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#1 A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds. 
#2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons. 
#3 Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water. 
#4 Slugs have four noses. 
#5 Camels have three eyelids. 
#6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph. 
#7 A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day. 
#8 A bee has five eyes. 
#9 The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph. 
#10 Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas. 
#11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp. 
#12 Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward. 
#13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords. 
#14 Camel's milk does not curdle. 
#15 All porcupines float in water. 
#16 The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. 
#17 A hummingbird weighs less then a penny. 
#18 A jellyfish is 95% water. 
#19 Children grow faster in the spring. 
#20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower. 
#21 Almonds are part of the peach family. 
#22 Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work. 
#23 The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument. 
#24 The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses. 
#25 The only food that does not spoil is honey. 
#26 The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters. 
#27 A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber. 
#28 Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying. 
#29 On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime. 
#30 Fish have eyelids. 
#31 The average human will eat an average of eight spiders while sleeping. 
#32 There are one million ants to every human in the world. 
#33 Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music! 
#34 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white. 
#35 Elephants only sleep two hours a day. 
#36 A duck's quack doesn't echo. 
#37 A snail breathes through its foot. 
#38 Fish cough. 
#39 An ant's smell is stronger then a dog's. 
#40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down. 
#41 Shrimp can only swim backward. 
#42 Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open. 
#43 A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways. 
#44 The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps. 
#45 Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day. 
#46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump. 
#47 Giraffes have no vocal chords. 
#48 Cats can hear ultrasound. 
#49 Despite its hump ... camels has a straight spine. 
#50 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. 
#51 There are 63,360 inches in a mile. 
#52 Eleven percent of people in the world are left-handed. 
#53 The average women consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime. 
#54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms. 
#55 A human brain weighs about three pounds. 
#56 A quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet. 
#57 You blink over 10,000,000 times a year. 
#58 A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100 mph. 
#59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train. 
#60 The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body. 
#61 Pigs get sunburned. 
#62 The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days. 
#63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime. 
#64 Strawberries contain more vitamin C then oranges. 
#65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations. 
#66 Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day. 
#67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo. 
#68 The longest one syllable word is "screeched." 
#69 No word in the English language rhymes with month. 
#70 A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second. 
#71 There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia. 
#72 The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use. 
#73 The average person spends two weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change. 
#74 You share your birthday with nine million others in the world. 
#75 The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year. 
#76 The average person spends two years on the phone in his/her lifetime. 
#77 No piece of paper can be folded more then seven times. 
#78 Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S. 
#79 There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter. 
#80 About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet. 
#81 Alaska has more caribou than people. 
#82 August has the highest percentage of births. 
#83 Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros). 
#84 Oysters can change genders back and forth. 
#85 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. 
#86 Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia. 
#87 A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. 
#88 A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid. 
#89 The average American walks 18,000 steps a day. 
#90 The average raindrop falls at seven mph. 
#91 There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C. 
#92 Fish can drown. 
#93 A kangaroo can jump 30 feet. 
#94 Lizards communicate by doing push-ups. 
#95 Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs. 
#96 The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime. 
#97 A turkey can run at 20 mph. 
#98 When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less. 
#99 You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum. 
#100 In a year, the average person walks four miles making their bed. 
#101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time. 
#102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories. 
#103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling. 
#104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record. 
#105 You will burn seven percent more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement. 
#106 You weigh less at the top of a mountain then sea level. 
#107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV. 
#108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories. 
#109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight. 
#110 Frogs never drink. 
#111 Only male turkeys gobble. 
#112 At birth, a Dalmation is always pure white. 
#113 The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43 mph. 
#114 The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old. 
#115 Bamboo makes up 99 percent of a panda's diet. 
#116 The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons. 
#117 The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out. 
#118 Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans. 
#119 The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards. 
#120 The only continent without native reptiles or snakes is Antarctica. 
#121 The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin. 
#122 A duck can't walk without bobbing its head. 
#123 Beavers were once the size of bears. 
#124 Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time. 
#125 Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea. 
#126 A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones. 
#127 A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute. 
#128 Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk. 
#129 Mosquitos have 47 teeth. 
#130 Koala and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints. 
#131 Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water. 
#132 A crocodile cannot move its tongue. 
#133 Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass. 
#134 An ant can lift 50 times its own weight. 
#135 A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year. 
#136 Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside. 
#137 The city of Los Angeles has three times more automobiles than people. 
#138 Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee. 
#139 Hawaii is the only state with one school district. 
#140 Holland is the only country with a national dog. 
#141 The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington. 
#142 Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below. 
#143 "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state. 
#144 Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. 
#145 Lake Superior is the world's largest lake. 
#146 The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan. 
#147 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic. 
#148 The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in. 
#149 Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye. 
#150 The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894. 
#151 The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963. 
#152 In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph. 
#153 The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895. 
#154 Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls. 
#155 In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC. 
#156 Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco. 
#157 The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946. 
#158 The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles. 
#159 The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger." 
#160 One alternative title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Café." 
#161 The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo." 
#162 The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit. 
#163 The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business." 
#164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses. 
#165 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise. 
#166 Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers. 
#167 You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound. 
#168 One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns. 
#169 The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip. 
#170 In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names. 
#171 The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips. 
#172 The eye makes movements 50 times every second. 
#173 Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. 
#174 The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico. 
#175 In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland. 
#176 The first bike was called a hobbyhorse. 
#177 The first sailing boats were built in Egypt. 
#178 The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00. 
#179 The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886. 
#180 The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano. 
#181 The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899. 
#182 A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon. 
#183 The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year. 
#184 The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N. 
#185 A male kangaroo is called a boomer. 
#186 A female kangaroo is called a flyer. 
#187 There are over 61,000 pizzerias in the U.S. 
#188 Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth. 
#189 The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York. 
#190 Thailand means "Land of the Free." 
#191 Popcorn was invented by the American Indians. 
#192 Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours. 
#193 The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009. 
#194 You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice. 
#195 Eleven of the 50 states are named after an actual person. 
#196 If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709. 
#197 The first person crossed Niagra Falls by tightrope in 1859. 
#198 The U.S. is the largest country names after an actual person (Amerigo Vespucci). 
#199 The largest cheesecake ever made weighed 57,508 lbs. 
#200 The first country to use postcards was Austria. 
#206 Over 1 million earths would fit inside the sun. 
#208 Add up opposing sides of a dice cue and you'll always get seven. 
#214 Giraffes can lick their own eyes. 
#218 A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop. 
#221 The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets. 
#227 Tsiology is anything written about tea. 
#228 There is a town in South Dakota named Tea. 
#229 The Caspian Sea is actually a lake. 
#232 The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car. 
#233 There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up. 
#236 Cows give more milk when they listen to music. 
#238 An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye. 
#244 The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet. 
#251 There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris. 
#257 The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce. 
#258 Lemon wood is carved into chess pieces. 
#262 The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to stay awake than caffeine. 
#267 Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport. 
#268 One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year. 
#269 Horseback riding can improve your posture. 
#270 Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry. 
#272 At birth a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown. 
#273 Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples. 
#275 It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey. 
#278 China only has one time zone. 
#292 Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice. 
#294 No only child has been a U.S. President. 
#300 Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell. 
#302 Ketchup was once sold as a medicine. 
#312 A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping. 
#315 No two lip impressions are the same. 
#326 On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects. 
#336 The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J. 
#346 The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm. 
#351 Cold water weighs less than hot water. 
#354 Bamboo can grow three feet in one day. 
#357 A baboon is a variety of lemon. 
#358 Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby. 
#359 A teaspoon contains 120 drops of water. 
#360 Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight. 
#363 Pearls dissolve in vinegar. 
#366 The center of some golf balls contain honey. 
#370 Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes. 
#372 A housefly hums in the key of F. 
#381 Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables. 
#383 Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning. 
#390 Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes. 
#396 The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph. 
#399 Manhattan was the first capital of the United States. 
#406 The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep. 
#408 Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day. 
#409 Approximately 16,500 people in the U.S. go by the last name Lemon. 
#411 Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation. 
#419 A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second. 
#422 Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family. 
#423 U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper - it's actually a blend of cotton and linen. 
#424 The "ZIP" in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan. 
#425 Kangaroos can't walk backwards. 
#427 Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not. 
#428 There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime. 
#429 There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball. 
#430 One acre of peanuts will make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches. 
#431 A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish. 
#436 Beavers have orange teeth. 
#437 The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second. 
#438 Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year. 
#439 Snails can sleep for up to three years. 
#440 The pupils in goats' eyes are rectangular. 
#442 Bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute. 
#444 The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal. 
#445 If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a "blue" moon. 
#446 You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute. 
#447 A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds. 
#448 The sun evaporates about a trillion tons of water a day. 
#449 Sound travels quicker in water than in air. 
#450 A group of cats is called a clowder. 
#452 There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue. 
#453 Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour. 
#454 Polar bear fur is transparent, not white. 
#455 Lobsters can live up to 50 years. 
#458 Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball. 
#463 The dot over the letter "I" is called a tittle. 
#464 Cows do not have upper front teeth. 
#469 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound. 
#473 Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water. 
#474 To temporarily revive your ballpoint pen, dip the tip into hot water for a few seconds. 
#475 Wrapping rubber bands around the ends of hangers can prevent clothes from slipping off. 
#476 Replacing your car's air filter can improve gas mileage by 10 percent. 
#477 A chalkboard eraser is one of the best ways to wipe a foggy windshield. 
#478 Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using. 
#479 Knots come out easier if you sprinkle talcum powder on them. 
#480 You can tell which day a loaf of bread was baked by the color of its plastic twist tag. 
#484 Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50 percent. 
#485 Refrigerating apples can help them last up to 10 times longer than those left at room temperature. 
#486 While chopping onions, hold a piece of bread between your lips to keep your eyes from watering. 
#487 Place an apple in the bag with your potatoes to keep them from budding. 
#488 Place a slice of bread in the storage container to keep cookies soft when storing. 
#489 To keep an ice cream cone from dripping, stuff a miniature marshmallow into the bottom of the cone. 
#490 To take lumps out of a bag of sugar, place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours. 
#492 To remove crayon marks from walls, use a hairdryer to heat the wax. 
#493 To make a zipper slide up and down more smoothly, rub a bar of soap over the teeth. 
#494 Wipe the leaves of your plants with the soft inside of a banana skin to bring up shine and remove dust. 
#496 To clean paint off your hands, use olive oil - it softens the paint and makes it easy to remove. 
#497 To fix a button about to fall off, dab a little clear nail polish over the threads holding it on. 
#651 Forty-six percent of leisure visitors to downtown New York City come from outside the United States. 
#654 New York taxi drivers collectively speak 60 languages 
#658 New York City is made up of 50 islands. 
#660 The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat. 
#661 Pigs were banished from Philadelphia's city streets in 1710. 
#662 Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States. 
#663 Forty percent of America's population lives within a one-day drive to Philadelphia. 
#664 It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia. 
#665 One in six doctors in America was trained in Philadelphia. 
#667 The shoreline at Wildwood grows almost 100 feet per year. 
#668 Cape May is the oldest seashore resort in America. 
#669 In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City. 
#670 Long Beach Island was once frequented by pirates. 
#671 There is a town called "Jersey Shore" in Pennsylvania. 
#672 The Wildwood Boardwalk extends nearly two miles and has more than 70,000 wooden planks. 
#673 The first Ferris wheel was built in Atlantic City in 1869. 
#674 Snapple helped fund the creation of more than 138 new PSAL Teams. 
#675 Snapple helped fund the creation of the C.H.A.M.P.S. Sports & Fitness Program, benefiting more than 15,000 NYC Public School Middle Students.