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var bios = Array(
'#1 - A goldfish\'s attention span is three seconds.',
'#2 - Animals that lay eggs don\'t have belly buttons.',
'#3 - Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.',
'#4 - Slugs have four noses.',
'#5 - Camels have three eyelids.',
'#6 - A honey bee can fly at 15mph.',
'#7 - A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.',
'#8 - A bee has five eyelids.',
'#9 - The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.',
'#10 - Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.',
'#11 - Flamingos turn pink from eating 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 than 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 than 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 eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime while sleeping.',
'#32 - There are 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 two 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 sense of smell is stronger than 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 mammals that can\'t jump.',
'#47 - Giraffes have no vocal chords.',
'#48 - Cats can hear ultrasound.',
'#49 - Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.',
'#50 - Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.',
'#51 - There are 63,360 inches in a mile.',
'#52 - Eleven percent of people in the world are left-handed.',
'#53 - The average women consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.',
'#54 - The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.',
'#55 - A human brain weighs about three pounds.',
'#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 mouth at over 100 miles an hour.',
'#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 sunburned.',
'#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 than 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 - Caller ID is illegal in California.',
'#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 over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.',
'#74 - You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.',
'#75 - The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year.',
'#76 - The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.',
'#77 - No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.',
'#78 - Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.',
'#79 - There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.',
'#80 - About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.',
'#81 - Alaska has more caribou than people.',
'#82 - August has the highest percentage of births.',
'#83 - Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).',
'#84 - Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.',
'#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 than one gallon of liquid.',
'#89 - The average American walks 18,000 steps a day.',
'#90 - The average raindrop falls at seven mph.',
'#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 eyes the size of a volleyball.',
'#96 - The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.',
'#97 - A turkey can run at 20 mph.',
'#98 - When the moon is directly overhead you weigh slightly less.',
'#99 - You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum.',
'#100 - In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed.',
'#101 - About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.',
'#102 - A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.',
'#103 - Frowning burns more calories than smiling.',
'#104 - There are more than 30,000 diets on public record.',
'#105 - You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement.',
'#106 - You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.',
'#107 - You burn more calories sleeping than 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 percent of a panda\'s diet.',
'#116 - The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two 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 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 - Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.',
'#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 eight 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 Café."',
'#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 - 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 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, D.C. 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 farther 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 10 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 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.',
'#196 - If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.',
'#197 - The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.',
'#198 - The U.S. is the largest country named 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 3 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 cue 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.',
'#214 - Giraffes can lick their own eyes.',
'#215 - Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.',
'#216 - TV dinners originated in the Artic.',
'#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 from 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 - Tsiology 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.',
'#249 - The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was "A patient waiter is no loser".',
'#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.',
'#253 - The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.',
'#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 pounds of apples.',
'#274 - All lemons are harvested by hand.',
'#275 - It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 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 Eiffel 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 sail fish 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.',
'#307 - All dog breeds except chow-chows have black lips to prevent them from getting sunburned.',
'#308 - Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.',
'#309 - Ancient Egyptians believed 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 alphabetical 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 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.',
'#321 - The word "purple" does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.',
'#322 - In the U.S., there are about 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents each year.',
'#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 - The beaver is the official animal of Canada.',
'#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 three 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 - "Arachibutlphobia" 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 - Endocarp 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.',
'#382 - The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.',
'#383 - Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.',
'#384 - Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.',
'#385 - Lemons are more acidic than vinegar.',
'#386 - New York City\'s public school students represent about 188 different countries.',
'#387 - A banana is a giant herb.',
'#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 fifty miles of where they were born.',
'#393 - The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named "Botts dots".',
'#394 - Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.',
'#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 mouths 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.',
'#403 - The largest hailstone ever recorded in the U.S. was 17.5 inches around.',
'#404 - The Statue of Liberty\'s nose is four feet six inches long.',
'#405 - The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.',
'#406 - The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.',
'#407 - The largest dog litter was 23 puppies.',
'#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.',
'#412 - Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.',
'#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.',
'#416 - Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.',
'#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.',
'#421 - Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.',
'#422 - Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of 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 the 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 a 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.',
'#434 - In the U.S. a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.',
'#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.',
'#459 - A group of a dozen or more cows is called a \'flink.',
'#460 - Astronauts actually get taller when in space.',
'#461 - A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.',
'#462 - There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.',
'#463 - The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.',
'#464 - Cows do not have upper front teeth.',
'#465 - The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.',
'#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.',
'#468 - Camels have three eyelids.',
'#469 - 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh 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 head and neck.',
'#482 - Dieting by not eating will actually make your body start conserving calories as fat.',
'#483 - Smile more - every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.',
'#484 - Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50 percent.',
'#485 - Refrigerating apples 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.',
'#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 shine and remove dust.',
'#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.',
'#651 - Forty-six percent of leisure visitors to downtown New York City come from outside the United States.',
'#654 - New York taxi drivers collectively speak 60 languages.',
'#658 - New York City is made up of 50 islands.',
'#660 - The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat.',
'#661 - Pigs were banished from Philadelphia\'s city streets in 1710.',
'#662 - Philadelphia was the first capital of the United States.',
'#663 - Forty percent of America\'s population lives within a one-day drive to Philadelphia.',
'#664 - It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.',
'#665 - One in six doctors in America was trained in Philadelphia.',
'#667 - The shoreline at Wildwood grows almost 100 feet per year.',
'#668 - Cape May is the oldest seashore resort in America.',
'#669 - In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City.',
'#670 - Long Beach Island was once frequented by pirates.',
'#671 - There is a town called Jersey Shore in Pennsylvania.',
'#672 - The Wildwood Boardwalk extends nearly two miles and has more than 70,000 wooden planks.',
'#673 - The average turtle can\'t reproduce until it\'s 25 years old.',
'#674 - The oldest living animal ever found was a 405 year-old clam, named Ming by researchers.',
'#675 - More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.',
'#676 - At 5 feet, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America.',
'#677 - A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.',
'#678 - Unlike your housecat, the Siberian tiger actually loves to swim!',
'#679 - A tiger\'s night vision is six times better than a human\'s.',
'#680 - More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.',
'#681 - The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern US.',
'#682 - The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.',
'#683 - Wildlife Forever has helped plant 132,420 trees in America since its founding in 1987.',
'#684 - Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.',
'#685 - Dogs can make about 10 sounds, cats make about 100.',
'#686 - A Pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.',
'#687 - The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.',
'#688 - Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.',
'#689 - The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.',
'#690 - A chameleon shoots out its tongue to catch prey at speeds faster than a fighter jet.',
'#691 - The archer fish can spit water up to 7 feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.',
'#692 - The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench.',
'#693 - A male cricket\'s ear is located on the tibia of its leg.',
'#694 - Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.',
'#695 - The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.',
'#696 - With an average life expectancy of 81.2 years, the people of Okinawa, Japan live the longest.',
'#697 - Pilates stretches your muscles, improving your posture and helping you appear taller.',
'#698 - Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.',
'#699 - After working out, it takes 5 hours for your body temperature to return to normal.',
'#700 - Turning the faucet off while brushing your teeth can save up to 5 gallons of water.',
'#701 - It takes more water to fill a bathtub than it does to enjoy a nice, warm shower.',
'#702 - On average, a laptop uses half as much energy as a desktop computer.',
'#703 - The average bar of soap lasts twice as long as a bottle of body wash.',
'#704 - Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than normal paper.',
'#705 - Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.',
'#706 - Steel is 100% recyclable.',
'#707 - Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.',
'#708 - Manufacturing recycled goods uses up to 95% less energy than using raw materials.',
'#709 - Hybrid cars produce up to 75% less pollution than other vehicles.',
'#710 - A tankless water heater uses half the energy of a standard model.',
'#711 - Baking soda makes a great scouring cleanser, and it\'s naturally chemical-free.',
'#712 - 100% recyclable, old newspapers are great for washing windows.',
'#713 - An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won\'t.',
'#714 - When thirsty, a camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.',
'#715 - In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.',
'#716 - There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.',
'#717 - The mango is the most consumed fruit in the world.',
'#718 - On average a strawberry has 200 seeds on it.',
'#719 - A strawberry is not an actual berry but a banana is.',
'#720 - Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.',
'#721 - The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.',
'#722 - The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.',
'#723 - The optimum depth of water in a birdbath is two and a half inches.',
'#724 - A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.',
'#725 - Only female mosquitoes bite.',
'#726 - A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.',
'#727 - A spider\'s silk is stronger than steel.',
'#728 - The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. It would float if placed in water.',
'#729 - Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness.',
'#730 - The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.',
'#731 - There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.',
'#732 - The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.',
'#733 - All scorpions glow.',
'#734 - Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.',
'#735 - A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.',
'#736 - More babies are born at night than during the day.',
'#737 - The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.',
'#738 - There are more species of fish in the Amazon river than in the Atlantic Ocean.',
'#739 - You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.',
'#740 - Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of the Cashew family.',
'#741 - Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.',
'#742 - Over half of the world\'s geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.',
'#743 - A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.',
'#744 - Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.',
'#745 - Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.',
'#746 - The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.',
'#747 - Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.',
'#748 - A dog\'s average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.',
'#749 - The average housefly lives for one month.',
'#750 - The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.',
'#751 - Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.',
'#752 - A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.',
'#753 - A group of goats is called a trip.',
'#754 - An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.',
'#755 - There are more chickens than people in the world.',
'#756 - Penguins can jump 6 feet.',
'#757 - There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.',
'#758 - The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.',
'#759 - A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.',
'#760 - Dolphins sleep with one eye open.',
'#761 - Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.',
'#762 - A duck has three eyelids.',
'#763 - Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.',
'#764 - The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.',
'#765 - A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.',
'#766 - The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.',
'#767 - Honeybees have hair on their eyes.',
'#768 - Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.',
'#769 - If a sheep and a goat mate the offspring is called a geep.',
'#770 - Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.',
'#771 - Some dinosaurs were as small as chickens.',
'#772 - Male moose shed their antlers every winter and grow a new pair the next year.',
'#773 - Mountain goats aren\'t actually goats. They are antelopes.',
'#774 - Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.',
'#775 - Bees are born fully grown.',
'#776 - Ferret comes from the Latin word for little thief.',
'#777 - Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords: one for purring and one for meowing.',
'#778 - Some bears build nests in trees for sunbathing and resting.',
'#779 - A group of jellyfish is called a smack.',
'#780 - The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.',
'#781 - Women blink nearly twice as much as men.',
'#782 - The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.',
'#783 - Men get hiccups more than women.',
'#784 - The human brain is about 80% water.',
'#785 - The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.',
'#786 - The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.',
'#787 - Like fingerprints, everyone\'s tongue print is different.',
'#788 - The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.',
'#789 - The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.',
'#790 - Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.',
'#791 - The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.',
'#792 - The state of Florida is bigger than England.',
'#793 - Broadway is one of the longest streets in the world. It is 150 miles long.',
'#794 - Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the continental United States, and Zabriskie Point, the lowest point in the United States, are less than eighty miles apart.',
'#795 - Hawaii is moving toward Japan at the rate of almost 4 inches per year.',
'#796 - India has more English speakers than the United States.',
'#797 - In Youngstown Ohio, it is against the law to run out of gas.',
'#798 - Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.',
'#799 - The official color of California\'s Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.',
'#800 - Most lipstick contains fish scales.',
'#801 - It is not possible to tickle yourself.',
'#802 - Every state except Maine, Alaska, and Hawaii is home to at least one species of venomous snake.',
'#803 - Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.',
'#804 - There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.',
'#805 - India has a Bill of Rights for cows.',
'#806 - In Albania, nodding your head means no and shaking your head means yes.',
'#807 - Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.',
'#808 - Some violins contain 70 separate pieces of wood.',
'#809 - French author Michel Thayer published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.',
'#810 - Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.',
'#811 - The dots on a domino are called pips.',
'#812 - 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321',
'#813 - The number sign # is called an octothorpe.',
'#814 - Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900\'s.',
'#815 - The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.',
'#816 - In Ancient Greece throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.',
'#817 - Karate originated in India.',
'#818 - The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.',
'#819 - Children grow faster during springtime.',
'#820 - Relative to size, the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.',
'#821 - It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.',
'#822 - The only jointless bone in the body is in your throat.',
'#823 - Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.',
'#824 - On average a man spends about five months of his life shaving.',
'#825 - Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.',
'#826 - In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.',
'#827 - Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.',
'#828 - Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.',
'#829 - Women\'s hearts beat faster than men\'s hearts.',
'#830 - The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.',
'#831 - Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.',
'#832 - Brain waves can power an electric train.',
'#833 - Children have more taste buds than adults.',
'#834 - Right handed people tend to chew food on the right side and lefties chew on the left.',
'#835 - You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.',
'#836 - Pomology is the study of fruit.',
'#837 - The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana.',
'#838 - Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them.',
'#839 - A cucumber consists of 96% water.',
'#840 - The only food that does not spoil is honey.',
'#841 - The most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla.',
'#842 - Vanilla is used to make chocolate.',
'#843 - Bamboo (the world\'s tallest grass) can grow up to 90cm in a day.',
'#844 - One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.',
'#845 - A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.',
'#846 - An average of three billion cups of tea are consumed daily worldwide.',
'#847 - Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.',
'#848 - Wild camels once roamed Arizona\'s deserts.',
'#849 - New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.',
'#850 - Hawaii is further south than Florida.',
'#851 - Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.',
'#852 - Clearwater, Florida has the highest rate of lightning strikes per capita in the US.',
'#853 - Hawaii has its own time zone.',
'#854 - Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.',
'#855 - Oregon has more ghost towns than any other US city.',
'#856 - The world\'s largest silver nugget (1,840 lbs) was found in 1894 near Aspen, Colorado.',
'#857 - Louisiana is home to over 80% of the world\'s crayfish.',
'#858 - New Jersey is home to the world\'s first drive-in movie theater.',
'#859 - George Washington took the oath of office in New York City in 1789.',
'#860 - Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.',
'#861 - South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.',
'#862 - The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee, WI in 1867.',
'#863 - The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, reckie, which was short for recruit.',
'#864 - Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100lbs.',
'#865 - Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.',
'#866 - Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6\'4". James Madison was the shortest at 5\'4".',
'#867 - Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.',
'#868 - Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.',
'#869 - Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.',
'#870 - President Warren G. Harding once lost white house china in a poker game.',
'#871 - Ulysses Simpson Grant once got a $20.00 fine for speeding on his horse.',
'#872 - President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the white house bathtub.',
'#873 - President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named "Washington Post".',
'#874 - Harry S. Truman\'s middle name is S.',
'#875 - Before Thomas Jefferson took office people bowed to the president, rather than shaking his hand.',
'#876 - The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.',
'#877 - People don\'t sneeze when they are asleep because the nerves involved in the sneeze reflex are also resting.',
'#878 - Only male fireflies can fly.',
'#879 - Most Koala bears sleep about 22 hours a day.',
'#880 - The Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.',
'#881 - A baby caribou can outrun its mother at 3 days old.',
'#882 - In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.',
'#883 - Butterflies taste with their hind feet.',
'#884 - A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.',
'#885 - Vultures can fly for six hours without flapping their wings.',
'#886 - The bumblebee bat is the smallest mammal on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.',
'#887 - The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.',
'#888 - In some cultures\' telling of Snow White, the dwarves are thieves.',
'#889 - The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.',
'#890 - The number 1 or the word One appears on the dollar bill 16 times.',
'#891 - Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.',
'#892 - The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.',
'#893 - Jack-O-Lanterns were originally made out of turnips.',
'#894 - Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.',
'#895 - If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger nuts will rise to the top.',
'#896 - 2nd Street is the most common street name in the United States; First Street is the 6th most common.',
'#897 - The Mayflower only held 102 People.',
'#898 - The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.',
'#899 - The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.',
'#900 - Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.',
'#901 - The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second.',
'#902 - Barbie\'s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.',
'#903 - The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr.Potato Head.',
'#904 - If done perfectly, any Rubick\'s Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.',
'#905 - The side of a hammer is called a cheek.',
'#906 - Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.',
'#907 - Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.',
'#908 - In Athens, Greece, a driver\'s license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.',
'#909 - In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone\'s cow.',
'#910 - Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.',
'#911 - A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.',
'#912 - Meteorologists claim they\'re right 85% of the time.',
'#913 - The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.',
'#914 - A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.',
'#915 - At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.',
'#917 - The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write roughly 50,000 English words.',
'#918 - The first lollipop was invented in Connecticut.',
'#919 - The Lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.',
'#920 - Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother\'s maiden name was also Moon.',
'#921 - If you had 1 billion dollars and spent 1 thousand dollars a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all.',
'#922 - Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.',
'#923 - In Germany the shhh sound means hurry up.',
'#924 - The highest denomination issued by the U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.',
'#925 - The White House was originally called the President\'s Palace. It became The White House in 1901.',
'#926 - George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.',
'#927 - John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.',
'#928 - New York City has 722 miles of subway track.',
'#929 - Manatees\' eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera.',
'#930 - Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.',
'#931 - The nothingness of a black hole generates a sound in the key of B flat.',
'#932 - Horses can\'t vomit.',
'#933 - A crocodile can\'t stick out its tongue.',
'#934 - Babies are born with about 300 separate bones. Adults have 206.',
'#935 - Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.',
'#936 - A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.',
'#937 - Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.',
'#938 - It cost the United States Mint two cents to produce and distribute a penny in 2012.',
'#939 - The penny was the first U.S., coin to feature the likeness of an actual person.',
'#940 - Forty percent of twins invent their own language.',
'#941 - In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.',
'#942 - Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.',
'#943 - George Washington had false teeth made of gold, ivory, and lead - but never wood.',
'#944 - Napoleon Bonaparte was not short.At 5\' 7", he was of average height for his time.',
'#945 - The Inca built the largest and wealthiest empire in South America, but had no concept of money.',
'#946 - It is against the law to use "The Star Spangled Banner" as dance music in Massachusetts.',
'#947 - Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was not actually Egyptian, but a Macedonian Greek.',
'#948 - Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron.',
'#949 - Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C., and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.',
'#950 - The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.',
'#951 - A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.',
'#952 - Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus\' voyage across the ocean, claimed to have only bathed twice in her life.',
'#953 - The longest attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years.',
'#954 - Until its demolition in 2012, one percent of Greenland\'s total population lived in a single apartment building called Blok P.',
'#955 - A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - five times hotter than the sun.',
'#956 - At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.',
'#957 - In only 7.6 billion years, the sun will reach its maximum size and will shine 3,000 times brighter.',
'#958 - The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.',
'#959 - Federal law once allowed the government to quarantine people who came in contact with aliens.',
'#960 - There are 21 "secret" highways that are part of the Interstate Highway System. They are not identified as such by road signs.',
'#961 - The aphid, a small, sap-sucking insect, is born pregnant.',
'#962 - John Wilkes Booth\'s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln\'s son.',
'#963 - The Pacific Ocean is eight inches higher than the Atlantic Ocean at the Panama Canal.',
'#964 - It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.',
'#965 - It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the United Kingdom.',
'#966 - Tennis was originally played with bare hands.',
'#967 - There are ten times more microbial cells than human cells in our bodies.',
'#968 - -40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperatures as -40 degrees Celsius.',
'#969 - John Tyler had more children than any other U.S. president. The last of his 15 children was born when he was 70 years old.',
'#970 - Dolphins are unable to smell.',
'#971 - Charlie Chaplin failed to make the finals of a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.',
'#972 - The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.',
'#973 - Within five minutes of waking, 50 percent of a dream is forgotten. Within ten minutes, 90 percent of it is forgotten.',
'#974 - All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black unless they are carrying an important person.',
'#975 - The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.',
'#976 - \'K\' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because \'S\' was being used to denote a sacrifice.',
'#977 - The tradition of baseball managers wearing player uniforms started because the first managers were also players.',
'#978 - George Washington feared being buried alive.',
'#979 - A dimpled golf ball produces less drag and flies farther than a smooth golf ball would fly.',
'#980 - When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.',
'#981 - President Chester A. Arthur owned 80 pairs of pants, which he changed several times per day.',
'#982 - Cows do not have upper front teeth.',
'#983 - Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was farther from the Sun than Pluto. This will happen again in 2227.',
'#984 - When creating a mummy, Ancient Egyptians removed the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.',
'#985 - All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996, and 2008 U.S. presidential elections were left-handed.',
'#986 - In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.',
'#987 - The first American gold rush happened in North Carolina, not California.',
'#988 - Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.',
'#989 - To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.'
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