2. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
3. The volume of the moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
4. The word, "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
5. The state with the most coastline is Michigan.
6. The longest US highway is Route 6, starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California.
7. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
8. If you toss a penny 10000 times, it will not be heads about 5000 times, but more like 4950. The heads side weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom more.
9. The housefly hums in the middle octave.
10. Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.
11. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Pociuncula" and can be abbreviated to one-thirtieth the size, "L.A."
12. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
13. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
14. The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.
15. Al Capone's buisness card said he was a used furniture dealer.
16. Grapes explode when you bake them in a microwave.
17. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
18. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
19. When the Nebraska Cornhuskers play a home game, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
20. Dragonflies have a lifespan of 24 hours.
21. Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds.
22. A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge.
23. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
24. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
25. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
26. Maine is the toothpick capitol of the world.
27. A baby eel is called an elver. A baby oyster is called a spat.
28. Bingo is the name of the dog on a Cracker Jack box.
29. A giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
30. A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile.
31. The Philadelphia mint produces 26 million pennies daily.
32. A lightning bolt generates temperatures 5 times hotter than those on the surface of the sun.
33. It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be reused for a VERY long time.
34. Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada.
35. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
36. Over 2,500 left-handed people a year are killed by using products made for right-handed people.
37. There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
38. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100th of a second.
39. Porcupines float in water.
40. The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.