| 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. |