Fact # | "Real Fact" |
1-25
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2 | Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons |
6 | A honey bee can fly at 15 miles per hour |
7 | A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day |
9 | The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 miles an hour |
18 | A jellyfish is 95% water |
24 | The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses |
26-50
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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 |
47 | Giraffes have no vocal chords |
48 | Cats can hear ultrasound |
51-75
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58 | A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour |
61 | Pigs can get a sunburn |
66 | Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza everyday |
71 | There is a town called Big Ugly, West Virginia |
76-100
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76 | The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime |
101-125
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110 | Frogs never drink |
111 | Only male turkeys gobble. |
112 | At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white. |
113 | The fastest recorded 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. |
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. |
126-150
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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 fruit whose seeds grow on the outside. |
137 | The city of Los Angeles has 3x more automobiles than people. |
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 largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons. |
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. |
150 | The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894. |
151-175
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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. |
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. |
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. |
171 | The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and fingertips. |
175 | In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland. |
176-200
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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. |
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 pizzarias in the U.S. |
188 | Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest and highest continent on earth. |
190 | Thailand means "Land of the Free." |
200-400
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245 | The first typewriter was called the "literary piano." |
256 | There are more saunas than cars in Finland. |
282 | If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west. |
296 | In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl. |
324 | The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down. |
326 | On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects. |
337 | Farmington, Maine, celebrates Chester Greenwood Day to honor the inventor of earmuffs. |
350 | The watersheds that supply water to New York City are roughly the size of Delaware. |
353 | The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons. |
355 | A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm. |
383 | Mt. Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning. |