.
559Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was not actually Egyptian.
560Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron.
561Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C., and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
562The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.
563A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.
564Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus' voyage across the ocean, claimed to have only bathed twice in her life.
565The longest attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years.
566A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - five times hotter than the sun.
567At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
568In only 7.6 billion years, the sun will reach its maximum size and will shine 3,000 times brighter.
569The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.
570Federal law once allowed the government to quarantine people who came in contact with aliens.
571There are 21 "secret" highways that are part of the Interstate Highway System. They are not identified as such by road signs.
572The aphid insect is born pregnant.
573John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
574It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.
575It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the United Kingdom.
576Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
577-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperatures as -40 degrees Celsius.
578U.S. President John Tyler had 15 children, the last of which was born when he was 70 years old.
579Dolphins are unable to smell.
580Charlie Chaplin failed to make the finals of a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
581The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.
582The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
583'K' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because 'S' was being used to denote a sacrifice.
584A dimpled golf ball produces less drag and flies farther than a smooth golf ball.
585When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
586President Chester A. Arthur owned 80 pairs of pants, which he changed several times per day.
587Cows do not have upper front teeth.
588Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was farther from the Sun than Pluto. This won't happen again until 2227.
589When creating a mummy, Ancient Egyptians removed the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.
590All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996, and 2008 U.S. presidential elections were left-handed.
591In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.
592The first American gold rush happened in North Carolina, not California.
593To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.
594Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.
595The Chicago river flows backwards; the flow reversal project was completed in 1900.
596The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.
597Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.
598Baby bunnies are called kittens.
599A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
600Sea otters hold each other’s paws while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.
601Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.
602Male pups will intentionally let female pups “win” when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.
603A cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.
604A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
60599% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
606More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
607If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in outer space, they will bond together permanently.
608Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.
609A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.
610Ancient Chinese warriors would show off to their enemies before battle, by juggling.
611OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but its first known use was in 1917.
612In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
613The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
614Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.
615Norway once knighted a penguin.
616The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
617It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
618Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
619One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.
620Strawberries are grown in every state in the U.S. and every province in Canada.
621The phrase, “You’re a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.
622At latitude 60° south, it is possible to sail clear around the world without touching land.
623Interstate 90 is the longest U.S. Interstate Highway with over 3,000 miles from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA.
624DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.
625Benjamin Franklin invented flippers.
626Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
627Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.
628Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.
629The official taxonomic classification for llamas is Llama glama.
630Remove all the space between its atoms and Earth would be the size of a baseball.
631The soil on Mars is rust color because it's full of rust.
632Sound travels up to 15 times faster through steel than air, at speeds up to 19,000 feet per second.
633Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
634Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
635An octopus has three hearts.
636Only 12 U.S. presidents have been elected to office for two terms and served those two terms.
637Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office for four terms prior to the 22nd Amendment.
638John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected president, and Ronald Reagan, at 73, the oldest.
639James Buchanan is the only bachelor to be elected president.
640Eight presidents have died while in office.
641Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III, but took his stepfather’s last name when his mother remarried.
642Prior to the 12th Amendment in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second highest number of electoral votes was vice president.
643George Washington was a successful liquor distributor, making rye whiskey, apple brandy, and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery.
644Thomas Jefferson and John Adams chipped off a piece of Shakespeare's chair as a souvenir when they visited his home in 1786.
645George Washington started losing his permanent teeth in his 20s and had only one natural tooth by the time he was president.
646George Washington had false teeth made from many different materials, including an elephant tusk and hippopotamus ivory.
647George Washington protected his beloved horses from losing their teeth by making sure they were brushed regularly.
648John Quincy Adams regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River.
649Calvin Coolidge was so shy, he was nicknamed “Silent Cal.”
650Calvin Coolidge loved to wear a cowboy hat and ride his mechanical horse.
651President Herbert Hoover invented “Hooverball” (a cross between volleyball and tennis using a medicine ball), which he played with his cabinet members.
652Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, many of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel.
653Martin Van Buren's nickname was "Old Kinderhook" because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y.
654James Buchanan bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.
655Abraham Lincoln was only defeated once in about 300 wrestling matches, making it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with honors as "Outstanding American."
656In his youth, President Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor.
657Ulysses 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.
658Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.
659Benjamin 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.
660William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good-luck charm.
661Herbert Hoover's son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.
662Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen.”
663Bill Clinton's face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models.
664In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
665Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office.
666Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, was the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency.
667James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.
668There 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.
669To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds.
670Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone, and his phone number was extremely easy to remember – simply “1.”
671Martin Van Buren was the first president born a U.S. citizen; all presidents before him were British.
672Andrew Jackson's pet parrot Poll was removed from his funeral for cursing.
673There has never been a U.S. president whose name started with the common letter S.
674Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender.
675Barack Obama is called the 44th president, but is actually the 43rd because Grover Cleveland is counted twice, as he was elected for two terms.
676Four times in U.S history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election.
677President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese and would use it in the White House to speak privately to each other.
678November was chosen to be election month because it fell between harvest and brutal winter weather.
679Six of the last 12 U.S. presidents have been left-handed, far greater than the national average of lefties (10%).
680William Henry Harrison owned a pet goat while in office.
681John Adams had a horse named Cleopatra.
682James Madison had a pet parrot who outlived him and his wife.
683John Quincy Adams' wife raised silkworms.
684Martin Van Buren was given two tiger cubs while he was president.
685William Harrison had a billy goat at the White House.
686Franklin Pierce was gifted two small "sleeve dogs" – he kept one and gave the other to Jefferson Davis.
687Abraham Lincoln's son had a pet turkey, which he gave a pardon so it wasn't killed and eaten.
688James Garfield had a dog appropriately named Veto.
689William Taft liked milk so much that he had cows graze on the White House lawn, Pauline being the last in history to graze there.
690Calvin Coolidge had a bulldog named Boston Beans, a terrier named Peter Pan, and a pet raccoon.
691John Kennedy had a pony named Macaroni.
692Lyndon Johnson had two beagles, named Him and Her, for which he was criticized for picking up by their ears.
693Jimmy Carter had a dog named Grits, a gift given to his daughter Amy.
694Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, which was the first presidential pet to have its own website.
695Woodrow Wilson passed the Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school; he also has a PhD.
696President Zachary Taylor's nickname was "Old Rough and Ready" because of his famed war career.
697Andrew Jackson was once given a 1,400-pound cheese wheel as a gift, which he served at his outgoing President's Reception.
698Blueberry jelly beans were created for Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration in 1981.
699Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Texas-born president.
700Lyndon Johnson's family all had the initials LBJ.
701Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get sick.
702Gerald Ford worked as a fashion model during college and actually appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.
703Dwight Eisenhower was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II.
704Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
705Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed, believing it was good for his health.
706A portion of Grover Cleveland's jaw was artificial, composed of vulcanized rubber.
707Russia and the United States are less than three miles apart.
708John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July in 1826.
709Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido was the first "First Dog" to be photographed.
710President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs: Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
711President Rutherford B. Hayes' cat Siam was the first Siamese cat in the U.S.
712President John Quincy Adams' pet alligator lived in a White House bathroom.
713First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote, "If you love me...you must love my dog."
714John Adams' pets Satan and Juno were the first dogs to live in the White House.
715Calvin Coolidge walked pet raccoon Rebecca on a leash around the White House.
716More presidents have had pet birds than cats.
717Thomas Jefferson's pet mockingbird was trained to eat out of his mouth.
718Spotty Bush, an English Springer Spaniel, has been the only presidential pet to live at the White House during two different administrations.
719Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride on a railroad train.
720Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to wear pants in public.
721First Lady Martha Washington was the first American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
722When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
723Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.
724Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state, bordered by 8 states.
725The cotton candy machine was invented in 1897, by a dentist.
726You can’t hum while plugging your nose.
727Elephants are afraid of bees.
728They used to offer goat carriage rides in Central Park.
729Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
730Monday is the only day of the week with an anagram: dynamo.
731The only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere is on display in Fort Worth, TX.
732Humans are 1-2 centimeters taller in the morning than at night.
733Baby giraffes fall up to 6 feet to the ground when they are born.
734It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.
735The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
736A bald eagle nest can weigh up to two tons.
737Worrying squirrels is not tolerated in Missouri.
738Wombat droppings are cube-shaped.
739Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
740Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg.
741There are more nerve connections or "synapses" in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy.
742There are more English words beginning with the letter "S" than any other letter.
743There are more fake than real flamingos.
744The word “bride” comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning “to cook.”
745The word utopia – an ideal place – ironically comes from a Greek word meaning “no place.”
746Los Angeles was originally founded as El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.
747The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.
748Nine-banded armadillos almost always give birth to four identical quadruplets.
749Jellyfish don’t have brains.
750Jellyfish can clone themselves.
751The koala is the longest-sleeping animal, sleeping an average of 22 hours per day.
752Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.
753The city of Chicago was raised by over a foot during the 1850s and ’60s without disrupting daily life.
754Red kangaroos can hop up to 44 mph.
755Arkansas has the only active diamond mine in the United States.
756Robert Heft, who designed the current U.S. flag in a high school project, received a B- because it "lacked originality."
757The first 18-hole golf course in America was built on a sheep farm in 1892.
758Most newborns will lose all the hair they are born with in the first six months of life.
759Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
760Coconut water was used as an IV drip in WWII when saline solution was in short supply.
761Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
762Peanuts are not actually nuts but legumes.
763The Oscar statuette is brittanium plated with 24K gold.
764The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.
765There is a star that is a diamond of ten billion trillion trillion carats.
766One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring 50 miles.
767A $100,000 bill exists, but was only used by Federal Reserve Banks.
76810 million bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.
769One quarter of all the body’s bones are in the feet.
770Lake Havasu City, AZ, has been recorded as the hottest city in the U.S. with average summer temperatures of 94.6.
771Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.
772One of the first sunscreens was sold in the 1910s under the name Zeozon.
773In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
774The largest bill ever issued by the U.S. was a $100,000 bill in 1934.
775Kickball is referred to as “soccer-baseball” in some parts of Canada.
776Less than 1% of Sweden’s household waste ends up in a dump.
777Duck Duck Goose is called Duck Duck Grey Duck in Minnesota.
778There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
779Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.
780A city in Greece struggles to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.
781Elvis was a natural blonde.
782On Venus, it snows metal.
783Eating 600 bananas is the equivalent of one chest X-ray in terms of radiation.
784The potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space.
785The average dog can understand over 150 words.
786At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.
787Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
788Blueberries are also called “star berries.”
789There are more varieties of blueberries than states in the U.S.
790Typically, blueberries become ripe after 2-5 weeks on a bush.
791Love blueberries. Celebrate them all year round, but especially in July, National Blueberry Month.
792While blueberries grow in clusters on their bush, the individual blueberries ripen at different times.
793The first commercial batch of blueberries came from Whitesbog, New Jersey, in 1916.
794The perfect blueberry should be “dusty” in color.
795Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
79675% of the U.S.’s tart cherries come from Michigan.
797Traverse, MI, considers itself the Cherry Capital of the World.
798Once cherries have been picked, they don’t ripen.
799Make sure to eat a chocolate-covered cherry on January 3; it’s National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day.
800On average, how many cherries are in a pound? 44.
801The word “cherry” comes from the Turkish town of Cerasus.
802A cherry pie is made of about 250 cherries.
803Eau Claire, Michigan, is known as “The Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.”
804The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
805North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only one country.
806Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
807Emergency phone number in Europe is 112.
808Canada's postal code for Santa Claus at the North Pole is H0H 0H0.
809Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
810In New Zealand, it is illegal to name your twin babies "Fish" and "Chips."
811Chocolate bars and blue denim both originated in Guatemala.
812In New Zealand, parents have to run baby names by the government for approval.
813When 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.
814Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.
815No one in Greece can choose not to vote; voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.
816Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
817China is large enough to cover about five separate time zones, but only has one national time zone since the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
818There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly five types of clicks.
819An African elephant can turn the pages of a book with its trunk.
820Ancient Egyptians slept on head rests made of wood, ivory, or stone.
821A traffic jam once lasted for 11 days in Beijing, China.
822Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
823The blue in the Sistine Chapel is made of ground lapis lazuli gems and oils.
824"The Bridge of Eggs" built in Lima, Peru, was made of mortar that was mixed with egg whites.
825In South Korea, you are one year old at birth.
826The Great Wall of China is 13,170.7 miles long, over five times the distance from LA to NYC.
827The horizontal line between two numbers in a fraction is called a vinculum.
828The metal ring on the end of a pencil is called a ferrule.
829You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.
830There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
831Lake Hillier, in Western Australia, is colored a bright pink.
832Spiked dog collars were invented by the Ancient Greeks, who used them on their sheepdogs to protect their necks from wolves.
833"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence.
834On Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds.
835Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
836Located 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.
837Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
838Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
839In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.
840Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.
841A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.
842You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
843French poodles actually originated in Germany.
844Marine mammals swim by moving their tails up and down, while fish swim by moving their tails left and right.
845“Knocker uppers” were professionals paid to shoot peas at windows. They were replaced by alarm clocks.
846An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T. rexes.
847Clicking your computer mouse 1,400 times burns one calorie.
848"Guy" was once an insult for anyone dressed in poor clothes, originating from the burning of effigies of the infamous British rebel, Guy Fawkes.
849The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
850The tea bag was created by accident in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
851The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.
852A group of frogs is called an army.
853Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear.
854You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.
855There 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.
856The world's largest mountain range is under the sea.
857The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.
858Below the Kalahari Desert lies the world's largest underground lake.
859Oregon and Mexico once shared a border.
860Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Scandinavian king.
861A nun held one of the first PhDs in computer science.
862For 67 years, Nintendo only produced playing cards.
863The ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes.
864A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.
865Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.
866In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.
867Every tweet Americans send is archived by the Library of Congress.
868A neuron star is as dense as stuffing 50 million elephants into a thimble.
869More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
870An earthquake in 1812 caused the Mississippi River to flow backward.
871In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs was still paying a Civil War pension.
872In Webster's Dictionary, the longest words without repeating letters are “uncopyrightable” and “dermatoglyphics.”
873“Unprosperousness” is the longest word in which no letter occurs only once.
874“Typewriter” and “perpetuity” are the longest words that can be typed on a single line of a QWERTY keyboard.
875There have been three Olympic games held in countries that no longer exist.
876Golf is the only sport to be played on the moon.
877The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase meaning "the king is dead."
878The brain is the only organ in the human body without pain receptors.
879There is a volcano on Mars the size of Arizona.
880The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometers away.
881Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s.
882A housefly hums in the key of F.
883Venus is the only planet in the solar system where the sun rises in the west.
884The state animal of Tennessee is a raccoon.
885If you were to stretch out a Slinky until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
886It's illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia because of its intelligence.
887There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.
888Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
889Fires spread faster uphill than downhill.
890The Florida Everglades is the only place in the world where both alligators and crocodiles live together.
891Newborns can't cry actual tears. This normally occurs between 3 weeks and 3 months of life.
892If you could drive your car upward, you would be in space in less than an hour.
893The sun is actually white, but the Earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.
894The Earth rotates at a speed of 1,040 MPH.
895Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
896The word "aegilops" is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.
897Gorillas burp when they are happy.
898Because of metal prices, since 2006 the U.S. Mint has had to spend more to make a penny than they are worth.
899"Never odd or even" spelled backward is still "Never odd or even."
900In Alabama, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.
901Alaska is the most northern, western, and eastern U.S. state.
902In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.
903A group of raccoons is called a gaze.
904Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
905Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.
906The vertical distance between the Earth's highest and lowest points is about 12 miles.
907A flock of crows is known as a murder.
908Dr. 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.
909Over 80% of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.
910There are more people on Facebook today than there were on the Earth 200 years ago.
911Mangoes have noses.
912Mangoes can get sunburned.
913Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.
914The shortest professional baseball player was 3 feet, 7 inches tall.
915The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.
916The most valuable baseball card ever is worth about $2.8 million.
917The paisley pattern is based on the mango.
918In India, mango leaves are used to celebrate the birth of a boy.
919A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
920When sprinting, professional cyclists produce enough power to power a home.
921Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
922During a typical MLB season, approximately 160,000 baseballs are used.
923The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.
924The British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use.
925The Great Lakes have more than 30,000 islands.
926Mountain lions can whistle.
927While rabbits have near-perfect 360-degree panoramic vision, their most critical blind spot is directly in front of their nose.
928When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.
929Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.
930There have been 85 recorded instances of a pitcher striking out four batters in one inning.
9313.7 million bags of ballpark peanuts are eaten every year at ballparks.
932Shakespeare created the name Jessica for his play "The Merchant of Venice."
933Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.
934The mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II has a passport.
935It is physically impossible for a pig to look at the sky.
936There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
937A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
938A shrimp's heart is in its head.
939A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
940Light could travel around the earth nearly 7.5 times in one second.
941A single lightning bolt contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
942About one in every 2,000 babies is born with teeth.
943Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
944Less than 5% of the population needs just 4-5 hours of sleep.
945Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.
946Astronauts can't burp in space.
947An Immaculate Inning is when a pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches.
948Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god.
949Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.
950In the 1960s, the U.S. government tried to turn a cat into a spy.
951Movie trailers used to come on at the end of movies, but no one stuck around to watch them.
952MLB umpires often wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.
953It is possible to record four outs in one-half inning of baseball.
954There are nine different ways to reach first base.
955During 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."
956Philadelphia zookeeper Jim Murray sent baseball scores to telegraph offices by carrier pigeon every half inning in 1883.
957From 1845 through 1867, home base was circular, made of iron, painted or enameled white, and 12 inches in diameter.
958President Bill Clinton's first presidential pitch (on April 4, 1993) was the first ever from the pitcher's mound to the catcher's mitt.
959Thunder is actually the sound caused by lightning.
960Australia is wider than the moon.
96185% of people only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
962An albatross can sleep while it flies.
963In a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday.
964Bubble wrap was originally invented as a wallpaper in 1957.
965There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.
966Of the 193 members of the United Nations, Britain has invaded 171 of them.
967The Apollo 11 guidance computer was no more powerful than today's pocket calculator.
968“Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” is the technical name for brain freeze.
969Earth is actually located inside the sun's atmosphere.
970The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.
971If you drilled a hole through the earth, it would take 42 minutes to fall through it.
972The planet 55 Cancri e is made of diamonds and would be worth $26.9 nonillion.
973France used the guillotine as recently as 1977.
974Sloths move so slow that algae can grow on them.
975Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
976Michelangelo hated painting and wrote a poem about it.
977The dwarf lantern shark grows to be no bigger than a human hand.
978"Tools of ignorance" is a nickname for the equipment worn by catchers.
979More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical MLB game.
980Pitchers were prohibited from delivering the ball overhand for much of the 19th century.
981Walks were scored as hits during the 1887 season.
982A regulation baseball has 108 stitches.
983A "can of corn" is a routine fly ball hit to an outfielder.
984Baseball is played in more than 100 countries.
985“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.
986A baseball pitcher’s curveball can break up to 17 inches.
987MLB baseballs are rubbed in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud, a unique mud found only near Palmyra, New Jersey.
988The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 30,000 baseball cards as part of the Jefferson R. Burdick collection.
989William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the U.S., began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910.
990MLB National League (1876) is the oldest professional sports league that is still in existence.
991The first modern-day World Series game was played in 1903.
992The Mendoza Line is a .200 batting average.
993There are 13 different pitches a pitcher can throw in baseball.
994The first MLB All-Star Game was played in 1933.
995A player was once ejected from an MLB game for sleeping during the game.
996Baseball hits that bounced over the fence were considered home runs until the 1930s.
997The most home runs ever recorded in an MLB season is 73.
998The highest batting average ever recorded in an MLB season is .440.
999MLB has not had a lefty play catcher since 1989.
1000The longest MLB game went 26 innings.