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"The hyena is actually a member of the cat family",

"The width of your armspan stretched is the length of your whole body. ",

"Some frogs can pull their eyes into their throat and help push food down! ",

"An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day; that's four percent of the elephant's body weight! ",

"The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long! ",

"Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man. ",

"Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication. ",

"The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard! ",

"Hummingbirds flap their wings between 50 and 70 times a second! ",

"When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black ink. ",

"There are about 100 billion birds in the world, and about 6 billion of them make their homes in the United States. ",

"The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow. ",

"The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds. ",

"The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker. ",

"Starfish can have up to 16 arms! ",

"Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface. ",

"Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world. ",

"Adult male giraffes bang their long necks together in a form of ritual fighting, during which no harm is done to either giraffe. ",

"The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world. ",

"The black-necked cobra, which lives mostly in Africa, spits its venom into the eyes of its victim, to cause it blindness. ",

"When two lovebirds appear to be kissing, they are actually grooming each other with their bills to keep clean and neat. ",

"The honeybee has to travel an average of 43,000 miles to collect enough nectar to make a pound of honey! ",

"A bird called the bee eater in areas of Africa thinks that riding around on the backs of other animals is fun! ",

"The dipper bird builds nests behind waterfalls for protection. ",

"Vultures can soar for hours without one beat of their wings. ",

"Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them. ","Sometimes birds show anger towards humans by taking out its feelings on other birds nearby, because they are too afraid to attack humans. ",

"Foxes sometimes nip at the heals of cattle so the stomping of the cattle makes mice and other rodents come out of the ground, for the fox to eat. ",

"The fiddler crab can grow a new claw when it loses one of its own. ","Blue jays often forget where they hide winter supplies of food. ",

"Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut. ",

"Some ducks and geese can fly as much as 332 miles a day! ",

"The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years! ",

"The Egyptian vulture uses stones to smash ostrich eggs. ",

"Birds save energy by flying in a 'V' formation. ",

"Theodore Roosevelt was the U.S. President with the most pets, including a lion, hyena, wildcat, five bears, and many more! ",

"Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea. ",

"Salamanders breath through their skin. ",

"People used to think the Manatee was a mermaid. ",

"Some fish have eyes that are the same size as their stomach! ",

"A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach! ",

"Out of every 1,000 Mosquitos, one female carries a disease that could be fatal to humans. ",

"There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed. ",

"The bee frog of Africa is no bigger than a bee. ",

"An okapi's tongue can grow to be 17 inches long. ",

"Cows have four-chambered stomachs. ",

"Fish have gel-slime on their bodies that protects them from parasites. ",

"An owl's eyes are bigger than its brain. ",

"The faster kangaroos hop, the less energy they use. ",

"The flying fox of Africa has a wingspan of fifty inches! ",

"Giraffes have black tongues. ",

"A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. ",

"An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. ",

"Some frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and continue living. ",

"Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water. ",

"A duck's quack has no echo. ",

"Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs can only make 10. ",

"Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes. ",

"Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg. ",

"Honeybees have hair on their eyes. ",

"The only bird that can fly backwards is the Hummingbird. ",

"Female lions do 90% of the hunting. ",

"Alligators cannot move backwards. ",

"A duck has three eyelids. ",

"A starfish doesn't have a brain. ",

"Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down. ",

"An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. ",

"The average housefly lives for one month. ",

"The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts. ",

"Most hamsters blink one eye at a time. ",

"Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. ",

"It costs an average of $5,000 to raise a dog to ten years old. ",

"There is only one insect that can turn its head -- the praying mantis. ",

"The Arctic tern flies an average of 22,000 miles a year! ",

"Only one mammal can't jump -- the elephant. ",

"A slug has four noses. ",

"A hummingbird weighs less than a penny! ",

"Camels have three sets of eyelids. ",

"The flying fox is a bat with a wing span over five feet. ",

"Dragonflies can fly up to 50 miles per hour. ",

"A goldfish can live up to 40 years. ",

"On ostrich's egg weighs 3 1/2 pounds. ",

"A giant squid's eyes are bigger than dinner plates. ",

"A peregrine falcon can reach speeds up to 200 miles per hour. ",

"A skunk can spray its stench twelve feet away. ",

"Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders. ",

"Dogs sweat only through their tongues. ",

"A kangaroo can jump 45 feet! ",

"A rabbit's teeth never stop growing. ",

"A mosquito flaps its wings 500 times a second. ",

"You can lead a cow up a stairwell but not down a stairwell. ",

"Only male crickets can chirp. ",

"Dogs can't see colors. They're color blind. ",

"Squirrels can't remember where they hide half of their nuts. ",

"The stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut! ",

"Bats always turn left when they leave their caves. ",

"Octopuses have 3 hearts. ",

"A giraffe's tongue can measure 21 inches. ",

"There are almost 60 million dogs in the United States. ",

"Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day! ",

"Some wild tigers can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time, and not eat again for several days. ",

"About 80% of the Earth's animals are insects! ",

"The first animal sent up to outer space was a dog. ",

"The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived (it could reach 100 feet long and weight up to 150 tons!) ",

"The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body! ",

"The smallest frog is less than 3/8 of an inch in length. ",

"The smallest cat is the Singapuras and weighs only 4 pounds. ",

"The hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of 136.4 degrees F was once recorded. ",

"The hottest place on earth is in Dallol, Ethiopia, which is a sizzling 94 degrees in the shade on a typical day! ",

"Angel Falls in Venezuela is 20 times taller than Niagara Falls. ",

"Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a basketball game in 1962, when he played for the Philadelphia Warriors. ",

"The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years! ",

"The longest conga to this date included 119,986 people. ",

"The longest movie made lasts 85 hours and is fittingly titled 'The Cure for Insomnia.'",

"If you were to place the planet Saturn in a big enough bowl of water, it would float! ",

"About 20 percent of the earth's land is made up of desert, and the world's largest desert is the Sahara of North Africa. ",

"The planet Pluto is very cold, and reaches minus 400 degrees F. ",

"On a clear night, the human eye can see between 2,000 and 3,000 stars in the sky. ",

"Water is the only substance on earth that is lighter as a solid than a liquid. ",

"The White Sands national park in New Mexico is the largest desert with the fine white sand, made of a mineral called gypsum. ",

"Our sun is over 2.5 million miles around at its equator. ",

"96% of Egypt is made up of the desert sands of the Sahara. ",

"Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, standing 29,028 feet high. ",

"The Amazon rain forest supplies one-fifth of the world's oxygen! ",

"Every day, eight trillion gallons of water pour out of the mouth of the Amazon River into the Atlantic Ocean. ",

"The ice that covers 98% of Antarctica holds 90% of the world's fresh water. ",

"Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world, and holds as much water as all the five Great Lakes of the U.S. combined! ",

"Lake Superior, one of the five Great Lakes between the U.S. and the border of Canada, is a freshwater lake with the largest surface area, and it's so big it has waves! ",

"Olympus Mons is a mountain on Mars, which is about fifteen miles high, three times higher than Mount Everest on earth, and at the top it is 45 miles across! ",

"Scientist believe that diamond rains occur on Neptune and Uranus. The heart of these planets may be a layer of diamonds hundreds of miles thick. ",

"Jupiter's giant red spot is like a tornado and it is 3 times bigger than the earth. ",

"The largest crater on the moon measures 183 miles across. ",

"Australia is the only continent on earth without an active volcano. ",

"The earth is over 330,000 times smaller than the sun. ",

"The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. ",

"71% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. ",

"Jupiter is a planet made entirely of gases. ",

"Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system, and the farthest of the planets away from the sun. ",

"There are over six billion people living on Earth! ",

"The Earth is 93 million miles away from the sun. ",

"97% of the earth's water is undrinkable! ",

"If you could live on the planet Mercury, a year would only last 88 days. ",

"The more salt you put on ice, the more the ice melts. ",

"It gets as cold as minus 160 degrees F. ten miles above the ground on earth! ",

"Raindrops aren't really shaped like drops; they are perfectly round! ",

"Antarctica gets less precipitation than any other continent on earth. ",

"The Atacama Desert in Chile is the driest place on earth, where it has an average of three-hundredths of an inch of rain per year. ",

"The greatest snowfall recorded in a day was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado on April 14-15, 1921. I wonder how long schools were closed? ",

"Hold on to your hat! The fastest wind speed ever recorded was 231 miles per hour on Mount Washington, New Hampshire on April 12, 1934. ",

"A lightning bolt is 4 times hotter than the sun. ",

"Once in England, because of a water spout, it rained frogs! ",

"Roy Sullivan, A U.S. park ranger, was struck by lightning seven times during his life and lived to tell about each of those strikes! ",

"Lightning strikes 1,000 times per second on the planet earth. ",

"Windmills always turn counter-clockwise, unless they're in Ireland. ",

"Cows sometimes sit down in a field when they know it's going to rain. (that way, they are saving a dry spot to sit for themselves). ",

"How long can you tread water? The greatest rainfall recorded in a day was 73.62 inches at Reunion in the Indian Ocean on March 15, 1952. ",

"One inch of rain is equal to 10 inches of snow. ",

"It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus. ",

"A human's small intestine is 6 meters long. ",

"The human body is 75% water. ",

"Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be over 62,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice. ",

"The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow! ",

"The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds. ",

"The average American over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. ",

"It takes more muscles to frown than it takes to smile. ",

"The average person has at least seven dreams a night. ",

"Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day. ",

"Your brain is 80% water. ",

"85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube. ",

"Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds. ",

"Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old",

"Your forearm (from inside of  elbow to inside of wrist) is the same length as your foot. ",

"A sneeze travels at over 100 miles per hour. Gesundheit! ",

"Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete. ",

"It takes 14 muscles to smile and 20 muscles to frown. ",

"Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails. ",

"You blink your eyes over 10,000,000 a year. ",

"If someone tells you you smell like flowers, it may not be a compliment if they are referring to the rafflesia flower. This flower smells like rotten meat! ",

"It is said that when England is in danger a drum owned by Francis Drake rolls by itself. ",

"It has been estimated that the number of actively spoken languages in the world today is about 6,000. ",

"There is no word that rhymes with orange. ",

"Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head.'",

"The most common letters in English are R S T L N E. ",

"There is no word that rhymes with purple. ",

" Vincent Van Gogh only sold 1 painting his whole life and that was to his brother! ",

"A Japanese explorer named Maomi Uemura was the first man to reach the North Pole alone, on April 29, 1978, after his eight-week journey. ",

"Water boils more quickly at the top of a mountain, because there is more air pressing down on it. ",

"Steamboat Geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, is the most powerful geyser in the world, and can shoot super-hot water 300 feet in the air. ",

"Mark Twain, one of America's best-loved authors, dropped out of school when he was 12 years old, after his father died. ",

"The ice cream cone was originally a way to hold flowers, not ice cream! ",

"The first modern traffic light was put to use in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914. ",

"On April 2, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman candidate for the U.S. presidency. ",

"Every year, plants make and store ten times the amount of energy that people use. ",

"Babe Ruth kept a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep cool. ",

"Over 160 billion pieces of mail are sent every year in the U.S. ",

"Tomatoes are really fruits, not vegetables. ",

"America's first major highway was called the National Road, and was opened in 1814, connecting the city of Baltimore with the Ohio River. ",

"Abraham Lincoln once invented a device for lifting riverboats over shallow water. ",

"The Chinese first invented the system of zoos, and called them 'Parks of Intelligence'",

"Cowboys used to bury their new hats in the ground to make them look old and more beat up, so they aren't taken as 'tenderfoots' when they have a new hat. ",

"President Lyndon B. Johnson once had a barbecue on the White House Roof! ",

"In the late 1800s, it was a custom for ruling men in China to allow one of their fingernails to grow to four or five inches long, as a symbol of wealth. ",

"Three of America's Founding Fathers, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe, died on the Fourth of July. ",

"The most drought resistant tree is the baobab tree. It stores 35,900 gallons of water in its trunk for later use. ",

"Vatican City is a country located entirely within the city of Rome,Italy. ",

"Humans spend a third of their lives sleeping. ",

"There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. ",

"A golf ball has 360 dimples. ",

"The state of Florida is bigger than England. ",

"The average American spends about 6 months of his life waiting at red lights. ",

"You'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food in your lifetime. That's like eating six elephants. ",

"The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his or her lifetime. ",

"Ancient Egyptians used rocks for pillows. ",

"A U.S. quarter has 119 grooves on its edge. Go ahead, count them! ",

"Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. Good thing he invented the light bulb! ",

"There are some kinds of bamboo that grow 35 inches in one day! ",

"The Great Wall of China is 1,500 miles long and can be seen from outer space! ",

" A 'ten gallon' hat only holds 3 quarts. ",

"More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than any other day of the year. ",

"Early Greeks and Romans used dried watermelons for helmets. ",

"The Braille system of writing was invented by Louis Braille when he was 15 years old! ",

"The lollipop is named after a race horse. ",

"Over 1.6 billion miles of telephone wire are installed across the U.S. ",

"The 'S' in Harry S Truman does not stand for anything. ",

"Americans eat over 75 acres of pizza a day. ",

"There are an average of eight peas in a pod. ",

"There are 30 million teenagers in the world. ",

"There are more women in the world than men. ",

" A long time ago in Greece, a man would toss an apple to a girl as a proposal. If she caught it, she meant yes. ",

"Glass, which looks like a solid, is actually a very slow moving liquid! ",

"Not all mummies are from Egypt. Some are from South America. ",

"7% of the population are lefties. ",

"The average person over fifty will have spent 1 year looking for lost items. ",

"The average person will drink 8,000 gallons of water during their lifetime. ",

"The name 'Wendy' was made up for the book, Peter Pan. ",

"Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre. ",

"The yo-yo was first used as a weapon. ",

"Mexico's east coast sinks into the sea one to two inches per year. ",

"You speak about 4,800 words per day. ",

"A year is made up of 31,557,600 seconds. ",

"A piece of paper can be folded no more then 9 times. ",

"By the time you graduate from high school, you will have been in school for about 17,000 hours. "


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