Snapple Facts

You can use these to impress a date, fill a lull in a conversation, or just make yourself look like an ass, just like the kid in Jerry McGuire.



#1 A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds.

#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 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 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 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

#130 Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

#131 Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to freshwater.

#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 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 sensitive 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 enery day for 30 days, you would have $5, 368, 709. 12.

#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.

#201 The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.

#202 The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is three feet wide.

#203 Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.

#204 A stamp shaped like a banana was once issued in the country of Tonga.

#205 For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.

#206 Over 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.

#207 Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.

#208 Add up opposing sides of a dice cube and you'll always get seven.

#209 The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.

#210 1.3 billion pounds of peanuts are produced in Georgia each year.

#211 The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.

#212 Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.

#213 The largest ball of twine in the US weighs over 17,000 pounds.

#214 Giraffes can link their own eyes.

#215 Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.

#216 TV dinners originated in the Arctic.

#217 Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.

#218 A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.

#219 An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.

#220 Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.

#221 The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.

#222 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.

#223 The Basenji is the only type of dog that does not bark.

#224 America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal froma a mine to boats below.

#225 There are towns named Sandwich in Illinois and Massachusetts.

#226 13 percent of the world's tea comes from Kenya.

#227 'Tsialogy' is anything written about tea.

#228 There is a town in South Dakota named 'Tea'.

#229 The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.

#230 Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.

#231 Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.

#232 The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.

#233 There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.

#234 Great Falls, Montana, is the windiest city in the U.S.

#235 The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.

#236 Cows give more milk when they listen to music.

#237 The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.

#238 An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.

#239 Besides humans, elephants are the only animals that can be taught to stand on their head.

#240 "Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.

#241 The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.

#242 The nickname of President Hayes's wife was "Lemonade Lucy".

#243 If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.

#244 The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.

#245 The first typewriter was called the "literary piano".

#246 The "silk" of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.

#247 Britain was the first country to register a patent on polyester.

#248 Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.

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#250 Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.

#251 There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.

#252 There is a town in Alaska called Chicken.

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#254 The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.

#255 Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.

#256 There are more saunas than cars in Finland.

#257 The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.

#258 Lemon wood is carved into chess pieces.

#259 The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.

#260 Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.

#261 Playing in a marching band is considered moderate exercise.

#262 The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to stay awake than caffeine.

#263 Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.

#264 Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.

#265 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.

#266 Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that doesn't have a Main Street.

#267 Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.

#268 One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.

#269 Horseback riding can improve your posture.

#270 Colors like red, yellow, and orange make you hungry.

#271 Dim lights reduce your appetite.

#272 At birth, a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.

#273 Each year, the average American eats about 15 lbs. of apples.

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#275 It took the first man to walk around the world 4 years, 3 months, and 6 days to complete his journey.

#276 Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.

#277 Today's "modern" wrestling moves have been seen in tomb drawings from ancient Egypt.

#278 China only has one time zone.

#279 Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.

#280 The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.

#281 The original name of Nashville, Tennessee, was Big Salt Lick.

#282 If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.

#283 A compass needle does not point directly north.

#284 Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.

#285 In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.

#286 The height of the Eiffle Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.

#287 Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.

#288 Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.

#289 In 1908, the first lollipop-making machine started in New Haven, CT.

#290 One out of every eight residents in the U.S. lives in California.

#291 Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.

#292 Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.

#293 Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.

#294 No only child has been a U.S. President.

#295 Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.

#296 In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.

#297 David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.

#298 The sailfish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.

#299 The Library of Congress has 600 miles of shelves.

#300 Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell.

#301 William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.

#302 Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.

#303 Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.

#304 In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.

#305 The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.

#306 In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.

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#308 Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.

#309 Ancient Egyptians believed that the "vein of love" ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.

#310 The word "facetious" features all the vowels in alphatbetical order.

#311 The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.

#312 A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.

#313 "O" is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.

#314 The Japanese word "judo" means "the gentle way".

#315 No two lip impressions are the same.

#316 It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.

#317 Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.

#318 Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the costliest chips in casinos .

#319 The name for the space between your eyebrows is "nasion."

#320 There is a town called Jackpot in Nevada.

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#322 In the U.S., there are about 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents.

#323 The Lemon-Yellow Tree Frog is only active in the darkness of night.

#324 The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.

#325 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.

#326 On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.

#327 Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.

#328 The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown -- one for each of the continents.

#329 The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.

#330 The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.

#331 The area code in Cape Canaveral, FL, is 321.

#332 Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.

#333 Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.

#334 Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.

#335 Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.

#336 The last letter to be added to our alphabet was "J".

#337 Farmington, Maine celebrates Chester Greenwood Day to honor the inventor of earmuffs.

#338 Of all the trees in Australia, 75% are eucalyptus.

#339 There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.

#340 There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.

#341 Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.

#342 California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.

#343 The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.

#344 Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.

#345 The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.

#346 The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.

#347 A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.

#348 It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.

#349 Most cats don't like lemonade.

#350 The watersheds that supply water to New York City are roughly the size of Delaware.

#351 Cold water weighs less than hot water.

#352 Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.

#353 The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.

#354 Bamboo can grow 3 feet in one day.

#355 A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.

#356 You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.

#357 A baboon is a variety of lemon.

#358 Butterflies were formerly known by the name "flutterby".

#359 A teaspoon contains 120 drops of water.

#360 Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.

#361 The pineapple is a very big berry.

#362 "Arachibutiphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

#363 Pearls dissolve in vinegar.

#364 Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.

#365 The oil in cashews helps prevent tooth decay.

#366 The center of some golf balls contain honey.

#367 International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100 feet long.

#368 In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.

#369 On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.

#370 Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.

#371 Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.

#372 A housefly hums in the key of F.

#373 Endacorp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.

#374 Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.

#375 "Way" is the most frequently used noun in the English language.

#376 The "high five" was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.

#377 "Disco" means "I learn" in Latin.

#378 It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.

#379 The "lemon yellow" crayon was introduced in 1949 and retired in 1990.

#380 It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.

#381 Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.

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#383 Mt. Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.

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#386 New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.

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#388 The first person in the U.S. arrested for speeding was a NYC cab driver.

#389 In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.

#390 Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.

#391 A sea lemon is a mollusk that feeds on sponges.

#392 Three out of every six Americans live within 50 miles of where they were born.

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#395 It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

#396 The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.

#397 Bamboo can grow over three feet per day.

#398 Hippos can open their mouth 180 degrees.

#399 Manhattan was the first capital of the United States.

#400 About 80 women go into labor on NYC subways every year.

#401 The coldest city in the U.S. is International Falls, Minnesota.

#402 Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.

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#404 The Statue of Liberty's nose is four feet six inches long.

#405 The East Antarctica Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.

#406 The deepest place in the ocean is about 7 miles deep.

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#408 Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.

#409 Approximately 16'500 people in the U.S. go by the last name Lemon.

#410 Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.

#411 Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.

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#413 The T-rex's closest living relative is the chicken.

#414 Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.

#415 The most popular pet name in the United States is 'Max'.

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#417 All polar bears are left-handed.

#418 The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.

#419 A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.

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#421 Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.

#422 Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members or the rose family.

#423 U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper - it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.

#424 The 'ZIP' in zip code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.

#425 Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

#426 The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.

#427 Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.

#428 There are 118 ridges on the edge of the United States dime.

#429 There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.

#430 One acre of peanuts will make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

#431 A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.

#432 Antarctica holds 90% of the world's fresh water.

#433 The state of Tennessee was originally called Franklin.

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#435 Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.

#436 Beavers have orange teeth.

#437 The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.

#438 Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.

#439 Snails can sleep for up to three years.

#440 The pupils in goats' eyes are rectangular.

#441 Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.

#442 "Bees' wings beat 11,400 times per minute".

#443 The pound sign, or #, is called an 'octothorp'.

#444 The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.

#445 If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a "blue" moon.

#446 You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.

#447 A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.

#448 The sun evaporates about a trillion tons of water a day.

#449 Sound travels quicker in water than in air.

#450 A group of cats is called a 'clowder'.

#451 Human eyes have over two million working parts.

#452 There are approximately 9'000 taste buds on your tongue.

#453 Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.

#454 Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.

#455 Lobsters can live up to 50 years.

#456 About 85% of the world's population is right-handed.

#457 The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.

#458 Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.

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#460 Astronauts actually get taller when in space.

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#462 The King Ranch in Kingsville Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and over 23 countries.

#463 The dot over the 'i' is called a 'tittle'.

#464 Cows do not have upper front teeth.

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#466 During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.

#467 Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.

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#469 454 U.S. dollar bills weight exactly one pound.

#470 Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.

#471 The most common name for a pet goldfish is 'Jaws'.

#472 A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.

#473 Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.

#474 To temporarily revive your ballpoint pen, dip the tip into hot water for a few seconds.

#475 Wrapping rubber bands around the ends of hangers can prevent clothes from slipping off.

#476 Replacing your car's air filter can improve gas mileage by 10 percent.

#477 A chalkboard eraser is one of the best ways to wipe a foggy windshield.

#478 Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.

#479 Knots come out easier if you sprinkle talcum powder on them.

#480 You can tell which day a loaf of bread was baked by the color of its plastic twist tag.

#481 Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your neck and head.

#482 Dieting by not eating will actually make your body start conserving calories as fat.

#483 every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

#484 Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50%.

#485 Refrigerating apple can help them last up to 10 times longer than those left at room temperature

#486 While chopping onions, hold a piece of bread between your lips to keep your eyes from watering.

#487 Place an apple in the bag with your potatoes to keep them from budding.

#488 Place a slice of bread in the storage container to keep cookies soft when storing.

#489 To keep an ice cream cone from dripping, stuff a miniature marshmallow into the bottom of the cone.

#490 To take lumps out of a bag of sugar, place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

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#492 To remove crayon marks from walls, use a hairdryer to heat the wax.

#493 To make a zipper slide up and down more smoothly, rub a bar of soap over the teeth.

#494 Wipe the leaves of your plants with the soft inside of a banana skin to bring up the shine and remove dust.

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#496 To clean paint off your hands, use olive oil - it softens the paint and makes it easy to remove.

#497 To fix a button about to fall off, dab a little clear nail polish over the threads holding it on.