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#1
A goldfish�s attention span is three seconds.
#4
Slugs have 4 noses.
#10
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
#13
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
#21
Almonds are members of the peach family.
#22
Alaska has the highest percentage of people that walk to work.
#24
The state of Maine has 62 light houses.
#25
The only food that doesn�t spoil is honey.
#26
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
#29
On average, a human being will spend 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.
#30
Fish have eyelids.
#32
There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.
#36
A duck�s quack doesn�t echo.
#40
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs.
#43
A cat�s lower jaw cannot move sideways.
#44
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
#46
Elephants are the only mammals that can�t jump.
#47
Giraffes have no vocal chords.
#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.
#57
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
#58
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.
#61
Pigs can get a sunburn.
#64
Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.
#66
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.
#68
The longest one-syllable word is �screeched�.
#70
Caller ID is illegal in California.
#75
The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
#78
Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.
#84
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
#85
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
#88
A ten gallon hat holds less than a gallon liquid.
#90
The average raindrop falls at seven miles per hour.
#93
Kangaroo can jump 30 feet.
#96
The average American will eat 35,000 cookies during his/her lifetime.
#98
When the moon is directly overhead you weigh slightly less.
#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.
#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 3 times more automobiles than people.
#138
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
#139
Hawaii is the only state with one school district.
#140
Holland is the only country with a national dog.
#141
The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.
#142
Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.
#143
�Q� is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.
#144
Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.
#145
Lake Superior is the world�s largest lake.
#146
The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.
#147
Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.
#148
The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.
#149
Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.
#150
The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
#151
The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 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 alternative title that has been considered for NBC�s hit �Friends,� was �Insomnia Caf�.�
#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 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.
#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.
#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.
#190
Thailand means �Land of the Free.�