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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
4	Slugs have 4 noses
5	A camel has 3 eyelids
6	A honey bee can fly at 15 miles per hours
7	A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
8	A bee has 5 eyes
9	The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 miles an hour
10	Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas
11	Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp
12	Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards
13	Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds
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 than a penny
18	A jellyfish is 95% water
19	Children grow faster in the spring
20	Broccoli is the only vegetable that is a flower
21	Almonds are members of the peach family
22	Alaska has the highest percentage of people that walk to work
23	The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
24	The State of Maine has 62 lighthouses
25	The only food that doesn't spoil is honey
26	The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters
27	A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber
28	Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
29	On average, a human being will spend 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime
30	Fish have eyelids
31	The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime while sleeping
32	There are 1 million ants for every person in the world
33	Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music
34	If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white
35	Elephants sleep only 2 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 sense of smell is stronger than a dog's
40	It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs
41	Shrimp can only swim backward
42	Frogs can't 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 a day
46	Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump
47	Giraffes have no vocal chords
48	Cats can hear ultrasound
49	Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine
50	Mosquitoes have 47 teeth
51	There are 63,360 inches in a mile
52	11% of the people in the world are left-handed
53	The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime
54	The average smell weighs 760 nanograms
55	A human brain weighs around 3 pounds
56	1/4 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 mouth at over 100 miles an hour
59	Brain waves can be used to run an electric train
60	The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body
61	Pigs can get a sunburn
62	The life span of a taste bud is ten days
63	The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
64	Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges
65	A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion mathematical calculations
66	Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
67	There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal crackers cookie zoo
68	The longest one-syllable word is "screeched"
69a	No word in the English language rhymes with month
69b	Caller ID is illegal in California
70a	No word in the English language rhymes with month
70b	A jiffy is 1/100 of a second
70c	Caller ID is illegal in California
71	There is a town called Big Ugly, West Virginia
72	The average person uses 150 gallons of water a day for personal use
73	The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change
74	You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
75	The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
76	The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime
77	No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 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% of animal owners share their beds with their pets
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 from one gender to another and back again
85	The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
86	Until the nineteenth 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 than a gallon of liquid
89	The average American walks 18,000 steps a day
90	The average raindrop falls at seven miles per hour
91	There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
92	Fish can drown
93	Kangaroo can jump 30 feet
94	Lizards communicate by doing push-ups
95	Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball
96	The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime
97	A turkey can run 20 M.P.H.
98	When the moon is directly overhead you weigh slightly less
99	You burn 20 calories per hour chewing gum
100	In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed
101	About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day
102	A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories
103	Frowning burns more calories than smiling
104	There are more than 30,000 diets on public record
105	You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement
106	You would way less on the top of a mountain than at sea level
107	You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
108	Licking a stamp burns 10 calories
109	Smelling bananas and/or apples can help you lose weight
110	Frogs never drink.
111	Only male turkeys gobble.
112	At birth, a Dalmatian 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% of a panda's diet.
116	The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 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 but not fly is the 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 cannot walk.
129	Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
130	Koalas 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 3x 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 miles an hour in 1963.
152	In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph.
153	The speed limit in NYC was 8 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 alternate 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 temp. of the sun can reach 15 million degrees F.
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	Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
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 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, DC 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 fifty U.S. states are named after an actual person.
196	If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
197	The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.
198	The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).
199	The largest cheesecake ever made weighed 57,508 lbs.
200	The first country to use postcards was Austria.
201	The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
202	The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 feet wide.
203	Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.
204	A stamp shaped like a banana was once issued in the country of Tonga.
205	For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.
206	Over 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.
207	Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.
208	Add up the opposing sides of a dice cube and you'll always get seven.
209	The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.
210	1.3 billion pounds of peanuts are produced in Georgia each year.
211	The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.
212	A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
213	The largest ball of twine in the US weighs over 17,000 pounds.
214	Giraffes can lick their own eyes.
215	Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.
216	TV dinners originated in the Arctic.
217	Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.
218	A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.
219	An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
220	Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.
221	The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
222	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
223	The Basenji is the only type of dog that does not bark.
224	America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.
225	There are towns named Sandwich in Illinois and Massachusetts.
226	13 percent of the world's tea comes from Kenya.
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.
230	Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.
231	Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.
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.
234	Great Falls, Montana, is the windiest city in the U.S.
235	The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.
236	Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
237	The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
238	An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.
239	Besides humans, elephants are the only animals that can be taught to stand on their head.
240	"Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.
241	The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.
242	The nickname of President Hayes's wife was "Lemonade Lucy."
243	If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch from NYC to Japan.
244	The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.
245	The first typewriter was called the "literary piano."
246	The "silk" of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.
247	Britain was the first country to register a patent on polyester.
248	Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.
249	The first public message to be transmitted via Morse code was "A patient waiter is no loser."
250	Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.
251	There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
252	There is a town in Alaska called Chicken.
253	The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.
254	The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.
255	Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
256	There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
257	The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.
258	Lemon wood is carved into chess pieces.
259	The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.
260	Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.
261	Playing in a marching band is considered moderate exercise.
262	The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to stay awake than caffeine.
263	Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.
264	Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.
265	90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.
266	Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that doesn't have a Main Street.
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.
271	Dim lights reduce your appetite.
272	At birth, a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.
273	Each year, the average American eats about 15 lbs. of apples.
274	All lemons are harvested by hand.
275	It took the first man to walk around the world 4 years, 3 months and 6 days to complete his journey.
276	Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.
277	Today's "modern" wrestling moves have been seen in tomb drawings from ancient Egypt.
278	China has only one time zone.
279	Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.
280	The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.
281	The original name of Nashville, Tennessee, was Big Salt Lick.
282	If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.
283	A compass needle does not point directly north.
284	Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.
285	In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.
286	The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.
287	Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.
288	Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.
289	In 1908, the first lollipop-making machine started in New Haven, CT.
290	One out of every eight residents in the U.S. lives in California.
291	Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.
292	Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.
293	Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.
294	No only child has been a U.S. President.
295	Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.
296	In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.
297	David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.
298	The sailfish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.
299	The Library of Congress has 600 miles of shelves.
300	Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.
301	William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.
302	Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
303	Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.
304	In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.
305	The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.
306	In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
307	All dog breeds except chow-chows have black lips to prevent them from getting sunburned.
308	Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.
309	Ancient Egyptians believed the "vein of love" ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.
310	The word "facetious" features all the vowels in alphabetical order.
311	The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.
312	A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.
313	"O" is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.
314	The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way."
315	No two lip impressions are the same.
316	It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.
317	Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.
318	Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in casinos.
319	The name for the space between your eyebrows is "nasion."
320	There is a town called Jackpot in Nevada.
321	The word "purple" does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.
322	In the U.S., there are about 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents.
323	The Lemon-Yellow Tree Frog is only active in the darkness of night.
324	The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.
325	75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.
326	On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.
327	Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.
328	The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown-one for each of the continents.
329	The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.
330	The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.
331	The area code in Cape Canaveral, FL, is 321.
332	Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.
333	Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.
334	The beaver is the official animal of Canada.
335	Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.
336	The last letter to be added to our alphabet was "J."
337	Farmington, Maine, celebrates Chester Greenwood Day to honor the inventor of earmuffs.
338	Of all the trees in Australia, 75% are eucalyptus.
339	There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.
340	There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.
341	Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.
342	California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.
343	The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.
344	Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.
345	The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
346	The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.
347	A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.
348	It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.
349	Most cats don't like lemonade.
350	The watersheds that supply water to New York City are roughly the size of Delaware.
351	Cold water weighs less than hot water.
352	Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.
353	The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.
354	Bamboo can grow 3 feet in one day.
355	A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.
356	You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.
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.
361	The pineapple is a very big berry.
362	"Arachibutlphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
363	Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
364	Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.
365	The oil in cashews helps prevent tooth decay.
366	The center of some golf balls contain honey.
367	International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100 feet long.
368	In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.
369	On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.
370	Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
371	Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.
372	A housefly hums in the key of F.
373	Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.
374	Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.
375	"Way" is the most frequently used noun in the English language.
376	The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.
377	"Disco" means "I learn" in Latin.
378	It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.
379	The "lemon yellow" crayon was introduced in 1949 and retired in 1990.
380	It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.
381	Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
382	The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
383	Mt. Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.
384	Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.
385	Lemons are more acidic than vinegar.
386	New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.
387	A banana is a giant herb.
388	The first person in the U.S. arrested for speeding was a NYC cab driver.
389	In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.
390	Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
391	A sea lemon is a mollusk that feeds on sponges.
392	Three out of every six Americans live within 50 miles of where they were born.
393	The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named "Botts' dots."
394	Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.
395	It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
396	The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.
397	Bamboo can grow over three feet per day.
398	Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.
399	Manhattan was the first capital of the United States.
400	About 80 women go into labor on NYC subways every year.
401	The coldest city in the U.S. is International Falls, Minnesota.
402	Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.
403	The largest hailstone ever recorded in the U.S. was 17.5 inches around.
404	The Statue of Liberty's nose is four feet six inches long.
405	The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.
406	The deepest place in the ocean is about 7 miles deep.
407	The largest dog litter was 23 puppies.
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.
410	Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.
411	Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.
412	Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.
413	The T-rex's closest living relative is the chicken.
414	Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.
415	The most popular pet name in the United States is 'Max.'
416	Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.
417	All polar bears are left-handed.
418	The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.
419	A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
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421	Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.
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.
426	The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.
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.
432	Antarctica holds 90% of the world's fresh water.
433	The state of Tennessee was originally called Franklin.
434	In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.
435	Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.
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.
441	Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.
442	Bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute.
443	The pound sign, or #, is called an 'octothorp.'
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.'
451	Human eyes have over two million working parts.
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.
456	About 85% of the world's population is right-handed
457	The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.
458	Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.
459	A group of a dozen or more cows is called a 'flink.'
460	Astronauts actually get taller when in space.
461	A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.
462	There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.
463	The dot over the letter 'i' is called a 'tittle.'
464	Cows do not have upper front teeth.
465	The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.
466	During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.
467	Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.
468	Camels have three eyelids.
469	454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.
470	Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.
471	The most common name for a pet goldfish is 'Jaws.'
472	A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.
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.
481	Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your head and neck.
482	Dieting by not eating will actually make your body start conserving calories as fat.
483	Smile more – every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
484	Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50%.
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.
491
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.
495
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.
498-650	Never printed
651	Forty-six percent of leisure visitors to downtown New York City come from outside the United States.
652
653
654	New York taxi drivers collectively speak 60 languages
655
656
657
658	New York City is made up of 50 islands.
659
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.
666
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.
673a	The average sea turtle can't reproduce until it's 25 years old.
673b	The first Ferris wheel was built in Atlantic City in 1869.
674a	The oldest living animal ever found was a 405-year-old clam, named Ming by researchers.
674b	Snapple helped fund the creation of more than 138 new PSAL Teams.
675a	More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22^nd.
675b	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.
676	At five feet, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America.
677	A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.
678	Unlike a normal housecat, the Siberian tiger loves to swim.
679	A tiger's night vision is six times better than a human's.
680	More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.
681	The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.
682a	More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
682b	The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.
683a	Snails have teeth.
683b	Wildlife Forever has helped plant 132,420 trees in America since its founding in 1987.
684	Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.
685	Dogs can make about ten sounds, cats make about 100.
686	A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.
687	The average cat can jump five times as high as its tail is long.
688	Flying fish can leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.
689	The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.
690	A chameleon shoots out its tongue to catch prey at speeds faster than a fighter jet.
691	The archer fish can spit water up to seven feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.
692	The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn its enemies before spraying its stench.
693	A male cricket's ear is located on the tibia of its leg.
694	Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.
695	The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.
696	With an average life expectancy of 81.2 years, the people of Okinawa, Japan live the longest.
697	Pilates stretches your muscles, improving your posture and helping you appear taller.
698	Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.
699	After working out, it takes five hours for your body temperature to return to normal.
700	Turning the faucet off while brushing your teeth can save up to five gallons of water.
701	It takes more water to fill a bathtub than it does to enjoy an average-length shower.
702	On average, a laptop uses half as much energy as a desktop computer.
703	The average bar of soap lasts twice as long as a bottle of body wash.
704	Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than non-recycled paper.
705	Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
706	Steel is 100% recyclable.
707	Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.
708	Manufacturing recycled goods uses up to 95% less energy than using raw materials.
709	Hybrid cars produce up to 75% less pollution than other vehicles.
710	A tankless water heater uses half the energy of a standard model.
711a	To estimate the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, count the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds then add 37.
711b	Baking soda makes a great scouring cleanser, and it's naturally chemical-free.
712	100% recyclable, old newspapers are great for washing windows.
713	An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.
714	When thirsty, a camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
715	In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.
716	There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.
717	The mango is the most-consumed fruit in the world.
718	On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it.
719	A strawberry is not an actual berry but a banana is.
720	Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
721	The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.
722	The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.
723	The optimum depth of water in a birdbath is two and a half inches.
724	A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.
725	Only female mosquitoes bite.
726	A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.
727	A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
728	The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. It would float if placed in water.
729	Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.
730	The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.
731	There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
732	The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
733	All scorpions glow.
734	Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.
735	A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
736	More babies are born at night than during the day.
737	The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
738	There are more species of fish in the Amazon river than in the Atlantic ocean.
739	You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.
740	Poison ivy is not ivy and poison oak is not an oak. They are both part of the cashew family.
741	Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
742	Over half of the world's geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.
743	A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.
744	Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.
745	Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
746	The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.
747	Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.
748	A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.
749	The average housefly lives for one month.
750	The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.
751	Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
752	A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
753	A group of goats is called a trip.
754	An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
755	There are more chickens than people in the world.
756	Penguins can jump 6 feet.
757	There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.
758	The only lizard that has a voice is the gecko.
759	A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
760	Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
761	Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
762	A duck has three eyelids.
763	Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
764	The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
765	A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
766	The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.
767	Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
768	Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
769	If a sheep and a goat mate the offspring is called a geep.
770	Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.
771	Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens.
772	Male moose shed their antlers every winter and grow a new pair the next year.
773	Mountain goats aren't actually goats. They are antelopes.
774	Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.
775	Bees are born fully grown.
776	Ferret comes from the Latin word for little thief.
777	Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords: one for purring and one for meowing.
778	Some bears build nests in trees for sunbathing and resting.
779	A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
780	The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.
781	Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
782	The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.
783	Men get hiccups more than women.
784	The human brain is about 80% water.
785	The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
786	The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.
787	Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
788	The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
789	The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.
790	Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.
791	The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
792	The state of Florida is bigger than England.
793	Broadway is one of the longest streets in the world. It is 150 miles long.
794	Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskien Point, the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart.
795	Hawaii is moving toward Japan at the rate of almost 4 inches per year.
796	India has more English speakers than the United States.
797	In Youngstown Ohio, it is against the law to run out of gas.
798	Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.
799	The official color of California's Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.
800	Most lipstick contains fish scales.
801	It is not possible to tickle yourself.
802	Every state except Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii is home to at least one species of venomous snake.
803	Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.
804	There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
805	India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
806	In Albania, nodding your head means "no" and shaking your head means "yes."
807	Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."
808	Some violins contain 70 separate pieces of wood.
809	French author Michel Thayer published a 233-page novel which has no verbs.
810	Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
811	The dots on a domino are called pips.
812	111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
813	The number sign # is called an octothorpe.
814	Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
815	The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.
816	In Ancient Greece throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.
817	Karate originated in India.
818	The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
819	Children grow faster during springtime.
820	Relative to size, the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
821	It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
822	The only jointless bone in the body is in your throat.
823	Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.
824	On average a man spends about five months of his life shaving.
825	Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
826	In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
827	Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
828	Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
829	Women's hearts beat faster than men's hearts.
830	The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
831	Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
832	Brain waves can power an electric train.
833	Children have more taste buds than adults.
834	Right-handed people tend to chew food on the right side and lefties chew on the left.
835	You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
836	Pomology is the study of fruit.
837	The most widely-eaten fruit in America is the banana.
838	Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them.
839	A cucumber consists of 96% water.
840	The only food that does not spoil is honey.
841	The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla.
842	Vanilla is used to make chocolate.
843	Bamboo (the world's tallest grass) can grow up to 90cm in a day.
844	One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.
845	A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.
846	An average of three billion cups of tea are consumed daily, worldwide.
847	Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
848	Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.
849	New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.
850	Hawaii is further south than Florida.
851	Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.
852	Clearwater, Florida has the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita in the U.S.
853	Hawaii has its own time zone.
854	Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
855	Oregon has more ghost towns than any other U.S. state.
856	The world's largest silver nugget (1840 lbs) was found in 1894 near Aspen, CO.
857	Louisiana is home to over 80% of the world's crayfish.
858	New Jersey is home to the world's first drive-in movie theater.
859	George Washington took the oath of office in New York City in 1789.
860	Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.
861	South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.
862	The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee, WI in 1867.
863	The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, "reckie", which was short for recruit.
864	Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100lbs.
865	Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.
866	Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6'4". James Madison was the shortest at 5'4".
867	Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.
868	Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.
869	Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.
870	President Warren G. Harding once lost White House china in a poker game.
871	Ulysses Simpson Grant once got a $20.00 fine for speeding on his horse.
872	President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the White House bathtub.
873	President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named "Washington Post."
874	Harry S Truman's middle name is S.
875	Before Thomas Jefferson took office people bowed to the president, rather than shaking his hand.
876	The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.
877	People don't sneeze when they are asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are also resting.
878	Only male fireflies can fly.
879	Most Koala bears sleep about 22 hours a day.
880	A Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
881	A baby caribou can outrun its mother at 3 days old.
882	In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.
883	Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
884	A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.
885	Vultures can fly for six hours without flapping their wings.
886	The bumblebee bat is the smallest mammal on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.
887	The "Valley of Square Trees" in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.
888	In some cultures' telling of Snow White, the Dwarfs are thieves.
889	The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
890	The number "1" or the word "One" appears on the dollar bill 16 times.
891	Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
892	The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
893	Jack-O-Lanterns were originally made out of turnips.
894	Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
895	If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger nuts will rise to the top.
896	2nd Street is the most common street name in the United States; First Street is the 6th most common.
897	The Mayflower only held 102 people.
898	The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.
899	The plastic things on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.
900	Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.
901	The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.
902	Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
903	The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.
904	If done perfectly, any Rubick's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.
905	The side of a hammer is called a cheek.
906	Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
907	Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
908	In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either "unbathed" or "poorly dressed."
909	In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone's cow.
910	Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.
911	A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
912	Meteorologists claim they're right 85% of the time.
913	The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.
914	A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
915	At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
916	The scientific term for a sneezing is sternutation.
917	The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write roughly 50,000 English words.
918	The first lollipop was invented in Connecticut.
919	The lollipop was named after one of the most famous racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.
920	Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother's maiden name was also Moon.
921	If you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all.
922	Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.
923	In Germany, the shhh sound means hurry up.
924	The highest denomination issued by the U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.
925	The White House was originally called the President's Palace. It became the White House in 1901.
926	George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.
927	John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.
928	New York City has 722 miles of subway track.
M5-929	Feeding America distributes over 3 BiLLiON lbs of food annually.
M5-930	Maroon 5's Jesse Carmichael is also a certified yoga instructor.
M5-931	Maroon 5's James Valentine was once a top fencer in the state of Nebraska.
M5-932	Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine has a dog named Frankie.
M5-933	Maroon 5's Adam Lavine has a tattoo that reads "Mom".
M5-934	Maroon 5 band members Adam, Mickey & Jesse have been friends since the 7th grade.
M5-935	Maroon 5's former name was "Kara's Flowers."
M5-936	Maroon 5's hometown is Los Angeles, California.
M5-937	Feeding America distributes food to more than 37 million people a year.
M5-938	Maroon 5's Adam Levine is left-handed but plays guitar right-handed.
M5-939	Maroon 5 drummer Matt Flynn is a certified mixologist.
M5-940	Maroon 5 drummer Matt Flynn's main hobby is bee keeping.
M5-941	Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine is a certified Eagle Scout.
AGT-942	The youngest contestant to make the Top Ten on America's Got Talent was just 4!
AGT-943	The oldest contestant on America's Got Talent was 75.
AGT-944	A live America's Got Talent episode uses 11 cameras to capture all the action.
AGT-945	100 lbs of confetti are dropped on contestants in the finale of America's Got Talent.
AGT-946	Three 18-wheelers and one 52-foot truck are used to take America's Got Talent on the road.
AGT-947	4,000,000 individual LEDs light up the America's Got Talent stage.
AGT-948	Each of the judges' 'Xs' on America's Got Talent weighs 300 pounds.
AGT-949	Dogs, cats, snakes, ferrets and a pig have all auditioned on America's Got Talent!
AGT-950	The America's Got Talent team travels almost 8,000 miles searching for talent each year.
AGT-951	America's Got Talent wardrobe department used over 10,000 rhinestones in season 6.
AGT-952	America's Got Talent's hair department uses 150 bottles of hair spray during live shows.
AGT-953	America's Got Talent contestants have waited in line for 24 hours to audition for the show.
929	Manatees' eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera
930	Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.
931	The nothingness of a black hole generates a sound in the key of B flat.
932	Horses can't vomit.
933	A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.
934	Babies are born with about 300 separate bones. Adults have 206.
935	Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.
936	A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
937	Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
938	It cost the United States Mint two cents to produce and distribute a penny in 2012.
939	Until its demolition in 2012, 1% of Greenland's total population lived in a single apartment building called Blok P.
940	Forty percent of twins invent their own language.
941	In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
942	Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.
943	George Washington had false teeth made of gold, ivory, and lead - but never wood.
944	Napoleon Bonaparte was not short. At 5' 7", he was of average height for his time.
945	The Inca built the largest and wealthiest empire in South America, but had no concept of money.
946	It is against the law to use "The Star Spangled Banner" as dance music in Massachusetts.
947	Queen Cleopatra of Eqypt was not actually Egyptian, but a Macedonian Greek.
948	Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron.
949	Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C. and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.
950	The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.
951	A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.
952	Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus' voyage across the ocean, claimed to have only bathed twice in her life.
953	The longest attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years.
954	Until its demolition in 2012, 1% of Greenland's total population lived in a single apartment building called Blok P.
955	A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - five times hotter than the sun.
956	At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
957	In only 7.6 billion years, the sun will reach its maximum size and shine 1,000 times brighter.
958	The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.
959	Federal law once allowed the government to quarantine peolple who came in contact with aliens.
960	There are 21 "secret" highways that are part of the Intersate Highway System. They are not identified as such by road signs.
961	The aphid, a small, sap-sucking insect, is born pregnant.
962	John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.
963	The Pacific Ocean is eight inches higher than the Atlantic Ocean at the Panama Canal.
964	It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.
965	It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the United Kingdom.
966	Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
967	There are ten times more microbial cells than human cells in our bodies.
968	-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperature as -40 degrees Celsius.
969	John Tyler had more children than any other U.S. president. The last of his 15 children was born when he was 70 years old.
970	Dolphins are unable to smell.
971	Charlie Chaplin failed to make the finals of a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
972	The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.
973	Within five minutes of waking, 50% of a dream is forgotten. Within ten minutes, 90% of it is forgotten.
974	All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black unless they are carrying an important person.
975	The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
976	K' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because 'S' was being used to denote a sacrifice.
977	The tradition of baseball managers wearing player uniforms started because the first managers were also players.
978	George Washington feared being buried alive.
979	A dimpled golf ball produces less drag and flies farther than a smooth golf ball would fly.
980	When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
981	President Chester A. Arthur owned 80 pairs of pants, which he changed several times per day.
982	Cows do not have upper front teeth.
983	Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was further from the Sun than Pluto. This will happen again in 2227.
984	When creating a mummy, the Ancient Egyptians removed the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.
985	All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections were left-handed.
986	In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.
987	The first American gold rush happened in North Carolina, not California.
988	Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
989	To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.
990	Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.
991	The Chicago river flows backwards, the flow reversal project was completed in 1900.
992	The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.
993	Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.
994	Baby bunnies are called kittens.
995	A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
996	Sea otters hold each other's paws while sleeping so they don't drift apart.
997	Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.
998	Male pups will intentionally let female pups “win” when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.
999	A cat's nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.
1000	A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
1001	99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
1002	More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
1003	If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in outer space, they will bond together permanently.
1004	Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.
1005	A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.
1006	Ancient Chinese warriors would show off to their enemies before battle, by juggling.
1007	OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but it's first known use was in 1917.
1008	In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
1009	The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
1010	Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.
1011	Norway once knighted a penguin.
1012	The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.
1013	It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
1014	Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
1015	One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.
1016	Strawberries are grown in every state in the U.S. and every province in Canada.
1017	The phrase, “You're a real peach” originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.
1018	At latitude 60° south, it is possible to sail clear around the world without touching land.
1019	Interstate 90 is the longest U.S. Interstate Highway with over 3,000 miles from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA.
1020	DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.
1021	Benjamin Franklin invented flippers.
1022	Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
1023	Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.
1024	Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.
1025	The official taxonomic classification for llamas is Llama glama.
1026	Remove all the space between its atoms and Earth would be the size of a baseball.
1027	The soil on Mars is rust color because it's full of rust.
1028	Sound travels up to 15 times faster through steel than air, at speeds up to 19,000 feet per second.
1029	Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
1030	Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
1031	An octopus has three hearts.
1032	The Chicago Bears were originally based out of Decatur, IL and called the Staleys.
1033	The Bears' unique "rounded" style on their uniforms dates back to the 1950s.
1034	The Bears' trademark "C" logo first appeared on helmets in 1962.
1035	The original Decatur Staleys were renamed the Chicago Bears on January 28, 1922.
1036	The Bears have the most Pro Football Hall of Famers (27) of all NFL teams.
1037	The Chicago Bears have sold out every home game since Sept. 9, 1984.
1038	The Chicago Bears are the only NFL franchise with over 750 all-time wins.
1039
1040	The Chicago Bears have the most retired jersey numbers in the NFL with 14.
1041	The Bears were known as the Decatur Staleys in 1920 and the Chicago Staleys in 1921.
1042	The Bears played their home games at Wrigley Field for 50 seasons (1921-1970).
1043	The largest crowd to attend a Bears game was 100,470 people, in 1958 in Los Angeles.
1044	The 1985 Bears went 15-1 and won the Super Bowl after going 1-3 in the preseason.
1045	The Bears' first regular-season game outside the U.S. was played in Toronto in 2010.
1046	The Bears sent a record nine players to the Pro Bowl in 1985 when they won the Super Bowl.
1047	The Bears' first Thanksgiving game was a 6-0 loss to the Chicago Tigers in 1920.
1048	The Bears clinched the 2005 NFC North title with a win in Green Bay, WI on Christmas Day.
1049	The Bears teams that won back-to-back NFL titles in 1940-41 boasted six future Hall of Fame players.
1050	In 1925, the Bears played 19 games in a two-month span on a coast-to-coast barnstorming tour.
1051	When the NFL was formed in 1920, the Bears and 11 other teams paid a $100 entry fee.
1052	The Bears dominated the NFL in the 1940s, winning four league championships.
1053	The Bears had winning records in 24 of their first 25 seasons of existence from 1920-1944.
1054	In 1970, the Bears played a home game at Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium, beating the Eagles.
1055	The Bears played a preseason game against the CFL's Montreal Alouettes in 1961.
1056	The Bears beat Green Bay 33-14 in the NFL's first divisional playoff game in 1941.
1057	The Bears made the playoffs in 1994 after finishing fourth in the NFL Central Division.
1058	The Bears have played preseason games in Canada, England, Sweden, Germany and Ireland.
1059	The Bears changed the "C" on their helmets from white to orange in 1973.
1060	The Bears added the initials "GSH" to the left sleeve in 1984, in honor of their late coach George S. Halas.
1061	In 1920, the vertical stripes on the Bears jerseys were strips of leather used to help the players secure the ball.
1062	The Bears changed their jersey colors to navy and orange in 1958.
1063	The Bears are known by the Pro Football Hall of Fame as having the last player to play without a helmet.
1064	The Bears' team colors, orange and navy, were selected after those of the University of Illinois.
1065	The Chicago Bears fight song, "Bear Down, Chicago Bears" was introduced in 1941.
1066	The Bears have come back to win the game with 20-point deficits twice since the 1980s - 1987 at Tampa Bay and in 2006 at Arizona.
1067	The Chicago Bears have opened the season with a win 54 times, the most in the NFL.
1068	The Chicago Bears have selected more players out of the University of Notre Dame than any other school.
1069	The Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals played football's first indoor game on December 15, 1930.
1070	The Chicago Bears unveiled their Famous T-formation in a 73-0 win over Washington for the NFL title in 1940.
1071	The Bears' last game at Wrigley Field was a 35-15 win over Green Bay on Dec. 13, 1970.
1072	The Bears' first game at Soldier Field was a 17-15 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 19, 1971.
1073	The Bears have held training camp in 3 different states - Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
1074	The Bears' first training camp held away from their facilities was hosted by the Univesity of Notre Dame in 1933.
1075	The Bears held training camp at Lane Tech High in Chicago in 1934.
1076	The Bears moved their training camp St. John's Military Academy in Delafield, WI in 1935.
1077	The Bears and Packers agreed their playoff game should be played to a "sudden death" finish in the event of a tie in 1941.
1078
1079	The Bears opened training camp at Lake Forest College in 1975.
1080	In their 1000th game in franchise history on October 3rd, 1993, the Bears defeated Atlanta.
1081	The Bears moved their training camp to UW-Platteville in 1984.
1082	The Bears opened training camp at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL in 2002.
1083	The Bears played all of their home games in 2002 at the University of Illinois while Soldier Field was under construction.
1084	The number 42 has only been worn by one Bears player.
1085	87 players who have played for the Bears, have also played high school football in Illinois.
1086	Evanston High School has produced the most Bears players out of any high school in Illinois (5).
1087	Twenty players by the last name of "Johnson" or "Williams"' have played for the Bears - more than any other last name.
1088	Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
1089
1090	Unlike many fruits, strawberries don't continue to ripen after being picked.
1091
1092	Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you’ll soon fall in love.
1093
1094	If all the strawberries produced in California in one year were laid berry to berry, they'd go around the world 15 times.
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1098
1099
1100	Mint comes in over 30 varieties.
1101
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1103
1104	Mint has been found in Egyptian tombs from as far back as 1000 B.C.
1105	In ancient Greece, the strawberry was a symbol for Venus, the Goddess of Love.
1106
1107	Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
1108
1109
1110
1111	Strawberries at room temperature are sweeter than cold strawberries.
1112	There are over 10 million bricks in The Empire State Building.
1113	Earth, Texas, is the only place on Earth named Earth.
1114
1115
1116	Apple pie was adopted as Vermont's official state pie in 1999.
1117
1118
1119	The Grand Canyon could hold about 900 trillion footballs.
1120
1121	There was an amendment proposed in 1893 to rename the U.S. the "United States of the Earth."
1122	The largest free-flying American flag in the world is 90 feet long by 60 feet wide.
1123
1124	Mt. Rushmore cost less than $1 million dollars to complete.
1125
1126
1127	The Star Spangled Banner was first played during the 1918 World Series and became the official national anthem in 1931.
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1131
1132
1133	Only 12 U.S. presidents have been elected to office for two terms and served those two terms.
1134	Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office for four terms prior to the 22nd Amendment.
1135	John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected president, and Ronald Reagan, at 73, the oldest.
1136	James Buchanan is the only bachelor to be elected president.
1137	Eight presidents have died while in office.
1138	President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III but took his stepfather’s last name when his mother remarried.
1139	Prior to the 12th Amendment in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second highest number of electoral votes was vice president.
1140	George Washington was a successful liquor distributor, making rye whiskey, apple brandy, and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery.
1141	Thomas Jefferson and John Adams chipped off a piece of Shakespeare's chair as a souvenir when they visited his home in 1786.
1142	George Washington started losing his permanent teeth in his 20s and had only one natural tooth by the time he was president.
1143	George Washington had false teeth made from many different materials, including an elephant tusk and hippopotamus ivory.
1144	Astronauts can vote from space.
1145	John Quincy Adams regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River.
1146	Calvin Coolidge was so shy he was nicknamed “Silent Cal.”
1147	Calvin Coolidge loved to wear a cowboy hat and ride his mechanical horse.
1148	“Hooverball,” a cross between volleyball and tennis using a medicine ball, was invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician to keep Hoover fit.
1149	Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, many of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel.
1150	Martin Van Buren's nickname was "Old Kinderhook" because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y.
1151	James Buchanan bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.
1152	Abraham Lincoln was only defeated once out of about 300 wrestling matches, making it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with honors as "Outstanding American."
1153	In his youth, President Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor.
1154	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.
1155	Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.
1156	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.
1157	William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good luck charm.
1158	Herbert Hoover's son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.
1159	Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it “the darndest thing I’ve ever seen.”
1160	In 1940, the University of California bestowed Ronald Reagan with the Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure Award.
1161	Bill Clinton's face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models.
1162	In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
1163	Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office.
1164	Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency of the United States in 1872.
1165	James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.
1166	There are only three eligibility requirements to become U.S. president: must be 35, a natural-born U.S. citizen and resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years.
1167	To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds.
1168	Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone, and his phone number was extremely easy to remember – it was simply “1.”
1169	Martin Van Buren was the first president born a U.S. citizen; all presidents before him were British.
1170	Andrew Jackson's pet parrot "Poll" was removed from his funeral for cursing.
1171	Teddy bears get their name from President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, who once refused to shoot a black bear.
1172	There has never been a U.S. president whose name started with the common letter S.
1173	Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender.
1174	Barack Obama is named the 44th president, but is the 43rd person to hold office because Grover Cleveland had two separate terms.
1175	Four times in U.S history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election.
1176	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.
1177	November was chosen to be election month because it fell between harvest and brutal winter weather.
1178	Six of the last 12 U.S. presidents have been left-handed, far greater than the national average of lefties at 10%.
1179	William Henry Harrison owned a pet goat while in office.
1180	John Adams had a horse named Cleopatra.
1181	James Madison had a pet parrot who outlived both him and his wife.
1182	John Quincy Adams' wife raised silkworms.
1183	Martin Van Buren was given two tiger cubs while he was president.
1184	William Harrison had a billy goat at the White House.
1185	Franklin Pierce was gifted two small "sleeve dogs" – he kept one and gave the other to Jefferson Davis.
1186	Abraham Lincoln's son had a pet turkey, which he gave a pardon so it wasn't killed and eaten.
1187	James Garfield had a dog appropriately named Veto.
1188	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.
1189	Calvin Coolidge had a bulldog named Boston Beans, a terrier named Peter Pan, and a pet raccoon.
1190	John Kennedy had a pony named Macaroni.
1191	Lyndon Johnson had 2 beagles named Him and Her which he was criticized for picking them up by their ears.
1192	Jimmy Carter had a dog named Grits, a gift given to his daughter Amy.
1193	Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, which was the first presidential pet to have its own website.
1194	Woodrow Wilson passed Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school; he also held a PhD.
1195	President Zachary Taylor's nickname was "Old Rough and Ready" because of his famed war career.
1196	Andrew Jackson was once given a 1,400 pound cheese wheel as a gift, which he served at his outgoing President's Reception.
1197	Blueberry jelly beans were created for Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration in 1981.
1198	Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Texas-born president.
1199	Lyndon Johnson's family all had the initials LBJ.
1200	Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get sick.
1201	Gerald Ford worked as a fashion model during college and actually appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.
1202	Dwight Eisenhower was the only U.S. president to serve in both World War I and World War II.
1203	Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
1204	Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed, believing it was good for his health.
1205	A portion of Grover Cleveland's jaw was artificial, composed of vulcanized rubber.
1206	Russia and the United States are less than 3 miles apart.
1207	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July in 1826.
1208	Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido was the first "First Dog" to be photographed.
1209	President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs: Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
1210	President Rutherford B. Hayes' cat Siam was the first Siamese cat in the U.S.
1211	President John Quincy Adams' pet alligator lived in a White House bathroom.
1212	First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote, "If you love me...you must love my dog."
1213	John Adams' pets Satan & Juno were the first dogs to live in the White House.
1214	Calvin Coolidge walked pet raccoon Rebecca on a leash around the White House.
1215	More U.S. presidents have had pet birds than cats.
1216	Thomas Jefferson's pet mockingbird was trained to eat out of his mouth.
1217	Spotty Bush, an English Springer Spaniel, has been the only presidential pet to live at the White House during two different administrations.
1218	Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride on a railroad train.
1219	Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to wear pants in public.
1220	First Lady Martha Washington was the first American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
1221	When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
1222	Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.
1223	Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state, bordered by 8 states.
1224	The cotton candy machine was invented in 1897, by a dentist.
1225	You can’t hum while plugging your nose.
1226	Elephants are afraid of bees.
1227	They used to offer goat carriage rides in Central Park.
1228	Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
1229	Monday is the only day of the week with an anagram: dynamo.
1230	The only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere is on display in Fort Worth, TX.
1231	Humans are 1-2 centimeters taller in the morning than at night.
1232	Baby giraffes fall up to 6 feet to the ground when they are born.
1233	It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.
1234	The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
1235	A bald eagle nest can weigh up to two tons.
1236	Worrying squirrels is not tolerated in Missouri.
1237	Wombat droppings are cube-shaped.
1238	Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
1239	Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg.
1240	There are more nerve connections or "synapses" in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy.
1241	There are more English words beginning with the letter "S" than any other letter.
1242	There are more fake than real flamingos.
1243	The word “bride” comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning “to cook.”
1244	The word utopia – an ideal place – ironically comes from a Greek word meaning “no place.”
1245	Los Angeles was originally founded as El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.
1246	The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.
1247	Nine-banded armadillos almost always give birth to four identical quadruplets.
1248	Jellyfish don’t have brains.
1249	Jellyfish can clone themselves.
1250	The koala is the longest-sleeping animal, sleeping an average of 22 hours per day.
1251	Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.
1252	The city of Chicago was raised by over a foot during the 1850s and ’60s without disrupting daily life.
1253	Red kangaroos can hop up to 44 mph.
1254	Arkansas has the only active diamond mine in the United States.
1255	Robert Heft, who designed the current U.S. flag in a high school project, received a B- because it "lacked originality."
1256	The first 18-hole golf course in America was built on a sheep farm in 1892.
1257	Most newborns will lose all the hair they are born with in the first six months of life.
1258	Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
1259	Coconut water was used as an IV drip in WWII when saline solution was in short supply.
1260	Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
1261	Peanuts are not actually nuts but legumes.
1262	The Oscar statuette is brittanium plated with 24K gold.
1263	The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.
1264	There is a star that is a diamond of ten billion trillion trillion carats.
1265	One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring 50 miles.
1266	A $100,000 bill exists, but was only used by Federal Reserve Banks.
1267	10 million bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.
1268	One quarter of all the body’s bones are in the feet.
1269	Lake Havasu City, AZ, has been recorded as the hottest city in the U.S. with average summer temperatures of 94.6.
1270	Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.
1271	One of the first sunscreens was sold in the 1910s under the name Zeozon.
1272	In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
1273	The largest bill ever issued by the U.S. was a $100,000 bill in 1934.
1274	Kickball is referred to as “soccer-baseball” in some parts of Canada.
1275	Less than 1% of Sweden’s household waste ends up in a dump.
1276	Duck Duck Goose is called Duck Duck Grey Duck in Minnesota.
1277	There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
1278	Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.
1279	A city in Greece struggles to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.
1280	Elvis was a natural blonde.
1281	On Venus, it snows metal.
1282	Eating 600 bananas is the equivalent of one chest X-ray in terms of radiation.
1283	The potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space.
1284	The average dog can understand over 150 words.
1285	At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.
1286	Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
1287	Blueberries are also called “star berries.”
1288	There are more varieties of blueberries than states in the U.S.
1289	Typically, blueberries become ripe after 2-5 weeks on a bush.
1290	Love blueberries. Celebrate them all year round, but especially in July, National Blueberry Month.
1291	While blueberries grow in clusters on their bush, the individual blueberries ripen at different times.
1292	The first commercial batch of blueberries came from Whitesbog, New Jersey, in 1916.
1293	The perfect blueberry should be “dusty” in color.
1294	Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
1295	75% of the U.S.’s tart cherries come from Michigan.
1296	Traverse, MI, considers itself the Cherry Capital of the World.
1297	Once cherries have been picked, they don’t ripen.
1298	Make sure to eat a chocolate-covered cherry on January 3; it’s National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day.
1299	On average, how many cherries are in a pound? 44.
1300	The word “cherry” comes from the Turkish town of Cerasus.
1301	A cherry pie is made of about 250 cherries.
1302	Eau Claire, Michigan, is known as “The Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.”
1303	The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
1304	North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only one country.
1305	Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
1306	Emergency phone number in Europe is 112.
1307	Canada's postal code for Santa Claus at the North Pole is H0H 0H0.
1308	Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
1309	In New Zealand, it is illegal to name your twin babies "Fish" and "Chips."
1310	Chocolate bars and blue denim both originated in Guatemala.
1311	In New Zealand, parents have to run baby names by the government for approval.
1312	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.
1313	Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.
1314	No one in Greece can choose not to vote; voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.
1315	Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
1316	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.
1317	There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly five types of clicks.
1318	An African elephant can turn the pages of a book with its trunk.
1319	Ancient Egyptians slept on head rests made of wood, ivory, or stone.
1320	A traffic jam once lasted for 11 days in Beijing, China.
1321	Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
1322	The blue in the Sistine Chapel is made of ground lapis lazuli gems and oils.
1323	The Bridge of Eggs built in Lima, Peru, was made of mortar that was mixed with egg whites.
1324	In South Korea, you are one year old at birth.
1325	The Great Wall of China is 13,170.7 miles long, over five times the distance from LA to NYC.
1326	The horizontal line between two numbers in a fraction is called a vinculum.
1327	The metal ring on the end of a pencil is called a ferrule.
1328	You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.
1329	There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.
1330	Lake Hillier, in Western Australia, is colored a bright pink.
1331	Spiked dog collars were invented by the Ancient Greeks, who used them on their sheepdogs to protect their necks from wolves.
1332	Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. is a grammatically correct sentence.
1333	On Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds.
1334	Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
1335	There are only 18 minutes of total action in a baseball game.
1336	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.
1337	Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
1338	Tomatoes have more genes than humans.
1339	In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.
1340	Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.
1341	A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.
1342	You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
1343	French poodles actually originated in Germany.
1344	Marine mammals swim by moving their tails up and down, while fish swim by moving their tails left and right.
1345	“Knocker uppers” were professionals paid to shoot peas at windows. They were replaced by alarm clocks.
1346	An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T. rexes.
1347	Clicking your computer mouse 1,400 times burns one calorie.
1348	Guy was once an insult for anyone dressed in poor clothes, originating from the burning of effigies of the infamous British rebel, Guy Fawkes.
1349	The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
1350	The tea bag was created by accident in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.
1351	The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.
1352	A group of frogs is called an army.
1353	Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear.
1354	You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.
1355	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.
1356	The world's largest mountain range is under the sea.
1357	The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.
1358	Below the Kalahari Desert lies the world's largest underground lake.
1359	Oregon and Mexico once shared a border.
1360	Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Scandinavian king.
1361	A nun held one of the first PhDs in computer science.
1362	For 67 years, Nintendo only produced playing cards.
1363	The ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes.
1364	A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.
1365	Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.
1366	In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.
1367	Every tweet Americans send is archived by the Library of Congress.
1368	A neuron star is as dense as stuffing 50 million elephants into a thimble.
1369	More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
1370	An earthquake in 1812 caused the Mississippi River to flow backward.
1371	In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs was still paying a Civil War pension.
1372	In Webster's Dictionary, the longest words without repeating letters are “uncopyrightable” and “dermatoglyphics.”
1373	“Unprosperousness” is the longest word in which no letter occurs only once.
1374	“Typewriter” and “perpetuity” are the longest words that can be typed on a single line of a QWERTY keyboard.
1375	There have been three Olympic games held in countries that no longer exist.
1376	Golf is the only sport to be played on the moon.
1377	The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase meaning "the king is dead."
1378	The brain is the only organ in the human body without pain receptors.
1379	There is a volcano on Mars the size of Arizona.
1380	The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometers away.
1381	Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human’s.
1382	A housefly hums in the key of F.
1383	Venus is the only planet in the solar system where the sun rises in the west.
1384	The state animal of Tennessee is a raccoon.
1385	If you were to stretch out a Slinky until it’s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.
1386	It's illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia because of its intelligence.
1387	There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.
1388	Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
1389	Fires spread faster uphill than downhill.
1390	The Florida Everglades is the only place in the world where both alligators and crocodiles live together.
1391	Newborns can't cry actual tears. This normally occurs between 3 weeks and 3 months of life.
1392	If you could drive your car upward, you would be in space in less than an hour.
1393	The sun is actually white, but the Earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.
1394	The Earth rotates at a speed of 1,040 MPH.
1395	Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
1396	The word "aegilops" is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.
1397	Gorillas burp when they are happy.
1398	Because of metal prices, since 2006 the U.S. Mint has had to spend more to make a penny than they are worth.
1399	Never odd or even spelled backward is still "Never odd or even."
1400	In Alabama, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.
1401	Alaska is the most northern, western, and eastern U.S. state.
1402	In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.
1403	A group of raccoons is called a gaze.
1404	Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
1405	Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.
1406	The vertical distance between the Earth's highest and lowest points is about 12 miles.
1407	A flock of crows is known as a murder.
1408	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.
1409	Over 80% of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.
1410	There are more people on Facebook today than there were on the Earth 200 years ago.
1411	There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.
1412
1413	"Thursday" is named in honor of the Norse god, Thor.
1414
1415	Mangoes have noses.
1416	Mangoes can get sunburned.
1417	Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.
1418	The shortest professional baseball player was 3 feet, 7 inches tall.
1419	The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.
1420	The most valuable baseball card ever is worth about $2.8 million.
1421	The paisley pattern is based on the mango.
1422	In India, mango leaves are used to celebrate the birth of a boy.
1423	A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
1424	When sprinting, professional cyclists produce enough power to power a home.
1425	Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
1426	During a typical MLB season, approximately 160,000 baseballs are used.
1427	The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.
1428	The British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use.
1429	The Great Lakes have more than 30,000 islands.
1430	Mountain lions can whistle.
1431	While rabbits have near-perfect 360-degree panoramic vision, their most critical blind spot is directly in front of their nose.
1432	When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.
1433	Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.
1434	There have been 85 recorded instances of a pitcher striking out four batters in one inning.
1435	3.7 million bags of ballpark peanuts are eaten every year at ballparks.
1436	Shakespeare created the name Jessica for his play "The Merchant of Venice."
1437	Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.
1438	The mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II has a passport.
1439	It is physically impossible for a pig to look at the sky.
1440	There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
1441	A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.
1442	A shrimp's heart is in its head.
1443	A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
1444	Light could travel around the earth nearly 7.5 times in one second.
1445	A single lightning bolt contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
1446	About one in every 2,000 babies is born with teeth.
1447	Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
1448	Less than 5% of the population needs just 4-5 hours of sleep.
1449	Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.
1450	Astronauts can't burp in space.
1451	An Immaculate Inning is when a pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches.
1452	Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god.
1453	Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.
1454	In the 1960s, the U.S. government tried to turn a cat into a spy.
1455	Movie trailers used to come on at the end of movies, but no one stuck around to watch them.
1456	MLB umpires often wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.
1457	It is possible to record four outs in one-half inning of baseball.
1458	There are nine different ways to reach first base.
1459	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."
1460	Philadelphia zookeeper Jim Murray sent baseball scores to telegraph offices by carrier pigeon every half inning in 1883.
1461	From 1845 through 1867, home base was circular, made of iron, painted or enameled white, and 12 inches in diameter.
1462	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.
1463	Thunder is actually the sound caused by lightning.
1464	Australia is wider than the moon.
1465	85% of people only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
1466	An albatross can sleep while it flies.
1467	In a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday.
1468	Bubble wrap was originally invented as a wallpaper in 1957.
1469	There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.
1470	Of the 193 members of the United Nations, Britain has invaded 171 of them.
1471	The Apollo 11 guidance computer was no more powerful than today's pocket calculator.
1472	“Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” is the technical name for brain freeze.
1473	Earth is actually located inside the sun's atmosphere.
1474	The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.
1475	If you drilled a hole through the earth, it would take 42 minutes to fall through it.
1476	The planet 55 Cancri e is made of diamonds and would be worth $26.9 nonillion.
1477	France used the guillotine as recently as 1977.
1478	Sloths move so slow that algae can grow on them.
1479	Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.
1480	Michelangelo hated painting and wrote a poem about it.
1481	The dwarf lantern shark grows to be no bigger than a human hand.
1482	"Tools of ignorance" is a nickname for the equipment worn by catchers.
1483	More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical MLB game.
1484	Pitchers were prohibited from delivering the ball overhand for much of the 19th century.
1485	Walks were scored as hits during the 1887 season.
1486	A regulation baseball has 108 stitches.
1487	A "can of corn" is a routine fly ball hit to an outfielder.
1488	Baseball is played in more than 100 countries.
1489	“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.
1490	A baseball pitcher’s curveball can break up to 17 inches.
1491	MLB baseballs are rubbed in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud, a unique mud found only near Palmyra, New Jersey.
1492	The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 30,000 baseball cards as part of the Jefferson R. Burdick collection.
1493	William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the U.S., began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910.
1494	MLB National League (1876) is the oldest professional sports league that is still in existence.
1495	The first modern-day World Series game was played in 1903.
1496	The Mendoza Line is a .200 batting average.
1497	There are 13 different pitches a pitcher can throw in baseball.
1498	The first MLB All-Star Game was played in 1933.
1499	A player was once ejected from an MLB game for sleeping during the game.
1500	Baseball hits that bounced over the fence were considered home runs until the 1930s.
1501	The most home runs ever recorded in an MLB season is 73.
1502	The highest batting average ever recorded in an MLB season is .440.
1503	MLB has not had a lefty play catcher since 1989.
1504	The longest MLB game went 26 innings.
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1508	Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.
1509	An avocado is actually a large berry.
1510	There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
1511	It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.
1512	The Cookie Monster's real first name is Sid.
1513
1514	In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
1515
1516	Scotland has 421 words for snow.
1517
1518
1519	Octopuses think with their tentacles.
1520	Jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving.
1521	The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.
1522	Some cats are allergic to humans.
1523
1524
1525	The tiny pocket in jeans was made for pocket watches.
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1536	Two of Snapple’s founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
1537	One of Snapple’s original founders ran a sardine and pickle store in Queens with his family.
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1545
1546
1547	The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
1548
1549
1550	Ants won’t cross a chalk line.
1551	Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios.
1552	Banana trees are actually herbs.
1553	"Donut Towns" are towns that are completely surrounded by other towns.
1554	Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
1555	Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.
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1557
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1559
1560	You can start a fire with ice.
1561	The fire hydrant patent was ironically destroyed in a fire.
1562	Cotton can catch fire with enough super glue applied.
1563	Blue flames are the hottest, reaching temps up to 3,000 degrees Celsius.
1564	Large rain drops can fall at speeds of 20 mph.
1565	Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.
1566	A fire will burn faster moving uphill than downhill.
1567	Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.
1568	Fire's alchemy symbol is a triangle, resembling a campfire.
1569	The alchemy symbol for water is an inverted triangle, resembling a cup or glass.
1570	No rain fell in Iquique, Chile, for 14 years.
1571	Denver sits at 5,280 feet elevation (1 mile above sea level).
1572	Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
1573	Earth is the only known planet where fire occurs.
1574	Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth.
1575	Oxygen supply influences the color of a fire's flame.
1576	Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.
1577	About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.
1578	Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.
1579	The average raindrop takes 2 minutes to hit the ground.
1580	Ocean algae produces about 75 percent of the world's oxygen.
1581	Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
1582	A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.
1583	Pressurized plane cabin air is the same average humidity of the Sahara Desert.
1584	Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
1585	The air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
1586	The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.
1587	Earth's sky is purple, our eyes just see it as blue.
1588	The fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
1589	A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
1590	Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.
1591	The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
1592	The average raindrop weighs less than an eyelash.
1593	The water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
1594	Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.
1595	Kangaroos cannot jump without their tails touching the ground.
1596	Birds can sleep with one eye open.
1597	A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
1598	Elevenses is a break for light refreshments taken at 11AM in England.
1599	A man once ate an entire airplane—it took him 2 years.
1600	The longest alphabet has 74 letters.
1601	A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
1602	In 2015, the Oxford word of the year was the tears of joy emoji.
1603	"just setting up my twttr" was the first ever tweet.
1604	Tomatoes are considered both fruits and vegetables—the answer depends on whom you ask.
1605	A suction cup will not work in outer space.
1606	Before emojis, there were emoticons, which are icons created from keyboard characters.
1607	In the 1800s, Cadbury created the first heart-shaped chocolate box.
1608	Early tales of leprechauns reported red clothing.
1609	The color of a chicken's earlobe is a good indicator of the color of the eggshell it will lay.
1610	The summer solstice marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.
1611	The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.
1612	Labor Day is the unofficial end of hot dog season.
1613	Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
1614	An AA battery with no charge remaining will not bounce when dropped.
1615	The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
1616	Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
1617	People don't sneeze in their sleep.
1618	Platypuses are venomous.
1619	Asparagus can grow up to 7 inches in a day.
1620	There are over 2,500 apple varieties grown in the U.S.
1621	You can tell what a narwhal has eaten each year based on the layers of its tusk.
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1623	The dragon fruit cactus only blooms at night.
1624	The first flight traveled at less than 7 mph (ground speed).
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1626	Before tennis rackets were invented in the 1600s, players used the palms of their hands to play.
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1630	San Francisco locals refer to the city's notorious fog as "Karl the Fog".
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1638	The Summer Solstice (June 21) is the longest day of the year with about 16 hours and 38 minutes of daylight.
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1647	The Metaverse got its name from the 1992 novel Snow Crash.
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1650	Surgeons that regularly play video games make 37% fewer errors.
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1659
1660	Lemons are a cross between a citron and a sour orange.
1661	Lemon juice can be used as invisible ink that can be revealed with heat.
1662
1663	The difference between college and pro footballs are the stripes on the end. Pro footballs don’t have stripes.
1664
1665	Candy Corn was originally called "Chicken Feed."
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1667	The fear of Halloween is called Samhainophobia.
1668	The first jack-o-lantern was made of turnip, not pumpkin.
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1672	Candy corn was originally called "Chicken Feed."
1673	Turkeys have 270 degree eyesight.
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1681	Ants don't have lungs, they take in oxygen through tiny holes all over the body called spiracles.
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1684	Garden snails have around 14,000 teeth.
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1691	Fingernails grow 2-3 times faster than toenails.
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1693	Eggplants are actually a berry.
1694	Astronauts at the International Space Station see 16 sunrises and sunsets every day.
1695	You have enough blood vessels to circle the Earth 2.5 times.
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1700	France has the most time zones of any country (12).
1701	Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
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1707	Rhinos can run up to 35 mph.
1708	Cats typically meow to communicate with humans, not other cats.
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1712	Ships float higher in salt water than in fresh water.
1713
1714	Banana peels can be used to polish shoes.
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1717	A group of flies is called a 'business'.
1718	People born on a Leap Day are sometimes called 'leaplings'.
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1723	If we could hear the Sun, it would create a deep, constant roar.
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1728	Yellow is the most visible color in darkness, which is one reason why taxis are often yellow.
1729
1730	Birds can sleep while flying.
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1732	Hockey pucks are frozen before games to reduce bouncing.
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1739	It will be over 20 years until the next total solar eclipse in the continental U.S.
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1741	Astronauts are weightless in space because they are in free fall, not from a lack of gravity.
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1746	Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
1747	Mangoes are related to poison ivy.
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1772	Platypuses have no stomachs.
1773	Popcorn kernels can pop up to 3 feet in the air.
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1777	Every Shih Tzu alive today can be traced to one of 14 dogs.
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1787	No two sunsets are the same.
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1790	Golf balls were once made of a leather pouch stuffed with feathers.
1791	February used to be the last month of the year.
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1793	In medieval Europe, animals were often taken to court and tried for various crimes.
1794	Venus fly traps are only found natively in the US in North and South Carolina.
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1796	Sunsets on Mars are blue.
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1798	Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia' is the fear of long words.
1799	In some cases, hot water freezes faster than cold water.
1800	Pigeon droppings are the property of the British royal family.
1801	'Karaoke' is Japanese for 'empty orchestra'.
1802	Nebraska is the only state that is triply landlocked.
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1804	Talkeetna, Alaska had a cat as mayor for 20 years.
1805	Atlanta, TX is closer to Atlanta, GA than El Paso TX.
1806	Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter.
1807	No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.
1808	The lighter was invented before the match.
1809	There is a fence in Australia as long as the distance from NYC to London.
1810	Dogs sniff good smells with their left nostril.
1811	Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
1812	Shadows are darker on the Moon.
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1814	The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
1815	Ants can survive in a microwave because they are smaller than the wavelength of radiation.
1816	An animal's yawn is based on how large their brain is. The bigger the brain, the longer the yawn.
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1819	A single strand of spaghetti is called a 'spaghetto.'
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1821	All narwhal horns spiral in the same direction.
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1823	The Netherlands has a squirrel bridge.
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1830	Humans are the only animals with chins.
1831	The average college football game lasts 3 hours and 22 minutes.
1832	It's illegal to build sandcastles at certain beaches in Spain.
1833	The cornea is the only part of the body that doesn't have a blood supply. It gets oxygen directly from the air.
1834	The world's largest waterfall is underwater.
1835	The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is ironically a palindrome.
1836	Orca whales are one of only a handful of natural predators of the moose.
1837	The Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships are held in Finland.
1838	Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards.
1839	The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac.
1840	You can be allergic to cold weather.
1841	The Leaning Tower of Pisa was never straight.
1842	The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
1843	A group of pandas is called an embarassment.
1844	Michigan is home to the only floating post office.
1845	"Wi-Fi" is not short for anything.
1846	The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "mickeys".
1847	During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes" that left hoofprints to evade police.
1848	Tsundoku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them.
1849	The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses to identify damages, but instead, residents wrote them love letters.
1850	A tiny town in Spain literally lives under a rock, as the homes are built into the rock.
1851	A flock of ravens is called an "unkindness".
1852	The Eiffel Tower was originally offered to Barcelona, but they turned it down.
1853	September was originally the 7th month of the year, and "septem" is the Latin word for seven.
1854	There are parts of Africa in all four hemispheres.
1855	Water makes different pouring sounds depending on its temperature.
1856	The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and takes 3.5 hours to pronounce.
1857	Researchers in California taught a sea lion to dance to a beat.
1858	In Germany, citizens volunteer to help toads cross the road.
1859	Some sloths have more neck bones than giraffes.
1860	During WWI, soldiers used a terrier named Rags to communicate between divisions when shellfire damaged the telephone wires.
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1862	The first stroller was engineered to be pulled by a goat or small pony.
1863	In 2010, over 150 bottles of 170-year old champagne were found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea in near perfect condition.
1864	The average career length of an NFL player is just 3.3 years.
1865	The first person convicted of speeding was going eight miles per hour.
1866	The moon has moonquakes.
1867	Bees occasionally sting other bees.
1868	Bulls are partially colorblind and cannot see red.
1869	Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween.
1870	The first known use of the phrase "trick-or-treat" occurred in the 1920s.
1871	Cats can't taste anything sweet.
1872	World Smile Day, the first Friday of October, was created by the artist behind the iconic yellow smiley-face.
1873	More than 30 million pounds of candy corn are sold each year.
1874	Messages from the human brain travel along nerves at up to 200 miles an hour.
1875	Leaving a party without telling anyone is often called a "French Exit" or an "Irish Goodbye."
1876	There is an active volcano in Colorado that last erupted as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
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1878	Redwoods are the tallest trees, reaching over 360 feet.
1879	The word astronaut comes from the Ancient Greek words "Astro" ("star") and "naut" ("sailor"), so it literally means "star sailor."
1880	The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called "phosphenes."
1881	At birth, a giant panda is as small as a kitten.
1882	Service dogs emerged during World War I, when dogs were trained to assist soldiers.
1883	An 11-year-old girl proposed the name of the (former) planet Pluto, after the Roman god of the Underworld.
1884	There is an island called "Just Room Enough," where there's just enough room for a tree and a house.
1885	There is an underwater version of rugby, unsurprisingly, called "underwater rugby."
1886	Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
1887	Fall has an actual smell, caused by trees shedding their leaves.
1888	The sound of leaves rustling in the wind has a name: Psithurism.
1889	A "griggle" is an apple left on the tree because it's too small to pick.
1890	Heat weakens a magnet's magnetism.
1891	The first professional football games on Thanksgiving were played November 25, 1920.
1892	The average American gains one pound between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
1893	There are two towns in the U.S. named "Turkey."
1894	Minnesota raises the most turkeys in the U.S.
1895	Scientists discovered sharks living in an underwater volcano but cannot investigate due to the acidity & heat.
1896	The tradition of playing football on Thanksgiving originated with college football in 1876.
1897	The first Thanksgiving took place in 1621.
1898	The first x-ray was invented in Germany in November 1895.
1899	For many years, Monowi, NE had a population of one. She was the Mayor, bartender and librarian.
1900	Red squirrels make mushroom jerky to prepare for the winter.
1901	The oldest unopened bottle of wine was found in a Roman tomb that is over 1,650 years old.
1902	Chickadees' brains swell during fall to help them remember where seeds are buried.
1903	Apple cider is the official state beverage of New Hampshire.
1904	The first game of American football was played on November 6, 1869.
1905	Dingoes have rotating wrists allowing them to open doors.
1906	Gummy bears were originally called "dancing bears."
1907	Black Friday was once called Big Friday.
1908	Swedish meatballs originated from a recipe brought back from Turkey in the 18th century.
1909	Elephants sing as loudly as a chainsaw, but at a frequency too low for humans to hear.
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1911	The ten highest mountain summits in the United States are all located in Alaska.
1912	The most expensive book ever purchased was sold for over $30 million.
1913	The first known game of basketball was played on December 21, 1891.
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1916	The first Nobel Prizes were awarded on December 10, 1901.
1917	There must be pollen or dust in the air for snow to form.
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1919	There is a hotel in Sweden made of ice that is re-sculpted each winter.
1920	Reindeer migrate more milage than any other land animal.
1921	The rare thundersnow occurs when a snowstorm has both thunder and lightning.
1922	All mammals get goosebumps.
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1924	Originally, candy canes were only white, and they didn't have the bend.
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1926	Sketches of the helicopter date back as early as 400 B.C.