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Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.;
Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.;
Slugs have four noses.;
Camels have three eyelids.;
A honey bee can fly at 15mph.;
A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.;
A bee has five eyelids.;
The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.;
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.;
Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.;
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.;
Cats have over 100 vocal cords.;
Camel's milk does not curdle.;
All porcupines float in water.;
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans about 10 to 1.;
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.;
A jellyfish is approximately 95% water.;
Children tend to grow faster in the spring.;
Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.;
Peaches are members of the almond family.;
Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.;
The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.;
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.;
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.;
On average a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.;
Fish have eyelids.;
Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!;
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.;
A snail breathes through its foot.;
Fish cough.;
An ant's sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.;
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.;
Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.;
A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.;
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.;
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.;
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.;
Giraffes have no vocal cords.;
Cats can hear ultrasound.;
Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.;
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.;
There are 63,360 inches in a mile.;
About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.;
The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.;
A human brain weighs about three pounds.;
1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.;
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.;
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.;
Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.;
The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.;
Pigs can get sunburn.;
The life span of a taste bud is about ten days.;
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.;
Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.;
A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.;
Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.;
There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.;
The longest one-syllable word is "screeched.";
No word in the English language rhymes with month.;
There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia.;
The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.;
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.;
No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.;
Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.;
There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.;
About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.;
Alaska has more caribou than people.;
Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).;
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.;
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.;
Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.;
A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.;
A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.;
The average raindrop falls at seven mph.;
Fish can drown.;
A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.;
Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.;
Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.;
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.;
A turkey can run at 20 mph.;
When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.;
You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.;
A one-minute kiss burns about 26 calories.;
You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.;
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.;
Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.;
Frogs never drink.;
Only male turkeys gobble.;
At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.;
The largest fish is the whale shark – it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.;
Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.;
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.;
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.;
The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.;
A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.;
Beavers were once the size of bears.;
Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.;
Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.;
A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.;
A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.;
Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.;
Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.;
Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.;
A crocodile cannot move its tongue.;
Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.;
Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.;
The city of Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.;
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.;
Hawaii is the only state with one school district.;
The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.;
Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.;
"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.;
Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.;
Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.;
The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.;
Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.;
The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.;
Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.;
The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.;
The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895.;
In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.;
Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.;
The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.;
The first TV show to ever be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger.";
One alternate title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Café.";
The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.;
The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business.";
The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.;
Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.;
Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.;
You'd have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.;
One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.;
The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.;
In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.;
The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.;
The eye makes movements 50 times every second.;
The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.;
In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.;
The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.;
The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.;
The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.;
The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.;
A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.;
The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.;
The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.;
A male kangaroo is called a boomer.;
A female kangaroo is called a flyer.;
Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.;
The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York.;
Thailand means "Land of the Free.";
Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.;
Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.;
The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.;
You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.;
Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.;
If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.;
The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.;
The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).;
The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.;
Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.;
Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the Sun.;
Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.;
Add up opposing sides of a dice cue and you'll always get seven.;
The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.;
Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.;
Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.;
Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.;
A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.;
An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.;
Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.;
The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.;
America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.;
There is a town in South Dakota named Tea.;
The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.;
Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.;
The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.;
There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.;
The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.;
Cows give more milk when they listen to music.;
The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.;
An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.;
"Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.;
The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.;
If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.;
The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.;
The first typewriter was called the "literary piano.";
The "silk" of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.;
Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.;
The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was "A patient waiter is no loser.";
Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.;
There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.;
The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.;
The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.;
Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.;
There are more saunas than cars in Finland.;
The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.;
The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.;
Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.;
Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.;
Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.;
About 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.;
Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.;
One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.;
Horseback riding can improve your posture.;
Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry.;
Dim lights reduce your appetite.;
At birth a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.;
Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples.;
It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey.;
Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.;
China only has one time zone.;
Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.;
The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.;
The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick.;
If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.;
A compass needle does not point directly north.;
Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.;
In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.;
The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.;
Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.;
Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.;
Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.;
Heavier, not bigger lemons, produce more juice.;
Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.;
No only child has been a U.S. President.;
Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.;
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.;
David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.;
The sail fish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.;
The Library of Congress has over 600 miles of shelves.;
Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell, because that is how they spelled it in the 18th century.;
William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.;
Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.;
Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.;
In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.;
The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.;
In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.;
Ancient Egyptians believed the "vein of love" ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.;
The word "facetious" features all the vowels in alphabetical order.;
The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.;
A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.;
"O" is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.;
The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way.";
No two lip impressions are the same.;
It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.;
Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in casinos.;
The name for the space between your eyebrows is "nasion.";
The word "purple" does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.;
The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.;
75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.;
On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.;
Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.;
The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.;
The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.;
The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.;
The area code in Cape Canaveral, Fl, is 321.;
Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.;
Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.;
Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.;
The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.;
There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.;
There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.;
Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.;
California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.;
The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.;
Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.;
The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.;
The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.;
A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.;
It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.;
Cold water weighs less than hot water.;
Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.;
The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.;
Bamboo can grow three feet in one day.;
A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.;
You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.;
A baboon is a variety of lemon.;
Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby.;
Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.;
"Arachibutlphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.;
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.;
Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.;
The center of some golf balls contain honey.;
International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100-feet long.;
In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.;
On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.;
Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.;
A housefly hums in the key of F.;
Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.;
Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.;
"Way" is the most frequently used noun in the English language.;
The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.;
"Disco" means "I learn" in Latin.;
It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.;
Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.;
The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.;
Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.;
Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.;
New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.;
In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.;
Three out of every six Americans live within fifty miles of where they were born.;
The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named "Botts dots.";
Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.;
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.;
The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.;
Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.;
Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.;
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.;
The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.;
Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.;
Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.;
Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.;
Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.;
The T-rex’s closest living relative is the chicken.;
Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.;
Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.;
A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.;
Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.;
Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.;
U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.;
The ZIP in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.;
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.;
The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.;
Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.;
There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime.;
There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.;
One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.;
A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.;
In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.;
Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.;
Beavers have orange teeth.;
The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.;
Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.;
Snails can sleep for up to three years.;
The pupils in goats’ eyes are rectangular.;
Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.;
Bees’ wings beat about 11,400 times per minute.;
The pound sign, or #, is called an octothorp.;
The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.;
If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon.;
You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.;
Sound travels quicker in water than in air.;
A group of cats is called a clowder.;
Human eyes have over two million working parts.;
There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.;
Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.;
Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.;
Lobsters can live up to 50 years.;
The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.;
Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.;
A group of a dozen or more cows is called a ‘flink.’;
Astronauts actually get taller when in space.;
A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.;
There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.;
The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.;
The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.;
During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.;
Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.;
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.;
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.;
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.;
The Bee Hummingbird weighs less than a penny.;
A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.;
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.;
The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.;
An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T-Rexes.;
You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.;
Some cats are allergic to humans.;
The tiny pocket in jeans was made for pocket watches.;
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber of the same size.;
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.;
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.;
A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.;
You blink over 4 million times a year.;
The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.;
The lifespan of a taste bud is about ten days.;
A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.;
Kangaroos can jump 30 feet.;
At birth a Dalmatian is always pure white.;
Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.;
The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.;
Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.;
Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.;
The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house with horses.;
In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.;
If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.;
Opposite faces of dice always add up to 7.;
A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.;
The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.;
Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.;
The strike note of the Liberty Bell is E flat.;
A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.;
Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.;
You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.;
The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.;
An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime. .;
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.;
Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.;
Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while preschoolers laugh an average of 300 times a day.;
The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.;
Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.;
Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.;
A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.;
A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.;
It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the UK.;
Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.;
OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but it’s first known use was in 1917.;
An octopus has nine brains and three hearts.;
Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.;
Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you’ll soon fall in love.;
Mint comes in over 30 varieties.;
Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.;
Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.;
Russia and the United States of America are less than 3 miles apart.;
10M bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.;
In Venus, it snows metal.;
In South Korea, a baby is considered 1 year old at birth.;
There is a pink lake in Australia named Lake Hillier.;
Antarctica is home to the largest desert in the world.;
Elephants can smell water from miles away.;
The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.;
The ostrich produces a booming noise, often confused with a lion roar.;
From 2010 to 2017, every tweet was archived by the Library of Congress.;
Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.;
If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.;
The sun is actually white, but the earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.;
Snakes can see even with their eyes closed;
There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.;
Acoustic Kitty was once a cat in training to be a spy.;
Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.;
An avocado is actually a large berry.;
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.;
It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.;
The Cookie Monster's real first name is Sid.;
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.;
Scotland has 421 words for snow.;
Octopuses think with their tentacles.;
"Jingle Bells" was originally written for Thanksgiving.;
The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.;
Two of Snapple’s founders were window washers in Brooklyn.;
One of Snapple’s original founders ran a sardine and pickle store in Queens with his family.;
The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.;
Ants won’t cross a chalk line.;
Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios.;
Banana trees are actually herbs.;
"Donut Towns" are towns that are completely surrounded by other towns.;
Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.;
Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.;
You can start a fire with ice.;
The fire hydrant patent was ironically destroyed in a fire.;
Cotton can catch fire with enough super glue applied.;
Blue flames are the hottest, reaching temps up to 3,000 degrees Celsius.;
Large rain drops can fall at speeds of 20 mph.;
Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.;
A fire will burn faster moving uphill than downhill.;
Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.;
Fire's alchemy symbol is a triangle, resembling a campfire.;
The alchemy symbol for water is an inverted triangle, resembling a cup or glass.;
No rain fell in Iquique, Chile, for 14 years.;
Denver sits at 5,280 feet elevation (1 mile above sea level).;
Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.;
Earth is the only known planet where fire occurs.;
Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth.;
Oxygen supply influences the color of a fire's flame.;
Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.;
About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.;
Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.;
The average raindrop takes 2 minutes to hit the ground.;
Ocean algae produces about 75 percent of the world's oxygen.;
Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.;
A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.;
Pressurized plane cabin air is the same average humidity of the Sahara Desert.;
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.;
The air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.;
The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.;
Earth's sky is purple, our eyes just see it as blue.;
The fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.;
A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.;
Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.;
The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.;
The average raindrop weighs less than an eyelash.;
The water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.;
Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.;
Kangaroos cannot jump without their tails touching the ground.;
Birds can sleep with one eye open.;
Elevenses is a break for light refreshments taken at 11AM in England.;
A man once ate an entire airplane—it took him 2 years.;
The longest alphabet has 74 letters.;
A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.;
In 2015, the Oxford word of the year was the tears of joy emoji.;
"just setting up my twttr" was the first ever tweet.;
Tomatoes are considered both fruits and vegetables—the answer depends on whom you ask.;
A suction cup will not work in outer space.;
Before emojis, there were emoticons, which are icons created from keyboard characters.;
In the 1800s, Cadbury created the first heart-shaped chocolate box.;
Early tales of leprechauns reported red clothing.;
The color of a chicken's earlobe is a good indicator of the color of the eggshell it will lay.;
The summer solstice marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.;
The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.;
Labor Day is the unofficial end of hot dog season.;
Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.;
An AA battery with no charge remaining will not bounce when dropped.;
The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.;
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.;
People don't sneeze in their sleep.;
Platypuses are venomous.;
Asparagus can grow up to 7 inches in a day.;
There are over 2,500 apple varieties grown in the U.S.;
You can tell what a narwhal has eaten each year based on the layers of its tusk.;
The first flight traveled at less than 7 mph (ground speed).;