Thurgood Marshall Middle School

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Posted On: 03/25/2010
Year: 2010

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#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.

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#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 it's 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 - 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 networks kids show in the US 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

#440 - The pupils in goats' eyes are rectangular.

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

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

#469 - 454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.

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

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

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