what are some of the good ones you guys have got?
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what are some of the good ones you guys have got?
#2 Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons
#3 Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
#4 Slugs have 4 noses
#5 Camels have 3 eyelids
#6 A honey bee can fly at 15mph
#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 mph
#10 Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas
#11 Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
#12 Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
#13 Cats have over 100 vocal chords
#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 then a penny
#18 A jellyfish is 95% water
#19 Children grow faster in the spring
#20 Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower
#21 Almonds are part of the peach family
#22 Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work
#23 The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monument
#24 The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses
#25 The only food that does not spoil is honey
#26 The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
#27 A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber
#28 Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying
#29 On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime
#30 Fish have eyelids
#31 The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping
#32 There is one million ants to every human in the world
#33 Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
#34 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white
#35 Elephants only sleep 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 smell is stronger then a dog's
#40 It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
#41 Shrimp can only swim backward
#42 Frogs cannot 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 per day
#46 Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump
#47 Giraffes have no vocal chords
#48 Cats can hear ultrasound
#49 Despite its hump...camels has a straight spine
#50 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth
#51 There is 63,360 inches in a mile
#52 11% of people in the world are left-handed
#53 The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime
#54 The average smell weighs 760 nanograms *
#55 A human brain weighs about 3lbs
#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 nose at 100mph
#59 Brain waves can be used to power an electric train
#60 The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body
#61 Pigs get sunburn
#62 The lifespan of a taste bud is 10 days
#63 The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
#64 Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges
#65 A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations
#66 Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day
#67 There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo
#68 The longest one syllable word is "screeched"
#69 No word in the English language rhymes with month
#70 A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second
#71 There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia
#72 The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use
#73 The average person spends 2 weeks of its life waiting for a traffic light to change
#74 You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world
#75 The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year
#76 The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime
#77 No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times
#78 Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US
#79 There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter
#80 About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet
#81 Alaska has more caribou then people
#82 August has the highest percent of births
#83 Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
#84 Oysters can change genders back and forth
#85 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
#86 Until the 19th 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 then one gallon of liquid
#89 The average American walks 18,000 steps a day
#90 The average raindrop falls at 7mph
#91 There are more telephones than people in Washington D.C.
#92 Fish can drown
#93 A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet
#94 Lizards communicate by doing push-ups
#95 Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs
#96 The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime
#97 A turkey can run at 20mph
#98 When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less
#99 You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum
#100 In a year, the average person walks 4 miles making their bed
#101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time
#102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories
#103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling
#104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record
#105 You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement
#106 You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level
#107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV
#108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories
#109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight
#110 Frogs never drink
#111 Only male turkeys gobble
#112 At birth, a Dalmation 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 and not fly is a 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 can't walk
#129 Mosquitos have 47 teeth
#130 Koala 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 three 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 mph 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 had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe"
#161 The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo"
#162 The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees fahrenheit
#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 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise
#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 sensetive parts of the body are the mouth and the 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 father 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 ten 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 states are named after and actual person
#196 If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5, 368, 709
#197 The first person crossed Niagra Falls by tightrope in 1859
#198 The US is the largest country names after an actual person (Amerigo Vespucci)
#199 The largest cheesecake ever-made weighed 57,508 lbs
#200 The first country to use postcards was Austria