From 0b08f73feaa0df4c59c50b5768ce6a70f89b38bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Williams Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 12:16:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] v2.1.3 publish --- .../getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber.js | 13 +- .../tests/getFactByNumber.test.js | 44 +- src/functions/getFacts/getFacts.js | 16 +- src/functions/getFacts/tests/getFacts.test.js | 46 +- src/functions/listFacts/listFacts.js | 8 +- .../listFacts/tests/listFacts.test.js | 46 +- src/functions/randomFact/randomFact.js | 20 +- .../randomFact/tests/randomFact.test.js | 30 +- src/index.js | 96 +- src/interfaces/snappleFact.js | 4 +- src/snappleFacts.js | 8092 ++++++++--------- src/tests/index.test.js | 8 +- 12 files changed, 4205 insertions(+), 4218 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/functions/getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber.js b/src/functions/getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber.js index a6396f3..8bcde1e 100644 --- a/src/functions/getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber.js +++ b/src/functions/getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber.js @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -'use strict'; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); +"use strict"; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); /** * Retrieves a SnappleFact by its number. * @param {Object} args - The arguments for retrieving the SnappleFact. @@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); * @returns {SnappleFact | undefined} - The SnappleFact matching the provided number, or undefined if not found. * @throws {Error} - Throws an error if the provided number is invalid. */ -const GetFactByNumber = args => { - const { snappleFacts, number } = args; - if (number < 1 || number > snappleFacts.length) throw new Error('Invalid number'); - return snappleFacts.find(fact => fact.number === number); +const GetFactByNumber = (args) => { + const { snappleFacts, number } = args; + if (number < 1 || number > snappleFacts.length) + throw new Error('Invalid number'); + return snappleFacts.find(fact => fact.number === number); }; exports.default = GetFactByNumber; diff --git a/src/functions/getFactByNumber/tests/getFactByNumber.test.js b/src/functions/getFactByNumber/tests/getFactByNumber.test.js index 3efb11e..2532c30 100644 --- a/src/functions/getFactByNumber/tests/getFactByNumber.test.js +++ b/src/functions/getFactByNumber/tests/getFactByNumber.test.js @@ -1,25 +1,23 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const getFactByNumber_1 = __importDefault(require('../getFactByNumber')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const getFactByNumber_1 = __importDefault(require("../getFactByNumber")); describe('getFactByNumber', () => { - it('should return a fact for a valid number', () => { - const snappleFacts = [ - { number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }, - { number: 2, fact: 'fact 2' }, - ]; - const fact = (0, getFactByNumber_1.default)({ snappleFacts, number: 1 }); - expect(fact).toEqual({ number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }); - }); - it('should throw an error for an invalid number', () => { - const snappleFacts = [ - { number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }, - { number: 2, fact: 'fact 2' }, - ]; - expect(() => (0, getFactByNumber_1.default)({ snappleFacts, number: 3 })).toThrow('Invalid number'); - }); + it('should return a fact for a valid number', () => { + const snappleFacts = [ + { number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }, + { number: 2, fact: 'fact 2' }, + ]; + const fact = (0, getFactByNumber_1.default)({ snappleFacts, number: 1 }); + expect(fact).toEqual({ number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }); + }); + it('should throw an error for an invalid number', () => { + const snappleFacts = [ + { number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }, + { number: 2, fact: 'fact 2' }, + ]; + expect(() => (0, getFactByNumber_1.default)({ snappleFacts, number: 3 })).toThrow('Invalid number'); + }); }); diff --git a/src/functions/getFacts/getFacts.js b/src/functions/getFacts/getFacts.js index a2da450..224a3cf 100644 --- a/src/functions/getFacts/getFacts.js +++ b/src/functions/getFacts/getFacts.js @@ -1,16 +1,14 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const snappleFacts_1 = __importDefault(require('../../snappleFacts')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const snappleFacts_1 = __importDefault(require("../../snappleFacts")); /** * Retrieves an array of Snapple facts. * @returns {SnappleFact[]} An array of Snapple facts. */ const GetFacts = () => { - return snappleFacts_1.default; + return snappleFacts_1.default; }; exports.default = GetFacts; diff --git a/src/functions/getFacts/tests/getFacts.test.js b/src/functions/getFacts/tests/getFacts.test.js index 18b2b9f..bd974b8 100644 --- a/src/functions/getFacts/tests/getFacts.test.js +++ b/src/functions/getFacts/tests/getFacts.test.js @@ -1,26 +1,24 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const getFacts_1 = __importDefault(require('../getFacts')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const getFacts_1 = __importDefault(require("../getFacts")); describe('GetFacts', () => { - it('should return an array of SnappleFacts', () => { - const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); - expect(facts.length).toBeGreaterThan(0); - }); - it('should return an array of SnappleFacts with numbers', () => { - const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); - expect(facts[0].number).toBeDefined(); - }); - it('should return an array of SnappleFacts with facts', () => { - const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); - expect(facts[0].fact).toBeDefined(); - }); - it('should return an array of SnappleFacts with sources', () => { - const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); - expect(facts[0].fact).toBeDefined(); - }); + it('should return an array of SnappleFacts', () => { + const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); + expect(facts.length).toBeGreaterThan(0); + }); + it('should return an array of SnappleFacts with numbers', () => { + const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); + expect(facts[0].number).toBeDefined(); + }); + it('should return an array of SnappleFacts with facts', () => { + const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); + expect(facts[0].fact).toBeDefined(); + }); + it('should return an array of SnappleFacts with sources', () => { + const facts = (0, getFacts_1.default)(); + expect(facts[0].fact).toBeDefined(); + }); }); diff --git a/src/functions/listFacts/listFacts.js b/src/functions/listFacts/listFacts.js index 51c9749..48f4337 100644 --- a/src/functions/listFacts/listFacts.js +++ b/src/functions/listFacts/listFacts.js @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -'use strict'; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); +"use strict"; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); /** * Retrieves an array of fact strings from an array of SnappleFact objects. * * @param snappleFacts - An array of SnappleFact objects. * @returns An array of fact strings. */ -const ListFacts = snappleFacts => { - return snappleFacts.map(fact => fact.fact); +const ListFacts = (snappleFacts) => { + return snappleFacts.map(fact => fact.fact); }; exports.default = ListFacts; diff --git a/src/functions/listFacts/tests/listFacts.test.js b/src/functions/listFacts/tests/listFacts.test.js index 03c6fab..4052eb0 100644 --- a/src/functions/listFacts/tests/listFacts.test.js +++ b/src/functions/listFacts/tests/listFacts.test.js @@ -1,26 +1,24 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const listFacts_1 = __importDefault(require('../listFacts')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const listFacts_1 = __importDefault(require("../listFacts")); describe('ListFacts', () => { - it('should return an array of strings', () => { - const snappleFacts = [ - { fact: 'Fact 1', number: 1 }, - { fact: 'Fact 2', number: 2 }, - { fact: 'Fact 3', number: 3 }, - ]; - const expected = ['Fact 1', 'Fact 2', 'Fact 3']; - const actual = (0, listFacts_1.default)(snappleFacts); - expect(actual).toEqual(expected); - }); - it('should return an empty array when given an empty array', () => { - const snappleFacts = []; - const expected = []; - const actual = (0, listFacts_1.default)(snappleFacts); - expect(actual).toEqual(expected); - }); + it('should return an array of strings', () => { + const snappleFacts = [ + { fact: 'Fact 1', number: 1 }, + { fact: 'Fact 2', number: 2 }, + { fact: 'Fact 3', number: 3 }, + ]; + const expected = ['Fact 1', 'Fact 2', 'Fact 3']; + const actual = (0, listFacts_1.default)(snappleFacts); + expect(actual).toEqual(expected); + }); + it('should return an empty array when given an empty array', () => { + const snappleFacts = []; + const expected = []; + const actual = (0, listFacts_1.default)(snappleFacts); + expect(actual).toEqual(expected); + }); }); diff --git a/src/functions/randomFact/randomFact.js b/src/functions/randomFact/randomFact.js index 361bc74..cc57a9f 100644 --- a/src/functions/randomFact/randomFact.js +++ b/src/functions/randomFact/randomFact.js @@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const crypto_1 = __importDefault(require('crypto')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const crypto_1 = __importDefault(require("crypto")); /** * Retrieves a random SnappleFact from the given array of SnappleFacts. * @param {SnappleFact[]} snappleFacts - The array of SnappleFacts to choose from. * @returns {SnappleFact} - A random SnappleFact. */ -const RandomFact = snappleFacts => { - const randomIndex = crypto_1.default.randomInt(0, snappleFacts.length); - return snappleFacts[randomIndex]; +const RandomFact = (snappleFacts) => { + const randomIndex = crypto_1.default.randomInt(0, snappleFacts.length); + return snappleFacts[randomIndex]; }; exports.default = RandomFact; diff --git a/src/functions/randomFact/tests/randomFact.test.js b/src/functions/randomFact/tests/randomFact.test.js index 141de2d..de4caad 100644 --- a/src/functions/randomFact/tests/randomFact.test.js +++ b/src/functions/randomFact/tests/randomFact.test.js @@ -1,18 +1,16 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const randomFact_1 = __importDefault(require('../randomFact')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const randomFact_1 = __importDefault(require("../randomFact")); describe('RandomFact', () => { - it('should return a random fact', () => { - const snappleFacts = [ - { number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }, - { number: 2, fact: 'fact 2' }, - ]; - const fact = (0, randomFact_1.default)(snappleFacts); - expect(fact).toBeDefined(); - }); + it('should return a random fact', () => { + const snappleFacts = [ + { number: 1, fact: 'fact 1' }, + { number: 2, fact: 'fact 2' }, + ]; + const fact = (0, randomFact_1.default)(snappleFacts); + expect(fact).toBeDefined(); + }); }); diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js index c8f4d2a..1180a5d 100644 --- a/src/index.js +++ b/src/index.js @@ -1,55 +1,53 @@ -'use strict'; -var __importDefault = - (this && this.__importDefault) || - function (mod) { - return mod && mod.__esModule ? mod : { default: mod }; - }; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); -const getFactByNumber_1 = __importDefault(require('./functions/getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber')); -const getFacts_1 = __importDefault(require('./functions/getFacts/getFacts')); -const listFacts_1 = __importDefault(require('./functions/listFacts/listFacts')); -const randomFact_1 = __importDefault(require('./functions/randomFact/randomFact')); -const snappleFacts_1 = __importDefault(require('./snappleFacts')); +"use strict"; +var __importDefault = (this && this.__importDefault) || function (mod) { + return (mod && mod.__esModule) ? mod : { "default": mod }; +}; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); +const getFactByNumber_1 = __importDefault(require("./functions/getFactByNumber/getFactByNumber")); +const getFacts_1 = __importDefault(require("./functions/getFacts/getFacts")); +const listFacts_1 = __importDefault(require("./functions/listFacts/listFacts")); +const randomFact_1 = __importDefault(require("./functions/randomFact/randomFact")); +const snappleFacts_1 = __importDefault(require("./snappleFacts")); /** * Represents a collection of Snapple facts. */ class SnappleFacts { - /** - * Creates a new instance of the class. - */ - constructor() { - this.snappleFacts = snappleFacts_1.default; - } - /** - * Retrieves an array of Snapple facts. - * - * @returns {SnappleFact[]} An array of Snapple facts. - */ - getFacts() { - return (0, getFacts_1.default)(); - } - /** - * Retrieves a list of Snapple facts. - * - * @returns An array of strings representing the Snapple facts. - */ - listFacts() { - return (0, listFacts_1.default)(this.snappleFacts); - } - /** - * Retrieves a SnappleFact by its number. - * @param number - The number of the SnappleFact to retrieve. - * @returns The SnappleFact object if found, otherwise undefined. - */ - getFactByNumber(number) { - return (0, getFactByNumber_1.default)({ snappleFacts: this.snappleFacts, number }); - } - /** - * Retrieves a random SnappleFact from the collection of Snapple facts. - * @returns {SnappleFact} A random SnappleFact. - */ - randomFact() { - return (0, randomFact_1.default)(this.snappleFacts); - } + /** + * Creates a new instance of the class. + */ + constructor() { + this.snappleFacts = snappleFacts_1.default; + } + /** + * Retrieves an array of Snapple facts. + * + * @returns {SnappleFact[]} An array of Snapple facts. + */ + getFacts() { + return (0, getFacts_1.default)(); + } + /** + * Retrieves a list of Snapple facts. + * + * @returns An array of strings representing the Snapple facts. + */ + listFacts() { + return (0, listFacts_1.default)(this.snappleFacts); + } + /** + * Retrieves a SnappleFact by its number. + * @param number - The number of the SnappleFact to retrieve. + * @returns The SnappleFact object if found, otherwise undefined. + */ + getFactByNumber(number) { + return (0, getFactByNumber_1.default)({ snappleFacts: this.snappleFacts, number }); + } + /** + * Retrieves a random SnappleFact from the collection of Snapple facts. + * @returns {SnappleFact} A random SnappleFact. + */ + randomFact() { + return (0, randomFact_1.default)(this.snappleFacts); + } } exports.default = SnappleFacts; diff --git a/src/interfaces/snappleFact.js b/src/interfaces/snappleFact.js index db8b17d..c8ad2e5 100644 --- a/src/interfaces/snappleFact.js +++ b/src/interfaces/snappleFact.js @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -'use strict'; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); +"use strict"; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); diff --git a/src/snappleFacts.js b/src/snappleFacts.js index 2e99537..a0f2309 100644 --- a/src/snappleFacts.js +++ b/src/snappleFacts.js @@ -1,4049 +1,4049 @@ -'use strict'; -Object.defineProperty(exports, '__esModule', { value: true }); +"use strict"; +Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true }); const snappleFacts = [ - { - number: 1, - fact: "A goldfish's attention span is three seconds.", - }, - { - number: 2, - fact: "Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons.", - }, - { - number: 3, - fact: 'Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.', - }, - { - number: 4, - fact: 'Slugs have four noses.', - }, - { - number: 5, - fact: 'Camels have three eyelids.', - }, - { - number: 6, - fact: 'A honey bee can fly at 15mph.', - }, - { - number: 7, - fact: 'A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.', - }, - { - number: 8, - fact: 'A bee has five eyelids.', - }, - { - number: 9, - fact: 'The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.', - }, - { - number: 10, - fact: 'Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.', - }, - { - number: 11, - fact: 'Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.', - }, - { - number: 12, - fact: 'Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.', - }, - { - number: 13, - fact: 'Cats have over 100 vocal cords.', - }, - { - number: 14, - fact: "Camel's milk does not curdle.", - }, - { - number: 15, - fact: 'All porcupines float in water.', - }, - { - number: 16, - fact: "The world's termites outweigh the world's humans about 10 to 1.", - }, - { - number: 17, - fact: 'A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.', - }, - { - number: 18, - fact: 'A jellyfish is approximately 95% water.', - }, - { - number: 19, - fact: 'Children tend to grow faster in the spring.', - }, - { - number: 20, - fact: 'Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.', - }, - { - number: 21, - fact: 'Peaches are members of the almond family.', - }, - { - number: 22, - fact: 'Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.', - }, - { - number: 23, - fact: 'The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.', - }, - { - number: 24, - fact: 'The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.', - }, - { - number: 25, - fact: 'The only food that does not spoil is honey.', - }, - { - number: 26, - fact: 'The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.', - }, - { - number: 27, - fact: 'A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.', - }, - { - number: 28, - fact: 'Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.', - }, - { - number: 29, - fact: 'On average a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.', - }, - { - number: 30, - fact: 'Fish have eyelids.', - }, - { - number: 31, - fact: 'The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime while sleeping.', - }, - { - number: 32, - fact: 'There are one million ants to every human in the world.', - }, - { - number: 33, - fact: 'Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!', - }, - { - number: 34, - fact: 'If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.', - }, - { - number: 37, - fact: 'A snail breathes through its foot.', - }, - { - number: 38, - fact: 'Fish cough.', - }, - { - number: 39, - fact: "An ant's sense of smell is stronger than a dog's.", - }, - { - number: 40, - fact: 'It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.', - }, - { - number: 42, - fact: 'Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.', - }, - { - number: 43, - fact: "A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways.", - }, - { - number: 44, - fact: 'The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.', - }, - { - number: 45, - fact: 'Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.', - }, - { - number: 46, - fact: "Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.", - }, - { - number: 47, - fact: 'Giraffes have no vocal cords.', - }, - { - number: 48, - fact: 'Cats can hear ultrasound.', - }, - { - number: 49, - fact: 'Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.', - }, - { - number: 50, - fact: 'Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.', - }, - { - number: 51, - fact: 'There are 63,360 inches in a mile.', - }, - { - number: 52, - fact: 'About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.', - }, - { - number: 54, - fact: 'The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.', - }, - { - number: 55, - fact: 'A human brain weighs about three pounds.', - }, - { - number: 56, - fact: '1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.', - }, - { - number: 57, - fact: 'You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.', - }, - { - number: 58, - fact: 'A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.', - }, - { - number: 59, - fact: 'Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.', - }, - { - number: 60, - fact: 'The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.', - }, - { - number: 61, - fact: 'Pigs can get sunburn.', - }, - { - number: 62, - fact: 'The life span of a taste bud is about ten days.', - }, - { - number: 63, - fact: 'The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.', - }, - { - number: 64, - fact: 'Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.', - }, - { - number: 65, - fact: 'A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.', - }, - { - number: 66, - fact: 'Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.', - }, - { - number: 67, - fact: 'There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.', - }, - { - number: 68, - fact: 'The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."', - }, - { - number: 69, - fact: 'No word in the English language rhymes with month.', - }, - { - number: 70, - fact: 'Caller ID is illegal in California.', - }, - { - number: 71, - fact: 'There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia.', - }, - { - number: 73, - fact: 'The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.', - }, - { - number: 74, - fact: 'You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.', - }, - { - number: 77, - fact: 'No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.', - }, - { - number: 78, - fact: 'Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.', - }, - { - number: 79, - fact: 'There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.', - }, - { - number: 80, - fact: 'About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.', - }, - { - number: 81, - fact: 'Alaska has more caribou than people.', - }, - { - number: 83, - fact: 'Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).', - }, - { - number: 84, - fact: 'Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.', - }, - { - number: 85, - fact: 'The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.', - }, - { - number: 86, - fact: 'Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.', - }, - { - number: 87, - fact: 'A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.', - }, - { - number: 88, - fact: 'A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.', - }, - { - number: 90, - fact: 'The average raindrop falls at seven mph.', - }, - { - number: 92, - fact: 'Fish can drown.', - }, - { - number: 93, - fact: 'A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.', - }, - { - number: 94, - fact: 'Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.', - }, - { - number: 95, - fact: 'Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.', - }, - { - number: 96, - fact: 'The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.', - }, - { - number: 97, - fact: 'A turkey can run at 20 mph.', - }, - { - number: 98, - fact: 'When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.', - }, - { - number: 99, - fact: 'You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.', - }, - { - number: 102, - fact: 'A one-minute kiss burns about 26 calories.', - }, - { - number: 106, - fact: 'You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.', - }, - { - number: 107, - fact: 'You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.', - }, - { - number: 109, - fact: 'Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.', - }, - { - number: 110, - fact: 'Frogs never drink.', - }, - { - number: 111, - fact: 'Only male turkeys gobble.', - }, - { - number: 112, - fact: 'At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.', - }, - { - number: 116, - fact: 'The largest fish is the whale shark – it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.', - }, - { - number: 118, - fact: 'Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.', - }, - { - number: 119, - fact: 'The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.', - }, - { - number: 120, - fact: 'The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.', - }, - { - number: 121, - fact: 'The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.', - }, - { - number: 122, - fact: "A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.", - }, - { - number: 123, - fact: 'Beavers were once the size of bears.', - }, - { - number: 124, - fact: 'Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.', - }, - { - number: 125, - fact: 'Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.', - }, - { - number: 126, - fact: "A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.", - }, - { - number: 127, - fact: "A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.", - }, - { - number: 128, - fact: 'Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.', - }, - { - number: 130, - fact: 'Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.', - }, - { - number: 131, - fact: 'Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.', - }, - { - number: 132, - fact: 'A crocodile cannot move its tongue.', - }, - { - number: 133, - fact: 'Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.', - }, - { - number: 136, - fact: 'Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.', - }, - { - number: 137, - fact: 'The city of Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.', - }, - { - number: 138, - fact: 'Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.', - }, - { - number: 139, - fact: 'Hawaii is the only state with one school district.', - }, - { - number: 141, - fact: 'The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.', - }, - { - number: 142, - fact: 'Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.', - }, - { - number: 143, - fact: '"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.', - }, - { - number: 144, - fact: 'Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.', - }, - { - number: 145, - fact: "Lake Superior is the world's largest lake.", - }, - { - number: 146, - fact: 'The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.', - }, - { - number: 147, - fact: 'Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.', - }, - { - number: 148, - fact: 'The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.', - }, - { - number: 149, - fact: 'Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.', - }, - { - number: 150, - fact: 'The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.', - }, - { - number: 151, - fact: 'The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963.', - }, - { - number: 152, - fact: 'In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph.', - }, - { - number: 153, - fact: 'The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895.', - }, - { - number: 154, - fact: 'Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.', - }, - { - number: 155, - fact: 'In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.', - }, - { - number: 156, - fact: 'Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.', - }, - { - number: 157, - fact: 'The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946.', - }, - { - number: 158, - fact: 'The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.', - }, - { - number: 159, - fact: 'The first TV show to ever be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger."', - }, - { - number: 160, - fact: 'One alternate title that had been considered for NBC\'s hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Caf�."', - }, - { - number: 162, - fact: 'The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.', - }, - { - number: 163, - fact: 'The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."', - }, - { - number: 164, - fact: 'The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.', - }, - { - number: 165, - fact: 'Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.', - }, - { - number: 166, - fact: 'Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.', - }, - { - number: 167, - fact: "You'd have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.", - }, - { - number: 168, - fact: 'One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.', - }, - { - number: 169, - fact: 'The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.', - }, - { - number: 170, - fact: 'In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.', - }, - { - number: 171, - fact: 'The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.', - }, - { - number: 172, - fact: 'The eye makes movements 50 times every second.', - }, - { - number: 174, - fact: "The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.", - }, - { - number: 175, - fact: 'In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.', - }, - { - number: 176, - fact: 'The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.', - }, - { - number: 177, - fact: 'The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.', - }, - { - number: 178, - fact: 'The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.', - }, - { - number: 180, - fact: 'The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.', - }, - { - number: 182, - fact: 'A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.', - }, - { - number: 183, - fact: 'The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.', - }, - { - number: 184, - fact: 'The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I, and N.', - }, - { - number: 185, - fact: 'A male kangaroo is called a boomer.', - }, - { - number: 186, - fact: 'A female kangaroo is called a flyer.', - }, - { - number: 188, - fact: 'Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.', - }, - { - number: 189, - fact: 'The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York.', - }, - { - number: 190, - fact: "Thailand means 'Land of the Free.'", - }, - { - number: 191, - fact: 'Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.', - }, - { - number: 192, - fact: 'Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.', - }, - { - number: 193, - fact: "The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009.", - }, - { - number: 194, - fact: "You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.", - }, - { - number: 195, - fact: 'Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.', - }, - { - number: 196, - fact: 'If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.', - }, - { - number: 197, - fact: 'The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.', - }, - { - number: 198, - fact: 'The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).', - }, - { - number: 201, - fact: 'The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.', - }, - { - number: 203, - fact: 'Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.', - }, - { - number: 206, - fact: 'Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the Sun.', - }, - { - number: 207, - fact: 'Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.', - }, - { - number: 208, - fact: "Add up opposing sides of a dice cue, and you'll always get seven.", - }, - { - number: 211, - fact: 'The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.', - }, - { - number: 212, - fact: 'Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.', - }, - { - number: 215, - fact: 'Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.', - }, - { - number: 217, - fact: 'Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.', - }, - { - number: 218, - fact: 'A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.', - }, - { - number: 219, - fact: 'An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.', - }, - { - number: 220, - fact: 'Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.', - }, - { - number: 221, - fact: 'The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.', - }, - { - number: 224, - fact: "America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.", - }, - { - number: 228, - fact: 'There is a town in South Dakota named Tea.', - }, - { - number: 229, - fact: 'The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.', - }, - { - number: 230, - fact: 'Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.', - }, - { - number: 232, - fact: "The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.", - }, - { - number: 233, - fact: 'There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.', - }, - { - number: 235, - fact: 'The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.', - }, - { - number: 236, - fact: 'Cows give more milk when they listen to music.', - }, - { - number: 237, - fact: 'The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.', - }, - { - number: 238, - fact: "An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.", - }, - { - number: 240, - fact: '"Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.', - }, - { - number: 241, - fact: 'The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.', - }, - { - number: 243, - fact: 'If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.', - }, - { - number: 244, - fact: 'The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.', - }, - { - number: 245, - fact: "The first typewriter was called the 'literary piano.'", - }, - { - number: 246, - fact: "The 'silk' of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.", - }, - { - number: 248, - fact: 'Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.', - }, - { - number: 249, - fact: "The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was 'A patient waiter is no loser.'", - }, - { - number: 250, - fact: 'Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.', - }, - { - number: 251, - fact: 'There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.', - }, - { - number: 253, - fact: 'The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.', - }, - { - number: 254, - fact: 'The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.', - }, - { - number: 255, - fact: 'Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.', - }, - { - number: 256, - fact: 'There are more saunas than cars in Finland.', - }, - { - number: 257, - fact: 'The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.', - }, - { - number: 259, - fact: 'The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.', - }, - { - number: 260, - fact: 'Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.', - }, - { - number: 263, - fact: 'Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.', - }, - { - number: 264, - fact: 'Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.', - }, - { - number: 265, - fact: 'About 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.', - }, - { - number: 267, - fact: 'Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.', - }, - { - number: 268, - fact: 'One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.', - }, - { - number: 269, - fact: 'Horseback riding can improve your posture.', - }, - { - number: 270, - fact: 'Colors like red, yellow, and orange make you hungry.', - }, - { - number: 271, - fact: 'Dim lights reduce your appetite.', - }, - { - number: 272, - fact: 'At birth, a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.', - }, - { - number: 273, - fact: 'Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples.', - }, - { - number: 275, - fact: 'It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey.', - }, - { - number: 276, - fact: 'Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.', - }, - { - number: 278, - fact: 'China only has one time zone.', - }, - { - number: 279, - fact: 'Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.', - }, - { - number: 280, - fact: 'The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.', - }, - { - number: 281, - fact: 'The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick.', - }, - { - number: 282, - fact: 'If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.', - }, - { - number: 283, - fact: 'A compass needle does not point directly north.', - }, - { - number: 284, - fact: 'Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.', - }, - { - number: 285, - fact: 'In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.', - }, - { - number: 286, - fact: 'The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.', - }, - { - number: 287, - fact: 'Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.', - }, - { - number: 288, - fact: 'Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.', - }, - { - number: 291, - fact: 'Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.', - }, - { - number: 292, - fact: 'Heavier, not bigger lemons, produce more juice.', - }, - { - number: 293, - fact: 'Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.', - }, - { - number: 294, - fact: 'No only child has been a U.S. President.', - }, - { - number: 295, - fact: 'Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.', - }, - { - number: 296, - fact: 'In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.', - }, - { - number: 297, - fact: 'David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.', - }, - { - number: 298, - fact: 'The sailfish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.', - }, - { - number: 299, - fact: 'The Library of Congress has over 600 miles of shelves.', - }, - { - number: 300, - fact: 'Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell because that is how they spelled it in the 18th century.', - }, - { - number: 301, - fact: 'William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.', - }, - { - number: 302, - fact: 'Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.', - }, - { - number: 303, - fact: 'Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.', - }, - { - number: 304, - fact: 'In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.', - }, - { - number: 305, - fact: 'The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.', - }, - { - number: 306, - fact: 'In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.', - }, - { - number: 309, - fact: "Ancient Egyptians believed the 'vein of love' ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.", - }, - { - number: 310, - fact: "The word 'facetious' features all the vowels in alphabetical order.", - }, - { - number: 311, - fact: 'The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.', - }, - { - number: 312, - fact: 'A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.', - }, - { - number: 313, - fact: "'O' is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.", - }, - { - number: 314, - fact: "The Japanese word 'judo' means 'the gentle way.'", - }, - { - number: 315, - fact: 'No two lip impressions are the same.', - }, - { - number: 316, - fact: 'It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.', - }, - { - number: 318, - fact: "Top-performing companies are called 'blue chips' after the costliest chips in casinos.", - }, - { - number: 319, - fact: "The name for the space between your eyebrows is 'nasion.'", - }, - { - number: 321, - fact: "The word 'purple' does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.", - }, - { - number: 324, - fact: 'The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.', - }, - { - number: 325, - fact: '75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.', - }, - { - number: 326, - fact: "On average, you'll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.", - }, - { - number: 327, - fact: 'Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.', - }, - { - number: 328, - fact: 'The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.', - }, - { - number: 329, - fact: "The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.", - }, - { - number: 330, - fact: 'The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.', - }, - { - number: 331, - fact: 'The area code in Cape Canaveral, Fl, is 321.', - }, - { - number: 332, - fact: 'Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.', - }, - { - number: 333, - fact: 'Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.', - }, - { - number: 335, - fact: 'Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.', - }, - { - number: 336, - fact: 'The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.', - }, - { - number: 339, - fact: 'There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.', - }, - { - number: 340, - fact: 'There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.', - }, - { - number: 341, - fact: 'Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.', - }, - { - number: 342, - fact: 'California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.', - }, - { - number: 343, - fact: 'The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.', - }, - { - number: 344, - fact: "Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.", - }, - { - number: 345, - fact: 'The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.', - }, - { - number: 346, - fact: "The medical term for writer's cramp is graphospasm.", - }, - { - number: 347, - fact: "A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's.", - }, - { - number: 348, - fact: "It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.", - }, - { - number: 351, - fact: 'Cold water weighs less than hot water.', - }, - { - number: 352, - fact: 'Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.', - }, - { - number: 353, - fact: 'The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.', - }, - { - number: 354, - fact: 'Bamboo can grow three feet in one day.', - }, - { - number: 355, - fact: 'A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.', - }, - { - number: 356, - fact: 'You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.', - }, - { - number: 357, - fact: 'A baboon is a variety of lemon.', - }, - { - number: 358, - fact: 'Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby.', - }, - { - number: 360, - fact: 'Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.', - }, - { - number: 362, - fact: '"Arachibutlphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.', - }, - { - number: 363, - fact: 'Pearls dissolve in vinegar.', - }, - { - number: 364, - fact: 'Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.', - }, - { - number: 366, - fact: 'The center of some golf balls contain honey.', - }, - { - number: 367, - fact: 'International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100-feet long.', - }, - { - number: 368, - fact: 'In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.', - }, - { - number: 369, - fact: "On Valentine's Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building's chapel.", - }, - { - number: 370, - fact: 'Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.', - }, - { - number: 372, - fact: 'A housefly hums in the key of F.', - }, - { - number: 373, - fact: 'Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.', - }, - { - number: 374, - fact: "Thomas Edison coined the word 'hello' and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.", - }, - { - number: 375, - fact: "'Way' is the most frequently used noun in the English language.", - }, - { - number: 376, - fact: "The 'high five' was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.", - }, - { - number: 377, - fact: "'Disco' means 'I learn' in Latin.", - }, - { - number: 378, - fact: 'It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.', - }, - { - number: 381, - fact: 'Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.', - }, - { - number: 382, - fact: 'The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.', - }, - { - number: 383, - fact: 'Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.', - }, - { - number: 384, - fact: 'Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.', - }, - { - number: 386, - fact: "New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.", - }, - { - number: 389, - fact: 'In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.', - }, - { - number: 392, - fact: 'Three out of every six Americans live within fifty miles of where they were born.', - }, - { - number: 393, - fact: "The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named 'Botts dots.'", - }, - { - number: 394, - fact: 'Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.', - }, - { - number: 395, - fact: 'It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.', - }, - { - number: 396, - fact: 'The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.', - }, - { - number: 398, - fact: 'Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.', - }, - { - number: 402, - fact: 'Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.', - }, - { - number: 405, - fact: 'The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.', - }, - { - number: 406, - fact: 'The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.', - }, - { - number: 408, - fact: 'Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.', - }, - { - number: 410, - fact: 'Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.', - }, - { - number: 411, - fact: 'Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.', - }, - { - number: 412, - fact: 'Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.', - }, - { - number: 413, - fact: 'The T-rex�s closest living relative is the chicken.', - }, - { - number: 414, - fact: 'Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.', - }, - { - number: 416, - fact: 'Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.', - }, - { - number: 419, - fact: 'A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.', - }, - { - number: 421, - fact: 'Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.', - }, - { - number: 422, - fact: 'Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.', - }, - { - number: 423, - fact: 'U.S. paper currency isn�t made of paper � it�s actually a blend of cotton and linen.', - }, - { - number: 424, - fact: 'The ZIP in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.', - }, - { - number: 425, - fact: 'Kangaroos can�t walk backward.', - }, - { - number: 426, - fact: 'The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.', - }, - { - number: 427, - fact: 'Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.', - }, - { - number: 428, - fact: 'There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime.', - }, - { - number: 429, - fact: 'There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.', - }, - { - number: 430, - fact: 'One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.', - }, - { - number: 431, - fact: 'A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.', - }, - { - number: 434, - fact: 'In the U.S., a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.', - }, - { - number: 435, - fact: 'Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.', - }, - { - number: 436, - fact: 'Beavers have orange teeth.', - }, - { - number: 437, - fact: 'The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.', - }, - { - number: 438, - fact: 'Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.', - }, - { - number: 439, - fact: 'Snails can sleep for up to three years.', - }, - { - number: 440, - fact: 'The pupils in goats� eyes are rectangular.', - }, - { - number: 441, - fact: 'Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.', - }, - { - number: 442, - fact: 'Bees� wings beat about 11,400 times per minute.', - }, - { - number: 443, - fact: 'The pound sign, or #, is called an octothorp.', - }, - { - number: 444, - fact: 'The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.', - }, - { - number: 445, - fact: 'If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon.', - }, - { - number: 446, - fact: 'You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.', - }, - { - number: 449, - fact: 'Sound travels quicker in water than in air.', - }, - { - number: 450, - fact: 'A group of cats is called a clowder.', - }, - { - number: 451, - fact: 'Human eyes have over two million working parts.', - }, - { - number: 452, - fact: 'There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.', - }, - { - number: 453, - fact: 'Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.', - }, - { - number: 454, - fact: 'Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.', - }, - { - number: 455, - fact: 'Lobsters can live up to 50 years.', - }, - { - number: 457, - fact: 'The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.', - }, - { - number: 458, - fact: 'Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.', - }, - { - number: 459, - fact: 'A group of a dozen or more cows is called a �flink.�', - }, - { - number: 460, - fact: 'Astronauts actually get taller when in space.', - }, - { - number: 461, - fact: 'A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.', - }, - { - number: 462, - fact: 'There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.', - }, - { - number: 463, - fact: 'The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.', - }, - { - number: 465, - fact: 'The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.', - }, - { - number: 466, - fact: 'During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.', - }, - { - number: 467, - fact: 'Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.', - }, - { - number: 468, - fact: 'Camels have three eyelids.', - }, - { - number: 469, - fact: '454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.', - }, - { - number: 470, - fact: 'Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.', - }, - { - number: 472, - fact: 'A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.', - }, - { - number: 473, - fact: 'Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.', - }, - { - number: 478, - fact: 'Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.', - }, - { - number: 481, - fact: 'Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your head and neck.', - }, - { - number: 483, - fact: 'Smile more � every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.', - }, - { - number: 654, - fact: 'New York taxi drivers collectively speak about 60 languages.', - }, - { - number: 658, - fact: 'New York City is made up of 50 islands.', - }, - { - number: 660, - fact: 'The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat.', - }, - { - number: 661, - fact: "Pigs were banished from Philadelphia's city streets in 1710.", - }, - { - number: 663, - fact: "About 40% of America's population lives within a one day drive to Philadelphia.", - }, - { - number: 664, - fact: 'It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.', - }, - { - number: 669, - fact: 'In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City.', - }, - { - number: 674, - fact: 'The oldest living animal ever found was a 405 year-old clam, named Ming by researchers.', - }, - { - number: 675, - fact: 'More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.', - }, - { - number: 676, - fact: 'At 5 feet, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America.', - }, - { - number: 677, - fact: 'A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.', - }, - { - number: 678, - fact: 'Unlike your housecat, the Siberian tiger actually loves to swim!', - }, - { - number: 679, - fact: 'A tiger�s night vision is six times better than a human�s.', - }, - { - number: 680, - fact: 'More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.', - }, - { - number: 681, - fact: 'The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.', - }, - { - number: 682, - fact: 'The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.', - }, - { - number: 683, - fact: 'Wildlife Forever has helped plant more than 132,000 trees in America since its founding in 1987.', - }, - { - number: 684, - fact: 'Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.', - }, - { - number: 685, - fact: 'Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.', - }, - { - number: 686, - fact: 'A Pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.', - }, - { - number: 687, - fact: 'The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.', - }, - { - number: 688, - fact: 'Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.', - }, - { - number: 689, - fact: 'The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.', - }, - { - number: 691, - fact: 'The archer fish can spit water up to 7 feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.', - }, - { - number: 692, - fact: 'The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench.', - }, - { - number: 693, - fact: "A male cricket's ear is located on the tibia of its leg.", - }, - { - number: 694, - fact: 'Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.', - }, - { - number: 695, - fact: 'The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.', - }, - { - number: 698, - fact: 'Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.', - }, - { - number: 704, - fact: 'Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than normal paper.', - }, - { - number: 705, - fact: 'Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.', - }, - { - number: 706, - fact: 'Steel is 100% recyclable.', - }, - { - number: 707, - fact: 'Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.', - }, - { - number: 713, - fact: "An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won't.", - }, - { - number: 714, - fact: 'A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.', - }, - { - number: 715, - fact: 'In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.', - }, - { - number: 716, - fact: 'There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.', - }, - { - number: 717, - fact: 'Mangoes are the most-consumed fruit in the world.', - }, - { - number: 718, - fact: 'Strawberries have an average of 200 seeds.', - }, - { - number: 719, - fact: 'A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.', - }, - { - number: 720, - fact: 'Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.', - }, - { - number: 722, - fact: 'The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.', - }, - { - number: 724, - fact: 'A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.', - }, - { - number: 725, - fact: 'Only female mosquitoes bite.', - }, - { - number: 726, - fact: 'A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.', - }, - { - number: 727, - fact: 'A spider�s silk is stronger than steel.', - }, - { - number: 728, - fact: "The planet Saturn's density is lower than water; in fact, it would float if placed in water.", - }, - { - number: 729, - fact: 'Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness.', - }, - { - number: 730, - fact: 'The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.', - }, - { - number: 731, - fact: 'There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.', - }, - { - number: 732, - fact: 'The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.', - }, - { - number: 733, - fact: 'All scorpions glow.', - }, - { - number: 734, - fact: 'Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.', - }, - { - number: 735, - fact: 'A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.', - }, - { - number: 737, - fact: 'The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.', - }, - { - number: 740, - fact: 'Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of the Cashew family.', - }, - { - number: 741, - fact: 'Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.', - }, - { - number: 742, - fact: "Over half of the world's geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.", - }, - { - number: 743, - fact: 'A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.', - }, - { - number: 744, - fact: 'Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.', - }, - { - number: 745, - fact: 'Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.', - }, - { - number: 746, - fact: 'The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.', - }, - { - number: 747, - fact: 'Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.', - }, - { - number: 748, - fact: "A dog's average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.", - }, - { - number: 750, - fact: 'The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.', - }, - { - number: 751, - fact: 'Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.', - }, - { - number: 752, - fact: 'A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.', - }, - { - number: 753, - fact: 'A group of goats is called a trip.', - }, - { - number: 754, - fact: 'An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.', - }, - { - number: 755, - fact: 'There are more chickens than people in the world.', - }, - { - number: 756, - fact: 'Penguins can jump 6 feet.', - }, - { - number: 757, - fact: 'There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.', - }, - { - number: 758, - fact: 'The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.', - }, - { - number: 759, - fact: 'A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.', - }, - { - number: 760, - fact: 'Dolphins sleep with one eye open.', - }, - { - number: 762, - fact: 'A duck has three eyelids.', - }, - { - number: 763, - fact: 'Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.', - }, - { - number: 764, - fact: 'The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.', - }, - { - number: 766, - fact: 'The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.', - }, - { - number: 768, - fact: 'Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.', - }, - { - number: 769, - fact: 'If a sheep and a goat mate, the offspring is called a geep.', - }, - { - number: 770, - fact: 'Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.', - }, - { - number: 773, - fact: "Mountain goats aren't actually goats. They are antelopes.", - }, - { - number: 774, - fact: 'Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.', - }, - { - number: 775, - fact: 'Bees are born fully grown.', - }, - { - number: 776, - fact: 'Ferret comes from the Latin word for little thief.', - }, - { - number: 777, - fact: 'Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords: one for purring and one for meowing.', - }, - { - number: 778, - fact: 'Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.', - }, - { - number: 779, - fact: 'A group of jellyfish is called a smack.', - }, - { - number: 780, - fact: 'The indentation between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.', - }, - { - number: 782, - fact: 'The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.', - }, - { - number: 784, - fact: 'The human brain is about 80% water.', - }, - { - number: 785, - fact: 'The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.', - }, - { - number: 786, - fact: 'The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.', - }, - { - number: 787, - fact: "Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.", - }, - { - number: 790, - fact: 'Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.', - }, - { - number: 791, - fact: 'The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.', - }, - { - number: 797, - fact: 'It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.', - }, - { - number: 798, - fact: 'Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.', - }, - { - number: 799, - fact: "The official color of California's Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.", - }, - { - number: 801, - fact: 'It is not possible to tickle yourself.', - }, - { - number: 803, - fact: 'Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.', - }, - { - number: 804, - fact: 'There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.', - }, - { - number: 807, - fact: 'Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.', - }, - { - number: 809, - fact: 'French author Michel Thayer published a 233-page novel which has no verbs.', - }, - { - number: 810, - fact: 'Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.', - }, - { - number: 811, - fact: 'The dots on a domino are called pips.', - }, - { - number: 812, - fact: '111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.', - }, - { - number: 814, - fact: 'Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.', - }, - { - number: 815, - fact: 'The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.', - }, - { - number: 816, - fact: 'In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.', - }, - { - number: 817, - fact: 'Karate originated in India.', - }, - { - number: 818, - fact: 'The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.', - }, - { - number: 819, - fact: 'Children grow faster during springtime.', - }, - { - number: 821, - fact: 'It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.', - }, - { - number: 823, - fact: 'Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.', - }, - { - number: 825, - fact: 'Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.', - }, - { - number: 827, - fact: 'Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.', - }, - { - number: 828, - fact: 'Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.', - }, - { - number: 829, - fact: "Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.", - }, - { - number: 831, - fact: 'Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.', - }, - { - number: 833, - fact: 'Children have more taste buds than adults.', - }, - { - number: 834, - fact: 'Right-handed people tend to chew food on the right side and lefties chew on the left.', - }, - { - number: 839, - fact: 'A cucumber consists of 96% water.', - }, - { - number: 842, - fact: 'Vanilla is used to make chocolate.', - }, - { - number: 844, - fact: 'One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.', - }, - { - number: 845, - fact: 'A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.', - }, - { - number: 847, - fact: 'Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.', - }, - { - number: 848, - fact: "Wild camels once roamed Arizona's deserts.", - }, - { - number: 849, - fact: 'New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.', - }, - { - number: 851, - fact: 'Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.', - }, - { - number: 853, - fact: 'Hawaii has its own time zone.', - }, - { - number: 855, - fact: 'Oregon has more ghost towns than any other US state.', - }, - { - number: 860, - fact: 'Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.', - }, - { - number: 861, - fact: 'South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.', - }, - { - number: 863, - fact: 'The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, reckie, which was short for recruit.', - }, - { - number: 864, - fact: 'Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329 lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100 lbs.', - }, - { - number: 865, - fact: 'Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.', - }, - { - number: 866, - fact: 'Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6\'4", while James Madison was the shortest at 5\'4".', - }, - { - number: 867, - fact: 'Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.', - }, - { - number: 868, - fact: 'Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.', - }, - { - number: 869, - fact: 'Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.', - }, - { - number: 870, - fact: 'President Warren G. Harding once lost White House china in a poker game.', - }, - { - number: 871, - fact: 'Ulysses Simpson Grant was fined $20.00 for speeding on his horse.', - }, - { - number: 872, - fact: 'President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the White House bathtub.', - }, - { - number: 873, - fact: "President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named 'Washington Post.'", - }, - { - number: 874, - fact: "Harry S. Truman's middle name is S.", - }, - { - number: 876, - fact: 'The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.', - }, - { - number: 879, - fact: 'Most Koala bears can sleep up to 22 hours a day.', - }, - { - number: 882, - fact: 'In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.', - }, - { - number: 883, - fact: 'Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.', - }, - { - number: 884, - fact: 'A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.', - }, - { - number: 886, - fact: 'The bumblebee bat is one of the smallest mammals on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.', - }, - { - number: 887, - fact: 'The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.', - }, - { - number: 889, - fact: 'The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.', - }, - { - number: 899, - fact: 'The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.', - }, - { - number: 900, - fact: 'Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.', - }, - { - number: 902, - fact: "Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.", - }, - { - number: 903, - fact: 'The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.', - }, - { - number: 904, - fact: "If done perfectly, any Rubik's Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.", - }, - { - number: 905, - fact: 'The side of a hammer is called a cheek.', - }, - { - number: 908, - fact: "In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.", - }, - { - number: 909, - fact: "In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone's cow.", - }, - { - number: 910, - fact: 'Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.', - }, - { - number: 911, - fact: 'A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.', - }, - { - number: 913, - fact: 'The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.', - }, - { - number: 914, - fact: 'A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.', - }, - { - number: 915, - fact: 'At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.', - }, - { - number: 919, - fact: 'The lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.', - }, - { - number: 920, - fact: "Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother's maiden name was also Moon.", - }, - { - number: 922, - fact: 'Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.', - }, - { - number: 924, - fact: 'The highest denomination issued by the U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.', - }, - { - number: 925, - fact: "The White House was originally called the President's Palace. It became The White House in 1901.", - }, - { - number: 926, - fact: 'George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.', - }, - { - number: 927, - fact: 'John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.', - }, - { - number: 928, - fact: 'New York City has over 800 miles of subway track.', - }, - { - number: 929, - fact: "Manatees' eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera.", - }, - { - number: 930, - fact: 'Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.', - }, - { - number: 931, - fact: 'The nothingness of a black hole generates a sound in the key of B flat.', - }, - { - number: 932, - fact: "Horses can't vomit.", - }, - { - number: 934, - fact: 'Babies are born with about 300 separate bones, but adults have 206.', - }, - { - number: 935, - fact: 'Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.', - }, - { - number: 936, - fact: 'A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.', - }, - { - number: 937, - fact: 'Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.', - }, - { - number: 939, - fact: 'The penny was the first U.S. coin to feature the likeness of an actual person.', - }, - { - number: 940, - fact: 'Forty percent of twins invent their own language.', - }, - { - number: 941, - fact: 'In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.', - }, - { - number: 942, - fact: 'Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.', - }, - { - number: 943, - fact: 'George Washington had false teeth made of gold, ivory, and lead - but never wood.', - }, - { - number: 944, - fact: 'Napoleon Bonaparte was actually not short. At 5\' 7", he was average height for his time.', - }, - { - number: 945, - fact: 'The Inca built the largest and wealthiest empire in South America, but had no concept of money.', - }, - { - number: 946, - fact: 'It is against the law to use "The Star Spangled Banner" as dance music in Massachusetts.', - }, - { - number: 947, - fact: 'Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was not actually Egyptian.', - }, - { - number: 948, - fact: 'Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron.', - }, - { - number: 949, - fact: 'Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C., and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.', - }, - { - number: 950, - fact: 'The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.', - }, - { - number: 951, - fact: 'A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.', - }, - { - number: 952, - fact: "Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus' voyage across the ocean, claimed to have only bathed twice in her life.", - }, - { - number: 953, - fact: 'The longest attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years.', - }, - { - number: 955, - fact: 'A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - five times hotter than the sun.', - }, - { - number: 956, - fact: 'At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.', - }, - { - number: 957, - fact: 'In only 7.6 billion years, the sun will reach its maximum size and will shine 3,000 times brighter.', - }, - { - number: 958, - fact: 'The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.', - }, - { - number: 959, - fact: 'Federal law once allowed the government to quarantine people who came in contact with aliens.', - }, - { - number: 960, - fact: "There are 21 'secret' highways that are part of the Interstate Highway System. They are not identified as such by road signs.", - }, - { - number: 961, - fact: 'The aphid insect is born pregnant.', - }, - { - number: 962, - fact: "John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.", - }, - { - number: 964, - fact: 'It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.', - }, - { - number: 965, - fact: 'It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the United Kingdom.', - }, - { - number: 966, - fact: 'Tennis was originally played with bare hands.', - }, - { - number: 968, - fact: '-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperatures as -40 degrees Celsius.', - }, - { - number: 969, - fact: 'U.S. President John Tyler had 15 children, the last of which was born when he was 70 years old.', - }, - { - number: 970, - fact: 'Dolphins are unable to smell.', - }, - { - number: 971, - fact: 'Charlie Chaplin failed to make the finals of a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.', - }, - { - number: 972, - fact: 'The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.', - }, - { - number: 975, - fact: 'The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.', - }, - { - number: 976, - fact: "'K' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because 'S' was being used to denote a sacrifice.", - }, - { - number: 979, - fact: 'A dimpled golf ball produces less drag and flies farther than a smooth golf ball.', - }, - { - number: 980, - fact: 'When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.', - }, - { - number: 981, - fact: 'President Chester A. Arthur owned 80 pairs of pants, which he changed several times per day.', - }, - { - number: 982, - fact: 'Cows do not have upper front teeth.', - }, - { - number: 983, - fact: "Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was farther from the Sun than Pluto. This won't happen again until 2227.", - }, - { - number: 984, - fact: 'When creating a mummy, Ancient Egyptians removed the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.', - }, - { - number: 985, - fact: 'All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996, and 2008 U.S. presidential elections were left-handed.', - }, - { - number: 986, - fact: 'In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.', - }, - { - number: 987, - fact: 'The first American gold rush happened in North Carolina, not California.', - }, - { - number: 989, - fact: 'To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.', - }, - { - number: 990, - fact: 'Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.', - }, - { - number: 991, - fact: 'The Chicago river flows backwards; the flow reversal project was completed in 1900.', - }, - { - number: 992, - fact: 'The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.', - }, - { - number: 993, - fact: 'Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.', - }, - { - number: 994, - fact: 'Baby bunnies are called kittens.', - }, - { - number: 995, - fact: 'A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.', - }, - { - number: 996, - fact: 'Sea otters hold each other�s paws while sleeping so they don�t drift apart.', - }, - { - number: 997, - fact: 'Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.', - }, - { - number: 998, - fact: 'Male pups will intentionally let female pups �win� when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.', - }, - { - number: 999, - fact: 'A cat�s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.', - }, - { - number: 1000, - fact: 'A group of porcupines is called a prickle.', - }, - { - number: 1001, - fact: "99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.", - }, - { - number: 1002, - fact: 'More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.', - }, - { - number: 1003, - fact: 'If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in outer space, they will bond together permanently.', - }, - { - number: 1004, - fact: 'Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.', - }, - { - number: 1005, - fact: 'A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.', - }, - { - number: 1006, - fact: 'Ancient Chinese warriors would show off to their enemies before battle, by juggling.', - }, - { - number: 1007, - fact: 'OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but its first known use was in 1917.', - }, - { - number: 1008, - fact: 'In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.', - }, - { - number: 1009, - fact: 'The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.', - }, - { - number: 1010, - fact: 'Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.', - }, - { - number: 1011, - fact: 'Norway once knighted a penguin.', - }, - { - number: 1012, - fact: 'The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.', - }, - { - number: 1013, - fact: 'It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.', - }, - { - number: 1014, - fact: 'Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.', - }, - { - number: 1015, - fact: 'One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.', - }, - { - number: 1016, - fact: 'Strawberries are grown in every state in the U.S. and every province in Canada.', - }, - { - number: 1017, - fact: 'The phrase, ‘You’re a real peach’ originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.', - }, - { - number: 1018, - fact: 'At latitude 60� south, it is possible to sail clear around the world without touching land.', - }, - { - number: 1019, - fact: 'Interstate 90 is the longest U.S. Interstate Highway with over 3,000 miles from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA.', - }, - { - number: 1020, - fact: 'DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.', - }, - { - number: 1021, - fact: 'Benjamin Franklin invented flippers.', - }, - { - number: 1022, - fact: 'Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.', - }, - { - number: 1023, - fact: 'Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.', - }, - { - number: 1024, - fact: 'Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.', - }, - { - number: 1025, - fact: 'The official taxonomic classification for llamas is Llama glama.', - }, - { - number: 1026, - fact: 'Remove all the space between its atoms and Earth would be the size of a baseball.', - }, - { - number: 1027, - fact: "The soil on Mars is rust color because it's full of rust.", - }, - { - number: 1028, - fact: 'Sound travels up to 15 times faster through steel than air, at speeds up to 19,000 feet per second.', - }, - { - number: 1029, - fact: 'Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.', - }, - { - number: 1030, - fact: 'Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.', - }, - { - number: 1031, - fact: 'An octopus has three hearts.', - }, - { - number: 1133, - fact: 'Only 12 U.S. presidents have been elected to office for two terms and served those two terms.', - }, - { - number: 1134, - fact: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office for four terms prior to the 22nd Amendment.', - }, - { - number: 1135, - fact: 'John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected president, and Ronald Reagan, at 73, the oldest.', - }, - { - number: 1136, - fact: 'James Buchanan is the only bachelor to be elected president.', - }, - { - number: 1137, - fact: 'Eight presidents have died while in office.', - }, - { - number: 1138, - fact: 'Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III but took his stepfather�s last name when his mother remarried.', - }, - { - number: 1139, - fact: 'Prior to the 12th Amendment in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second-highest number of electoral votes was vice president.', - }, - { - number: 1140, - fact: 'George Washington was a successful liquor distributor, making rye whiskey, apple brandy, and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery.', - }, - { - number: 1141, - fact: "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams chipped off a piece of Shakespeare's chair as a souvenir when they visited his home in 1786.", - }, - { - number: 1142, - fact: 'George Washington started losing his permanent teeth in his 20s and had only one natural tooth by the time he was president.', - }, - { - number: 1143, - fact: 'George Washington had false teeth made from many different materials, including an elephant tusk and hippopotamus ivory.', - }, - { - number: 1144, - fact: 'George Washington protected his beloved horses from losing their teeth by making sure they were brushed regularly.', - }, - { - number: 1145, - fact: 'John Quincy Adams regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River.', - }, - { - number: 1146, - fact: 'Calvin Coolidge was so shy he was nicknamed �Silent Cal.�', - }, - { - number: 1147, - fact: 'Calvin Coolidge loved to wear a cowboy hat and ride his mechanical horse.', - }, - { - number: 1148, - fact: 'President Herbert Hoover invented �Hooverball� (a cross between volleyball and tennis using a medicine ball), which he played with his cabinet members.', - }, - { - number: 1149, - fact: 'Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, many of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel.', - }, - { - number: 1150, - fact: 'Martin Van Buren\'s nickname was "Old Kinderhook" because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y.', - }, - { - number: 1151, - fact: 'James Buchanan bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.', - }, - { - number: 1152, - fact: 'Abraham Lincoln was only defeated once in about 300 wrestling matches, making it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with honors as "Outstanding American."', - }, - { - number: 1153, - fact: 'In his youth, President Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor.', - }, - { - number: 1154, - fact: 'Ulysses S. Grant smoked at least 20 cigars a day; citizens sent him at least 10,000 boxes in gratitude after winning the Battle of Shiloh.', - }, - { - number: 1155, - fact: 'Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.', - }, - { - number: 1156, - fact: 'Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House; however, he was so scared of getting electrocuted he�d never touch the light switches himself.', - }, - { - number: 1157, - fact: 'William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good-luck charm.', - }, - { - number: 1158, - fact: "Herbert Hoover's son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.", - }, - { - number: 1159, - fact: 'Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it �the darndest thing I�ve ever seen.�', - }, - { - number: 1161, - fact: "Bill Clinton's face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models.", - }, - { - number: 1162, - fact: 'In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.', - }, - { - number: 1163, - fact: 'Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office.', - }, - { - number: 1164, - fact: 'Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, was the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency.', - }, - { - number: 1165, - fact: 'James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.', - }, - { - number: 1166, - fact: 'There are only three requirements to become U.S. president: must be 35, a natural-born U.S. citizen, and have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years.', - }, - { - number: 1167, - fact: 'To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds.', - }, - { - number: 1168, - fact: 'Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone, and his phone number was extremely easy to remember � simply �1.�', - }, - { - number: 1169, - fact: 'Martin Van Buren was the first president born a U.S. citizen; all presidents before him were British.', - }, - { - number: 1170, - fact: "Andrew Jackson's pet parrot Poll was removed from his funeral for cursing.", - }, - { - number: 1172, - fact: 'There has never been a U.S. president whose name started with the common letter S.', - }, - { - number: 1173, - fact: 'Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender.', - }, - { - number: 1174, - fact: 'Barack Obama is called the 44th president, but is actually the 43rd because Grover Cleveland is counted twice, as he was elected for two terms.', - }, - { - number: 1175, - fact: 'Four times in U.S history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election.', - }, - { - number: 1176, - fact: 'President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese and would use it in the White House to speak privately to each other.', - }, - { - number: 1177, - fact: 'November was chosen to be election month because it fell between harvest and brutal winter weather.', - }, - { - number: 1178, - fact: 'Six of the last 12 U.S. presidents have been left-handed, far greater than the national average of lefties (10%).', - }, - { - number: 1179, - fact: 'William Henry Harrison owned a pet goat while in office.', - }, - { - number: 1180, - fact: 'John Adams had a horse named Cleopatra.', - }, - { - number: 1181, - fact: 'James Madison had a pet parrot who outlived him and his wife.', - }, - { - number: 1182, - fact: "John Quincy Adams' wife raised silkworms.", - }, - { - number: 1183, - fact: 'Martin Van Buren was given two tiger cubs while he was president.', - }, - { - number: 1184, - fact: 'William Harrison had a billy goat at the White House.', - }, - { - number: 1185, - fact: 'Franklin Pierce was gifted two small "sleeve dogs" � he kept one and gave the other to Jefferson Davis.', - }, - { - number: 1186, - fact: "Abraham Lincoln's son had a pet turkey, which he gave a pardon so it wasn't killed and eaten.", - }, - { - number: 1187, - fact: 'James Garfield had a dog appropriately named Veto.', - }, - { - number: 1188, - fact: 'William Taft liked milk so much that he had cows graze on the White House lawn, Pauline being the last in history to graze there.', - }, - { - number: 1189, - fact: 'Calvin Coolidge had a bulldog named Boston Beans, a terrier named Peter Pan, and a pet raccoon.', - }, - { - number: 1190, - fact: 'John Kennedy had a pony named Macaroni.', - }, - { - number: 1191, - fact: 'Lyndon Johnson had two beagles, named Him and Her, for which he was criticized for picking up by their ears.', - }, - { - number: 1192, - fact: 'Jimmy Carter had a dog named Grits, a gift given to his daughter Amy.', - }, - { - number: 1193, - fact: 'Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, which was the first presidential pet to have its own website.', - }, - { - number: 1194, - fact: 'Woodrow Wilson passed the Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school; he also has a PhD.', - }, - { - number: 1195, - fact: 'President Zachary Taylor\'s nickname was "Old Rough and Ready" because of his famed war career.', - }, - { - number: 1196, - fact: "Andrew Jackson was once given a 1,400-pound cheese wheel as a gift, which he served at his outgoing President's Reception.", - }, - { - number: 1197, - fact: 'Blueberry jelly beans were created for Ronald Reagan�s presidential inauguration in 1981.', - }, - { - number: 1198, - fact: 'Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Texas-born president.', - }, - { - number: 1199, - fact: "Lyndon Johnson's family all had the initials LBJ.", - }, - { - number: 1200, - fact: 'Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he�d never get sick.', - }, - { - number: 1201, - fact: 'Gerald Ford worked as a fashion model during college and actually appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.', - }, - { - number: 1202, - fact: 'Dwight Eisenhower was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II.', - }, - { - number: 1203, - fact: 'Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.', - }, - { - number: 1204, - fact: 'Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed, believing it was good for his health.', - }, - { - number: 1205, - fact: "A portion of Grover Cleveland's jaw was artificial, composed of vulcanized rubber.", - }, - { - number: 1206, - fact: 'Russia and the United States are less than three miles apart.', - }, - { - number: 1207, - fact: 'John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July in 1826.', - }, - { - number: 1208, - fact: 'Abraham Lincoln\'s dog Fido was the first "First Dog" to be photographed.', - }, - { - number: 1209, - fact: 'President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs: Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.', - }, - { - number: 1210, - fact: "President Rutherford B. Hayes' cat Siam was the first Siamese cat in the U.S.", - }, - { - number: 1211, - fact: "President John Quincy Adams' pet alligator lived in a White House bathroom.", - }, - { - number: 1212, - fact: 'First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote, "If you love me...you must love my dog."', - }, - { - number: 1213, - fact: "John Adams' pets Satan and Juno were the first dogs to live in the White House.", - }, - { - number: 1214, - fact: 'Calvin Coolidge walked pet raccoon Rebecca on a leash around the White House.', - }, - { - number: 1215, - fact: 'More presidents have had pet birds than cats.', - }, - { - number: 1216, - fact: "Thomas Jefferson's pet mockingbird was trained to eat out of his mouth.", - }, - { - number: 1217, - fact: 'Spotty Bush, an English Springer Spaniel, has been the only presidential pet to live at the White House during two different administrations.', - }, - { - number: 1218, - fact: 'Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride on a railroad train.', - }, - { - number: 1219, - fact: 'Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to wear pants in public.', - }, - { - number: 1220, - fact: 'First Lady Martha Washington was the first American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.', - }, - { - number: 1221, - fact: 'When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.', - }, - { - number: 1222, - fact: 'Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.', - }, - { - number: 1223, - fact: 'Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state, bordered by 8 states.', - }, - { - number: 1224, - fact: 'The cotton candy machine was invented in 1897, by a dentist.', - }, - { - number: 1225, - fact: 'You can�t hum while plugging your nose.', - }, - { - number: 1226, - fact: 'Elephants are afraid of bees.', - }, - { - number: 1227, - fact: 'They used to offer goat carriage rides in Central Park.', - }, - { - number: 1228, - fact: 'Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.', - }, - { - number: 1229, - fact: 'Monday is the only day of the week with an anagram: dynamo.', - }, - { - number: 1230, - fact: 'The only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere is on display in Fort Worth, TX.', - }, - { - number: 1231, - fact: 'Humans are 1-2 centimeters taller in the morning than at night.', - }, - { - number: 1232, - fact: 'Baby giraffes fall up to 6 feet to the ground when they are born.', - }, - { - number: 1233, - fact: 'It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.', - }, - { - number: 1234, - fact: 'The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.', - }, - { - number: 1235, - fact: 'A bald eagle nest can weigh up to two tons.', - }, - { - number: 1236, - fact: 'Worrying squirrels is not tolerated in Missouri.', - }, - { - number: 1237, - fact: 'Wombat droppings are cube-shaped.', - }, - { - number: 1238, - fact: "Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.", - }, - { - number: 1239, - fact: 'Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg.', - }, - { - number: 1240, - fact: 'There are more nerve connections or "synapses" in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy.', - }, - { - number: 1241, - fact: 'There are more English words beginning with the letter "S" than any other letter.', - }, - { - number: 1242, - fact: 'There are more fake than real flamingos.', - }, - { - number: 1243, - fact: 'The word �bride� comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning �to cook.�', - }, - { - number: 1244, - fact: 'The word utopia � an ideal place � ironically comes from a Greek word meaning �no place.�', - }, - { - number: 1245, - fact: 'Los Angeles was originally founded as El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.', - }, - { - number: 1246, - fact: 'The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.', - }, - { - number: 1247, - fact: 'Nine-banded armadillos almost always give birth to four identical quadruplets.', - }, - { - number: 1248, - fact: 'Jellyfish don�t have brains.', - }, - { - number: 1249, - fact: 'Jellyfish can clone themselves.', - }, - { - number: 1250, - fact: 'The koala is the longest-sleeping animal, sleeping an average of 22 hours per day.', - }, - { - number: 1251, - fact: 'Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.', - }, - { - number: 1252, - fact: 'The city of Chicago was raised by over a foot during the 1850s and �60s without disrupting daily life.', - }, - { - number: 1253, - fact: 'Red kangaroos can hop up to 44 mph.', - }, - { - number: 1254, - fact: 'Arkansas has the only active diamond mine in the United States.', - }, - { - number: 1255, - fact: 'Robert Heft, who designed the current U.S. flag in a high school project, received a B- because it "lacked originality."', - }, - { - number: 1256, - fact: 'The first 18-hole golf course in America was built on a sheep farm in 1892.', - }, - { - number: 1257, - fact: 'Most newborns will lose all the hair they are born with in the first six months of life.', - }, - { - number: 1258, - fact: 'Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.', - }, - { - number: 1259, - fact: 'Coconut water was used as an IV drip in WWII when saline solution was in short supply.', - }, - { - number: 1260, - fact: 'Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.', - }, - { - number: 1261, - fact: 'Peanuts are not actually nuts but legumes.', - }, - { - number: 1262, - fact: 'The Oscar statuette is brittanium plated with 24K gold.', - }, - { - number: 1263, - fact: 'The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.', - }, - { - number: 1264, - fact: 'There is a star that is a diamond of ten billion trillion trillion carats.', - }, - { - number: 1265, - fact: 'One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring 50 miles.', - }, - { - number: 1266, - fact: 'A $100,000 bill exists, but was only used by Federal Reserve Banks.', - }, - { - number: 1267, - fact: '10 million bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.', - }, - { - number: 1268, - fact: 'One quarter of all the body�s bones are in the feet.', - }, - { - number: 1269, - fact: 'Lake Havasu City, AZ, has been recorded as the hottest city in the U.S. with average summer temperatures of 94.6.', - }, - { - number: 1270, - fact: 'Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.', - }, - { - number: 1271, - fact: 'One of the first sunscreens was sold in the 1910s under the name Zeozon.', - }, - { - number: 1272, - fact: 'In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.', - }, - { - number: 1273, - fact: 'The largest bill ever issued by the U.S. was a $100,000 bill in 1934.', - }, - { - number: 1274, - fact: 'Kickball is referred to as �soccer-baseball� in some parts of Canada.', - }, - { - number: 1275, - fact: 'Less than 1% of Sweden�s household waste ends up in a dump.', - }, - { - number: 1276, - fact: 'Duck Duck Goose is called Duck Duck Grey Duck in Minnesota.', - }, - { - number: 1277, - fact: 'There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.', - }, - { - number: 1278, - fact: 'Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.', - }, - { - number: 1279, - fact: 'A city in Greece struggles to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.', - }, - { - number: 1280, - fact: 'Elvis was a natural blonde.', - }, - { - number: 1281, - fact: 'On Venus, it snows metal.', - }, - { - number: 1282, - fact: 'Eating 600 bananas is the equivalent of one chest X-ray in terms of radiation.', - }, - { - number: 1283, - fact: 'The potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space.', - }, - { - number: 1284, - fact: 'The average dog can understand over 150 words.', - }, - { - number: 1285, - fact: 'At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.', - }, - { - number: 1286, - fact: 'Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.', - }, - { - number: 1287, - fact: 'Blueberries are also called �star berries.�', - }, - { - number: 1288, - fact: 'There are more varieties of blueberries than states in the U.S.', - }, - { - number: 1289, - fact: 'Typically, blueberries become ripe after 2-5 weeks on a bush.', - }, - { - number: 1290, - fact: 'Love blueberries. Celebrate them all year round, but especially in July, National Blueberry Month.', - }, - { - number: 1291, - fact: 'While blueberries grow in clusters on their bush, the individual blueberries ripen at different times.', - }, - { - number: 1292, - fact: 'The first commercial batch of blueberries came from Whitesbog, New Jersey, in 1916.', - }, - { - number: 1293, - fact: 'The perfect blueberry should be �dusty� in color.', - }, - { - number: 1294, - fact: 'Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.', - }, - { - number: 1295, - fact: '75% of the U.S.�s tart cherries come from Michigan.', - }, - { - number: 1296, - fact: 'Traverse, MI, considers itself the Cherry Capital of the World.', - }, - { - number: 1297, - fact: 'Once cherries have been picked, they don�t ripen.', - }, - { - number: 1298, - fact: 'Make sure to eat a chocolate-covered cherry on January 3; it�s National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day.', - }, - { - number: 1299, - fact: 'On average, how many cherries are in a pound? 44.', - }, - { - number: 1300, - fact: 'The word �cherry� comes from the Turkish town of Cerasus.', - }, - { - number: 1301, - fact: 'A cherry pie is made of about 250 cherries.', - }, - { - number: 1302, - fact: 'Eau Claire, Michigan, is known as �The Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.�', - }, - { - number: 1303, - fact: 'The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.', - }, - { - number: 1304, - fact: 'North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only one country.', - }, - { - number: 1305, - fact: 'Australia�s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.', - }, - { - number: 1306, - fact: 'Emergency phone number in Europe is 112.', - }, - { - number: 1307, - fact: "Canada's postal code for Santa Claus at the North Pole is H0H 0H0.", - }, - { - number: 1308, - fact: 'Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.', - }, - { - number: 1309, - fact: 'In New Zealand, it is illegal to name your twin babies "Fish" and "Chips."', - }, - { - number: 1310, - fact: 'Chocolate bars and blue denim both originated in Guatemala.', - }, - { - number: 1311, - fact: 'In New Zealand, parents have to run baby names by the government for approval.', - }, - { - number: 1312, - fact: 'When a child loses their tooth in Greece, they throw it on the roof as a good luck wish that their adult teeth will be strong.', - }, - { - number: 1313, - fact: 'Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.', - }, - { - number: 1314, - fact: 'No one in Greece can choose not to vote; voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.', - }, - { - number: 1315, - fact: 'Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.', - }, - { - number: 1316, - fact: 'China is large enough to cover about five separate time zones, but only has one national time zone since the Chinese Civil War in 1949.', - }, - { - number: 1317, - fact: 'There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly five types of clicks.', - }, - { - number: 1318, - fact: 'An African elephant can turn the pages of a book with its trunk.', - }, - { - number: 1319, - fact: 'Ancient Egyptians slept on head rests made of wood, ivory, or stone.', - }, - { - number: 1320, - fact: 'A traffic jam once lasted for 11 days in Beijing, China.', - }, - { - number: 1321, - fact: 'Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.', - }, - { - number: 1322, - fact: 'The blue in the Sistine Chapel is made of ground lapis lazuli gems and oils.', - }, - { - number: 1323, - fact: '"The Bridge of Eggs" built in Lima, Peru, was made of mortar that was mixed with egg whites.', - }, - { - number: 1324, - fact: 'In South Korea, you are one year old at birth.', - }, - { - number: 1325, - fact: 'The Great Wall of China is 13,170.7 miles long, over five times the distance from LA to NYC.', - }, - { - number: 1326, - fact: 'The horizontal line between two numbers in a fraction is called a vinculum.', - }, - { - number: 1327, - fact: 'The metal ring on the end of a pencil is called a ferrule.', - }, - { - number: 1328, - fact: 'You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.', - }, - { - number: 1329, - fact: 'There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.', - }, - { - number: 1330, - fact: 'Lake Hillier, in Western Australia, is colored a bright pink.', - }, - { - number: 1331, - fact: 'Spiked dog collars were invented by the Ancient Greeks, who used them on their sheepdogs to protect their necks from wolves.', - }, - { - number: 1332, - fact: '"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence.', - }, - { - number: 1333, - fact: 'On Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds.', - }, - { - number: 1334, - fact: 'Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.', - }, - { - number: 1336, - fact: 'Located on the Detroit River, the J.W. Wescott II is the only floating post office in the U.S. and has its own ZIP Code: 48222.', - }, - { - number: 1337, - fact: 'Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.', - }, - { - number: 1338, - fact: 'Tomatoes have more genes than humans.', - }, - { - number: 1339, - fact: 'In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.', - }, - { - number: 1340, - fact: 'Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.', - }, - { - number: 1341, - fact: 'A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.', - }, - { - number: 1342, - fact: 'You can tell a turtle�s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.', - }, - { - number: 1343, - fact: 'French poodles actually originated in Germany.', - }, - { - number: 1344, - fact: 'Marine mammals swim by moving their tails up and down, while fish swim by moving their tails left and right.', - }, - { - number: 1345, - fact: '�Knocker uppers� were professionals paid to shoot peas at windows. They were replaced by alarm clocks.', - }, - { - number: 1346, - fact: 'An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T. rexes.', - }, - { - number: 1347, - fact: 'Clicking your computer mouse 1,400 times burns one calorie.', - }, - { - number: 1348, - fact: '"Guy" was once an insult for anyone dressed in poor clothes, originating from the burning of effigies of the infamous British rebel, Guy Fawkes.', - }, - { - number: 1349, - fact: 'The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.', - }, - { - number: 1350, - fact: 'The tea bag was created by accident in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.', - }, - { - number: 1351, - fact: 'The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.', - }, - { - number: 1352, - fact: 'A group of frogs is called an army.', - }, - { - number: 1353, - fact: 'Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear.', - }, - { - number: 1354, - fact: 'You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.', - }, - { - number: 1355, - fact: 'There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents, covering much of Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan.', - }, - { - number: 1356, - fact: "The world's largest mountain range is under the sea.", - }, - { - number: 1357, - fact: 'The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.', - }, - { - number: 1358, - fact: "Below the Kalahari Desert lies the world's largest underground lake.", - }, - { - number: 1359, - fact: 'Oregon and Mexico once shared a border.', - }, - { - number: 1360, - fact: 'Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Scandinavian king.', - }, - { - number: 1361, - fact: 'A nun held one of the first PhDs in computer science.', - }, - { - number: 1362, - fact: 'For 67 years, Nintendo only produced playing cards.', - }, - { - number: 1363, - fact: 'The ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes.', - }, - { - number: 1364, - fact: 'A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.', - }, - { - number: 1365, - fact: 'Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.', - }, - { - number: 1366, - fact: 'In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.', - }, - { - number: 1367, - fact: 'Every tweet Americans send is archived by the Library of Congress.', - }, - { - number: 1368, - fact: 'A neutron star is as dense as stuffing 50 million elephants into a thimble.', - }, - { - number: 1369, - fact: 'More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.', - }, - { - number: 1370, - fact: 'An earthquake in 1812 caused the Mississippi River to flow backward.', - }, - { - number: 1371, - fact: 'In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs was still paying a Civil War pension.', - }, - { - number: 1372, - fact: "In Webster's Dictionary, the longest words without repeating letters are �uncopyrightable� and �dermatoglyphics.�", - }, - { - number: 1373, - fact: '�Unprosperousness� is the longest word in which no letter occurs only once.', - }, - { - number: 1374, - fact: '�Typewriter� and �perpetuity� are the longest words that can be typed on a single line of a QWERTY keyboard.', - }, - { - number: 1375, - fact: 'There have been three Olympic games held in countries that no longer exist.', - }, - { - number: 1376, - fact: 'Golf is the only sport to be played on the moon.', - }, - { - number: 1377, - fact: 'The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase meaning "the king is dead."', - }, - { - number: 1378, - fact: 'The brain is the only organ in the human body without pain receptors.', - }, - { - number: 1379, - fact: 'There is a volcano on Mars the size of Arizona.', - }, - { - number: 1380, - fact: 'The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometers away.', - }, - { - number: 1381, - fact: 'Dogs� sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human�s.', - }, - { - number: 1382, - fact: 'A housefly hums in the key of F.', - }, - { - number: 1383, - fact: 'Venus is the only planet in the solar system where the sun rises in the west.', - }, - { - number: 1384, - fact: 'The state animal of Tennessee is a raccoon.', - }, - { - number: 1385, - fact: 'If you were to stretch out a Slinky until it�s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.', - }, - { - number: 1386, - fact: "It's illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia because of its intelligence.", - }, - { - number: 1387, - fact: 'There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.', - }, - { - number: 1388, - fact: 'Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.', - }, - { - number: 1389, - fact: 'Fires spread faster uphill than downhill.', - }, - { - number: 1390, - fact: 'The Florida Everglades is the only place in the world where both alligators and crocodiles live together.', - }, - { - number: 1391, - fact: "Newborns can't cry actual tears. This normally occurs between 3 weeks and 3 months of life.", - }, - { - number: 1392, - fact: 'If you could drive your car upward, you would be in space in less than an hour.', - }, - { - number: 1393, - fact: 'The sun is actually white, but the Earth�s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.', - }, - { - number: 1394, - fact: 'The Earth rotates at a speed of 1,040 MPH.', - }, - { - number: 1395, - fact: 'Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.', - }, - { - number: 1396, - fact: 'The word "aegilops" is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.', - }, - { - number: 1397, - fact: 'Gorillas burp when they are happy.', - }, - { - number: 1398, - fact: 'Because of metal prices, since 2006 the U.S. Mint has had to spend more to make a penny than they are worth.', - }, - { - number: 1399, - fact: '"Never odd or even" spelled backward is still "Never odd or even."', - }, - { - number: 1400, - fact: "In Alabama, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.", - }, - { - number: 1401, - fact: 'Alaska is the most northern, western, and eastern U.S. state.', - }, - { - number: 1402, - fact: "In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.", - }, - { - number: 1403, - fact: 'A group of raccoons is called a gaze.', - }, - { - number: 1404, - fact: 'Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.', - }, - { - number: 1405, - fact: 'Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.', - }, - { - number: 1406, - fact: "The vertical distance between the Earth's highest and lowest points is about 12 miles.", - }, - { - number: 1407, - fact: 'A flock of crows is known as a murder.', - }, - { - number: 1408, - fact: 'Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" to win a bet with his publisher who thought he could not complete a book with only 50 words.', - }, - { - number: 1409, - fact: 'Over 80% of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.', - }, - { - number: 1410, - fact: 'There are more people on Facebook today than there were on the Earth 200 years ago.', - }, - { - number: 1415, - fact: 'Mangoes have noses.', - }, - { - number: 1416, - fact: 'Mangoes can get sunburned.', - }, - { - number: 1417, - fact: 'Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.', - }, - { - number: 1418, - fact: 'The shortest professional baseball player was 3 feet, 7 inches tall.', - }, - { - number: 1419, - fact: 'The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.', - }, - { - number: 1420, - fact: 'The most valuable baseball card ever is worth about $2.8 million.', - }, - { - number: 1421, - fact: 'The paisley pattern is based on the mango.', - }, - { - number: 1422, - fact: 'In India, mango leaves are used to celebrate the birth of a boy.', - }, - { - number: 1423, - fact: 'A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.', - }, - { - number: 1424, - fact: 'When sprinting, professional cyclists produce enough power to power a home.', - }, - { - number: 1425, - fact: 'Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.', - }, - { - number: 1426, - fact: 'During a typical MLB season, approximately 160,000 baseballs are used.', - }, - { - number: 1427, - fact: "The Bible is the world's most shoplifted book.", - }, - { - number: 1428, - fact: "The British pound is the world's oldest currency still in use.", - }, - { - number: 1429, - fact: 'The Great Lakes have more than 30,000 islands.', - }, - { - number: 1430, - fact: 'Mountain lions can whistle.', - }, - { - number: 1431, - fact: 'While rabbits have near-perfect 360-degree panoramic vision, their most critical blind spot is directly in front of their nose.', - }, - { - number: 1432, - fact: 'When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.', - }, - { - number: 1433, - fact: 'Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.', - }, - { - number: 1434, - fact: 'There have been 85 recorded instances of a pitcher striking out four batters in one inning.', - }, - { - number: 1435, - fact: '3.7 million bags of ballpark peanuts are eaten every year at ballparks.', - }, - { - number: 1436, - fact: 'Shakespeare created the name Jessica for his play "The Merchant of Venice."', - }, - { - number: 1437, - fact: 'Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.', - }, - { - number: 1438, - fact: 'The mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II has a passport.', - }, - { - number: 1439, - fact: 'It is physically impossible for a pig to look at the sky.', - }, - { - number: 1440, - fact: 'There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.', - }, - { - number: 1441, - fact: 'A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.', - }, - { - number: 1442, - fact: "A shrimp's heart is in its head.", - }, - { - number: 1443, - fact: 'A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.', - }, - { - number: 1444, - fact: 'Light could travel around the earth nearly 7.5 times in one second.', - }, - { - number: 1445, - fact: 'A single lightning bolt contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.', - }, - { - number: 1446, - fact: 'About one in every 2,000 babies is born with teeth.', - }, - { - number: 1447, - fact: 'Water can boil and freeze at the same time.', - }, - { - number: 1448, - fact: 'Less than 5% of the population needs just 4-5 hours of sleep.', - }, - { - number: 1449, - fact: 'Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.', - }, - { - number: 1450, - fact: "Astronauts can't burp in space.", - }, - { - number: 1451, - fact: 'An Immaculate Inning is when a pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches.', - }, - { - number: 1452, - fact: 'Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god.', - }, - { - number: 1453, - fact: 'Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.', - }, - { - number: 1454, - fact: 'In the 1960s, the U.S. government tried to turn a cat into a spy.', - }, - { - number: 1455, - fact: 'Movie trailers used to come on at the end of movies, but no one stuck around to watch them.', - }, - { - number: 1456, - fact: 'MLB umpires often wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.', - }, - { - number: 1457, - fact: 'It is possible to record four outs in one-half inning of baseball.', - }, - { - number: 1458, - fact: 'There are nine different ways to reach first base.', - }, - { - number: 1459, - fact: "During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be the size and weight of a baseball, since 'any young American man should be able to properly throw it.'", - }, - { - number: 1460, - fact: 'Philadelphia zookeeper Jim Murray sent baseball scores to telegraph offices by carrier pigeon every half inning in 1883.', - }, - { - number: 1461, - fact: 'From 1845 through 1867, home base was circular, made of iron, painted or enameled white, and 12 inches in diameter.', - }, - { - number: 1462, - fact: "President Bill Clinton's first presidential pitch (on April 4, 1993) was the first ever from the pitcher's mound to the catcher's mitt.", - }, - { - number: 1463, - fact: 'Thunder is actually the sound caused by lightning.', - }, - { - number: 1464, - fact: 'Australia is wider than the moon.', - }, - { - number: 1465, - fact: '85% of people only breathe out of one nostril at a time.', - }, - { - number: 1466, - fact: 'An albatross can sleep while it flies.', - }, - { - number: 1467, - fact: 'In a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday.', - }, - { - number: 1468, - fact: 'Bubble wrap was originally invented as a wallpaper in 1957.', - }, - { - number: 1469, - fact: 'There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.', - }, - { - number: 1470, - fact: 'Of the 193 members of the United Nations, Britain has invaded 171 of them.', - }, - { - number: 1471, - fact: "The Apollo 11 guidance computer was no more powerful than today's pocket calculator.", - }, - { - number: 1472, - fact: '�Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia� is the technical name for brain freeze.', - }, - { - number: 1473, - fact: "Earth is actually located inside the sun's atmosphere.", - }, - { - number: 1474, - fact: 'The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.', - }, - { - number: 1475, - fact: 'If you drilled a hole through the earth, it would take 42 minutes to fall through it.', - }, - { - number: 1476, - fact: 'The planet 55 Cancri e is made of diamonds and would be worth $26.9 nonillion.', - }, - { - number: 1477, - fact: 'France used the guillotine as recently as 1977.', - }, - { - number: 1478, - fact: 'Sloths move so slow that algae can grow on them.', - }, - { - number: 1479, - fact: 'Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.', - }, - { - number: 1480, - fact: 'Michelangelo hated painting and wrote a poem about it.', - }, - { - number: 1481, - fact: 'The dwarf lantern shark grows to be no bigger than a human hand.', - }, - { - number: 1482, - fact: '"Tools of ignorance" is a nickname for the equipment worn by catchers.', - }, - { - number: 1483, - fact: 'More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical MLB game.', - }, - { - number: 1484, - fact: 'Pitchers were prohibited from delivering the ball overhand for much of the 19th century.', - }, - { - number: 1485, - fact: 'Walks were scored as hits during the 1887 season.', - }, - { - number: 1486, - fact: 'A regulation baseball has 108 stitches.', - }, - { - number: 1487, - fact: 'A "can of corn" is a routine fly ball hit to an outfielder.', - }, - { - number: 1488, - fact: 'Baseball is played in more than 100 countries.', - }, - { - number: 1489, - fact: '�Take Me Out to the Ballgame� was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, both of whom had never been to a baseball game.', - }, - { - number: 1490, - fact: 'A baseball pitcher�s curveball can break up to 17 inches.', - }, - { - number: 1491, - fact: 'MLB baseballs are rubbed in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud, a unique mud found only near Palmyra, New Jersey.', - }, - { - number: 1492, - fact: 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 30,000 baseball cards as part of the Jefferson R. Burdick collection.', - }, - { - number: 1493, - fact: 'William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the U.S., began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910.', - }, - { - number: 1494, - fact: 'MLB National League (1876) is the oldest professional sports league that is still in existence.', - }, - { - number: 1495, - fact: 'The first modern-day World Series game was played in 1903.', - }, - { - number: 1496, - fact: 'The Mendoza Line is a .200 batting average.', - }, - { - number: 1497, - fact: 'There are 13 different pitches a pitcher can throw in baseball.', - }, - { - number: 1498, - fact: 'The first MLB All-Star Game was played in 1933.', - }, - { - number: 1499, - fact: 'A player was once ejected from an MLB game for sleeping during the game.', - }, - { - number: 1500, - fact: 'Baseball hits that bounced over the fence were considered home runs until the 1930s.', - }, - { - number: 1501, - fact: 'The most home runs ever recorded in an MLB season is 73.', - }, - { - number: 1502, - fact: 'The highest batting average ever recorded in an MLB season is .440.', - }, - { - number: 1503, - fact: 'MLB has not had a lefty play catcher since 1989.', - }, - { - number: 1504, - fact: 'The longest MLB game went 26 innings.', - }, + { + number: 1, + fact: 'A goldfish\'s attention span is three seconds.', + }, + { + number: 2, + fact: 'Animals that lay eggs don\'t have belly buttons.', + }, + { + number: 3, + fact: 'Beavers can hold their breath for 45 minutes under water.', + }, + { + number: 4, + fact: 'Slugs have four noses.', + }, + { + number: 5, + fact: 'Camels have three eyelids.', + }, + { + number: 6, + fact: 'A honey bee can fly at 15mph.', + }, + { + number: 7, + fact: 'A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day.', + }, + { + number: 8, + fact: 'A bee has five eyelids.', + }, + { + number: 9, + fact: 'The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.', + }, + { + number: 10, + fact: 'Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.', + }, + { + number: 11, + fact: 'Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.', + }, + { + number: 12, + fact: 'Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backward.', + }, + { + number: 13, + fact: 'Cats have over 100 vocal cords.', + }, + { + number: 14, + fact: 'Camel\'s milk does not curdle.', + }, + { + number: 15, + fact: 'All porcupines float in water.', + }, + { + number: 16, + fact: 'The world\'s termites outweigh the world\'s humans about 10 to 1.', + }, + { + number: 17, + fact: 'A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.', + }, + { + number: 18, + fact: 'A jellyfish is approximately 95% water.', + }, + { + number: 19, + fact: 'Children tend to grow faster in the spring.', + }, + { + number: 20, + fact: 'Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower.', + }, + { + number: 21, + fact: 'Peaches are members of the almond family.', + }, + { + number: 22, + fact: 'Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work.', + }, + { + number: 23, + fact: 'The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.', + }, + { + number: 24, + fact: 'The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.', + }, + { + number: 25, + fact: 'The only food that does not spoil is honey.', + }, + { + number: 26, + fact: 'The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.', + }, + { + number: 27, + fact: 'A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.', + }, + { + number: 28, + fact: 'Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying.', + }, + { + number: 29, + fact: 'On average a human being will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.', + }, + { + number: 30, + fact: 'Fish have eyelids.', + }, + { + number: 31, + fact: 'The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime while sleeping.' + }, + { + number: 32, + fact: 'There are one million ants to every human in the world.', + }, + { + number: 33, + fact: 'Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!', + }, + { + number: 34, + fact: 'If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white.', + }, + { + number: 37, + fact: 'A snail breathes through its foot.', + }, + { + number: 38, + fact: 'Fish cough.', + }, + { + number: 39, + fact: 'An ant\'s sense of smell is stronger than a dog\'s.', + }, + { + number: 40, + fact: 'It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.', + }, + { + number: 42, + fact: 'Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open.', + }, + { + number: 43, + fact: 'A cat\'s lower jaw cannot move sideways.', + }, + { + number: 44, + fact: 'The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.', + }, + { + number: 45, + fact: 'Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day.', + }, + { + number: 46, + fact: 'Elephants are the only mammals that can\'t jump.', + }, + { + number: 47, + fact: 'Giraffes have no vocal cords.', + }, + { + number: 48, + fact: 'Cats can hear ultrasound.', + }, + { + number: 49, + fact: 'Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.', + }, + { + number: 50, + fact: 'Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.', + }, + { + number: 51, + fact: 'There are 63,360 inches in a mile.', + }, + { + number: 52, + fact: 'About 11% of the people in the world are left-handed.', + }, + { + number: 54, + fact: 'The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.', + }, + { + number: 55, + fact: 'A human brain weighs about three pounds.', + }, + { + number: 56, + fact: '1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.', + }, + { + number: 57, + fact: 'You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.', + }, + { + number: 58, + fact: 'A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 miles an hour.', + }, + { + number: 59, + fact: 'Brain waves can be used to power an electric train.', + }, + { + number: 60, + fact: 'The tongue is the fastest healing part of the body.', + }, + { + number: 61, + fact: 'Pigs can get sunburn.', + }, + { + number: 62, + fact: 'The life span of a taste bud is about ten days.', + }, + { + number: 63, + fact: 'The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.', + }, + { + number: 64, + fact: 'Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.', + }, + { + number: 65, + fact: 'A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.', + }, + { + number: 66, + fact: 'Americans, on average, eat 18 acres of pizza a day.', + }, + { + number: 67, + fact: 'There are 18 different animal shapes in the animal cracker zoo.', + }, + { + number: 68, + fact: 'The longest one-syllable word is "screeched."', + }, + { + number: 69, + fact: 'No word in the English language rhymes with month.', + }, + { + number: 70, + fact: 'Caller ID is illegal in California.', + }, + { + number: 71, + fact: 'There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia.', + }, + { + number: 73, + fact: 'The average person spends 2 weeks over his/her lifetime waiting for a traffic light to change.', + }, + { + number: 74, + fact: 'You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.', + }, + { + number: 77, + fact: 'No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times.', + }, + { + number: 78, + fact: 'Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.', + }, + { + number: 79, + fact: 'There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.', + }, + { + number: 80, + fact: 'About 18 percent of animal owners share their bed with their pet.', + }, + { + number: 81, + fact: 'Alaska has more caribou than people.', + }, + { + number: 83, + fact: 'Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros).', + }, + { + number: 84, + fact: 'Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.', + }, + { + number: 85, + fact: 'The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.', + }, + { + number: 86, + fact: 'Until the 19th century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.', + }, + { + number: 87, + fact: 'A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance.', + }, + { + number: 88, + fact: 'A ten gallon hat holds less than one gallon of liquid.', + }, + { + number: 90, + fact: 'The average raindrop falls at seven mph.', + }, + { + number: 92, + fact: 'Fish can drown.', + }, + { + number: 93, + fact: 'A kangaroo can jump 30 feet.', + }, + { + number: 94, + fact: 'Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.', + }, + { + number: 95, + fact: 'Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.', + }, + { + number: 96, + fact: 'The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.', + }, + { + number: 97, + fact: 'A turkey can run at 20 mph.', + }, + { + number: 98, + fact: 'When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.', + }, + { + number: 99, + fact: 'You burn about 20 calories per hour chewing gum.', + }, + { + number: 102, + fact: 'A one-minute kiss burns about 26 calories.', + }, + { + number: 106, + fact: 'You would weigh less on the top of a mountain than at sea level.', + }, + { + number: 107, + fact: 'You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.', + }, + { + number: 109, + fact: 'Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight.', + }, + { + number: 110, + fact: 'Frogs never drink.', + }, + { + number: 111, + fact: 'Only male turkeys gobble.', + }, + { + number: 112, + fact: 'At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.', + }, + { + number: 116, + fact: 'The largest fish is the whale shark – it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.', + }, + { + number: 118, + fact: 'Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.', + }, + { + number: 119, + fact: 'The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.', + }, + { + number: 120, + fact: 'The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.', + }, + { + number: 121, + fact: 'The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin.', + }, + { + number: 122, + fact: 'A duck can\'t walk without bobbing its head.', + }, + { + number: 123, + fact: 'Beavers were once the size of bears.', + }, + { + number: 124, + fact: 'Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.', + }, + { + number: 125, + fact: 'Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.', + }, + { + number: 126, + fact: 'A pigeon\'s feathers are heavier than its bones.', + }, + { + number: 127, + fact: 'A hummingbird\'s heart beats 1,400 times a minute.', + }, + { + number: 128, + fact: 'Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.', + }, + { + number: 130, + fact: 'Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.', + }, + { + number: 131, + fact: 'Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.', + }, + { + number: 132, + fact: 'A crocodile cannot move its tongue.', + }, + { + number: 133, + fact: 'Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass.', + }, + { + number: 136, + fact: 'Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.', + }, + { + number: 137, + fact: 'The city of Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.', + }, + { + number: 138, + fact: 'Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee commercially.', + }, + { + number: 139, + fact: 'Hawaii is the only state with one school district.', + }, + { + number: 141, + fact: 'The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington.', + }, + { + number: 142, + fact: 'Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below.', + }, + { + number: 143, + fact: '"Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state.', + }, + { + number: 144, + fact: 'Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.', + }, + { + number: 145, + fact: 'Lake Superior is the world\'s largest lake.', + }, + { + number: 146, + fact: 'The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan.', + }, + { + number: 147, + fact: 'Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic.', + }, + { + number: 148, + fact: 'The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.', + }, + { + number: 149, + fact: 'Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.', + }, + { + number: 150, + fact: 'The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.', + }, + { + number: 151, + fact: 'The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963.', + }, + { + number: 152, + fact: 'In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph.', + }, + { + number: 153, + fact: 'The speed limit in NYC was eight mph in 1895.', + }, + { + number: 154, + fact: 'Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.', + }, + { + number: 155, + fact: 'In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC.', + }, + { + number: 156, + fact: 'Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco.', + }, + { + number: 157, + fact: 'The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946.', + }, + { + number: 158, + fact: 'The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles.', + }, + { + number: 159, + fact: 'The first TV show to ever be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger."', + }, + { + number: 160, + fact: 'One alternate title that had been considered for NBC\'s hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Caf�."', + }, + { + number: 162, + fact: 'The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit.', + }, + { + number: 163, + fact: 'The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."', + }, + { + number: 164, + fact: 'The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.', + }, + { + number: 165, + fact: 'Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.', + }, + { + number: 166, + fact: 'Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.', + }, + { + number: 167, + fact: 'You\'d have to play ping-pong for about 12 hours to lose one pound.', + }, + { + number: 168, + fact: 'One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.', + }, + { + number: 169, + fact: 'The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.', + }, + { + number: 170, + fact: 'In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names.', + }, + { + number: 171, + fact: 'The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips.', + }, + { + number: 172, + fact: 'The eye makes movements 50 times every second.', + }, + { + number: 174, + fact: 'The world\'s biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.', + }, + { + number: 175, + fact: 'In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.', + }, + { + number: 176, + fact: 'The first bike was called a hobbyhorse.', + }, + { + number: 177, + fact: 'The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.', + }, + { + number: 178, + fact: 'The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00.', + }, + { + number: 180, + fact: 'The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.', + }, + { + number: 182, + fact: 'A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.', + }, + { + number: 183, + fact: 'The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. has 365 steps to represent every day of the year.', + }, + { + number: 184, + fact: 'The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I, and N.', + }, + { + number: 185, + fact: 'A male kangaroo is called a boomer.', + }, + { + number: 186, + fact: 'A female kangaroo is called a flyer.', + }, + { + number: 188, + fact: 'Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth.', + }, + { + number: 189, + fact: 'The Sahara Desert stretches farther than the distance from California to New York.', + }, + { + number: 190, + fact: 'Thailand means \'Land of the Free.\'', + }, + { + number: 191, + fact: 'Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.', + }, + { + number: 192, + fact: 'Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.', + }, + { + number: 193, + fact: 'The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won\'t happen again until 6009.', + }, + { + number: 194, + fact: 'You don\'t have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.', + }, + { + number: 195, + fact: 'Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.', + }, + { + number: 196, + fact: 'If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.', + }, + { + number: 197, + fact: 'The first person crossed Niagara Falls by tightrope in 1859.', + }, + { + number: 198, + fact: 'The U.S. is the largest country named after a real person (Amerigo Vespucci).', + }, + { + number: 201, + fact: 'The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.', + }, + { + number: 203, + fact: 'Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.', + }, + { + number: 206, + fact: 'Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the Sun.', + }, + { + number: 207, + fact: 'Before 1687 clocks were made with only an hour hand.', + }, + { + number: 208, + fact: 'Add up opposing sides of a dice cue, and you\'ll always get seven.', + }, + { + number: 211, + fact: 'The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.', + }, + { + number: 212, + fact: 'Galapagos turtles can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.', + }, + { + number: 215, + fact: 'Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.', + }, + { + number: 217, + fact: 'Blackboard chalk contains no chalk.', + }, + { + number: 218, + fact: 'A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.', + }, + { + number: 219, + fact: 'An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.', + }, + { + number: 220, + fact: 'Porcupines each have 30,000 quills.', + }, + { + number: 221, + fact: 'The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.', + }, + { + number: 224, + fact: 'America\'s 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.', + }, + { + number: 228, + fact: 'There is a town in South Dakota named Tea.', + }, + { + number: 229, + fact: 'The Caspian Sea is actually a lake.', + }, + { + number: 230, + fact: 'Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.', + }, + { + number: 232, + fact: 'The blue whale\'s heart is the size of a small car.', + }, + { + number: 233, + fact: 'There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right side up.', + }, + { + number: 235, + fact: 'The biggest pig in recorded history weighed almost one ton.', + }, + { + number: 236, + fact: 'Cows give more milk when they listen to music.', + }, + { + number: 237, + fact: 'The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.', + }, + { + number: 238, + fact: 'An ostrich\'s brain is smaller than its eye.', + }, + { + number: 240, + fact: '"Challenger Deep" is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.', + }, + { + number: 241, + fact: 'The only cactus plantation in the world is in Mississippi.', + }, + { + number: 243, + fact: 'If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.', + }, + { + number: 244, + fact: 'The watermelon seed-spitting world record is about 70 feet.', + }, + { + number: 245, + fact: 'The first typewriter was called the \'literary piano.\'', + }, + { + number: 246, + fact: 'The \'silk\' of a spider is stronger than steel threads of the same diameter.', + }, + { + number: 248, + fact: 'Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S.', + }, + { + number: 249, + fact: 'The 1st public message to be transmitted via Morse code was \'A patient waiter is no loser.\'', + }, + { + number: 250, + fact: 'Mongolians invented lemonade around 1299 A.D.', + }, + { + number: 251, + fact: 'There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.', + }, + { + number: 253, + fact: 'The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.', + }, + { + number: 254, + fact: 'The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl.', + }, + { + number: 255, + fact: 'Among North Atlantic lobsters, about 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.', + }, + { + number: 256, + fact: 'There are more saunas than cars in Finland.', + }, + { + number: 257, + fact: 'The first food eaten in space by a U.S. astronaut was applesauce.', + }, + { + number: 259, + fact: 'The original recipe for chocolate contained chili powder instead of sugar.', + }, + { + number: 260, + fact: 'Underwater hockey is played with a 3-pound puck.', + }, + { + number: 263, + fact: 'Bowling pins need to tip over a mere 7 1/2 degrees to fall down.', + }, + { + number: 264, + fact: 'Your breathing rate increases when you start to type.', + }, + { + number: 265, + fact: 'About 90% of all garlic consumed in the U.S. comes from Gilroy, CA.', + }, + { + number: 267, + fact: 'Double Dutch jump rope is considered a cross-training sport.', + }, + { + number: 268, + fact: 'One lemon tree will produce about 1,500 lemons a year.', + }, + { + number: 269, + fact: 'Horseback riding can improve your posture.', + }, + { + number: 270, + fact: 'Colors like red, yellow, and orange make you hungry.', + }, + { + number: 271, + fact: 'Dim lights reduce your appetite.', + }, + { + number: 272, + fact: 'At birth, a human has 350 bones, but only 206 bones when full grown.', + }, + { + number: 273, + fact: 'Each year, the average American eats about 15 pounds of apples.', + }, + { + number: 275, + fact: 'It took the first man to walk around the world four years, three months and 16 days to complete his journey.', + }, + { + number: 276, + fact: 'Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse.', + }, + { + number: 278, + fact: 'China only has one time zone.', + }, + { + number: 279, + fact: 'Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.', + }, + { + number: 280, + fact: 'The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.', + }, + { + number: 281, + fact: 'The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick.', + }, + { + number: 282, + fact: 'If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.', + }, + { + number: 283, + fact: 'A compass needle does not point directly north.', + }, + { + number: 284, + fact: 'Mt. Everest has grown one foot over the last 100 years.', + }, + { + number: 285, + fact: 'In ancient Rome, lemons were used as an antidote to all poisons.', + }, + { + number: 286, + fact: 'The height of the Eiffel Tower varies by as much as 6 inches depending on the temperature.', + }, + { + number: 287, + fact: 'Wisconsin has points located farther east than parts of Florida.', + }, + { + number: 288, + fact: 'Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4 states at the same time.', + }, + { + number: 291, + fact: 'Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.', + }, + { + number: 292, + fact: 'Heavier, not bigger lemons, produce more juice.', + }, + { + number: 293, + fact: 'Vermont is the only New England state without a seacoast.', + }, + { + number: 294, + fact: 'No only child has been a U.S. President.', + }, + { + number: 295, + fact: 'Leonardo da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing with the other.', + }, + { + number: 296, + fact: 'In 1860, Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the suggestion of an 11-year-old girl.', + }, + { + number: 297, + fact: 'David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for only one day.', + }, + { + number: 298, + fact: 'The sailfish has been clocked at speeds of over 60 miles per hour.', + }, + { + number: 299, + fact: 'The Library of Congress has over 600 miles of shelves.', + }, + { + number: 300, + fact: 'Pennsylvania is misspelled on the Liberty Bell because that is how they spelled it in the 18th century.', + }, + { + number: 301, + fact: 'William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day: April 23.', + }, + { + number: 302, + fact: 'Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.', + }, + { + number: 303, + fact: 'Napoleon suffered from a fear of cats.', + }, + { + number: 304, + fact: 'In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New York City were powered by electricity.', + }, + { + number: 305, + fact: 'The 4th Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat and gamble at the same time.', + }, + { + number: 306, + fact: 'In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.', + }, + { + number: 309, + fact: 'Ancient Egyptians believed the \'vein of love\' ran from the third finger on the left hand to the heart.', + }, + { + number: 310, + fact: 'The word \'facetious\' features all the vowels in alphabetical order.', + }, + { + number: 311, + fact: 'The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.', + }, + { + number: 312, + fact: 'A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.', + }, + { + number: 313, + fact: '\'O\' is the oldest letter of the alphabet, dating back to 3000 B.C.', + }, + { + number: 314, + fact: 'The Japanese word \'judo\' means \'the gentle way.\'', + }, + { + number: 315, + fact: 'No two lip impressions are the same.', + }, + { + number: 316, + fact: 'It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of the Mona Lisa.', + }, + { + number: 318, + fact: 'Top-performing companies are called \'blue chips\' after the costliest chips in casinos.', + }, + { + number: 319, + fact: 'The name for the space between your eyebrows is \'nasion.\'', + }, + { + number: 321, + fact: 'The word \'purple\' does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.', + }, + { + number: 324, + fact: 'The legs of bats are too weak to support their weight, so they hang upside down.', + }, + { + number: 325, + fact: '75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower.', + }, + { + number: 326, + fact: 'On average, you\'ll spend a year of your life looking for misplaced objects.', + }, + { + number: 327, + fact: 'Chewing gum was invented in New York City in 1870 by Thomas Adams.', + }, + { + number: 328, + fact: 'The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.', + }, + { + number: 329, + fact: 'The world\'s first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.', + }, + { + number: 330, + fact: 'The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a place to anchor blimps.', + }, + { + number: 331, + fact: 'The area code in Cape Canaveral, Fl, is 321.', + }, + { + number: 332, + fact: 'Ohio is the only U.S. state that does not have a rectangular flag.', + }, + { + number: 333, + fact: 'Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S.', + }, + { + number: 335, + fact: 'Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.', + }, + { + number: 336, + fact: 'The last letter to be added to our alphabet was J.', + }, + { + number: 339, + fact: 'There are more doughnut shops per capita in Canada than in any other country.', + }, + { + number: 340, + fact: 'There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.', + }, + { + number: 341, + fact: 'Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe daylight savings time.', + }, + { + number: 342, + fact: 'California and Arizona grow approximately 95% of the fresh lemons in the U.S.', + }, + { + number: 343, + fact: 'The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.', + }, + { + number: 344, + fact: 'Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree\'s rings reveal its age.', + }, + { + number: 345, + fact: 'The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.', + }, + { + number: 346, + fact: 'The medical term for writer\'s cramp is graphospasm.', + }, + { + number: 347, + fact: 'A male firefly\'s light is twice as bright as a female\'s.', + }, + { + number: 348, + fact: 'It is estimated that the world\'s oceans contain 10 billion tons of gold.', + }, + { + number: 351, + fact: 'Cold water weighs less than hot water.', + }, + { + number: 352, + fact: 'Storm clouds hold about 6 trillion raindrops.', + }, + { + number: 353, + fact: 'The weight of the moon is 81 billion tons.', + }, + { + number: 354, + fact: 'Bamboo can grow three feet in one day.', + }, + { + number: 355, + fact: 'A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm.', + }, + { + number: 356, + fact: 'You exhale air at 15 m.p.h.', + }, + { + number: 357, + fact: 'A baboon is a variety of lemon.', + }, + { + number: 358, + fact: 'Butterflies were formerly known by the name Flutterby.', + }, + { + number: 360, + fact: 'Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.', + }, + { + number: 362, + fact: '"Arachibutlphobia" is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.', + }, + { + number: 363, + fact: 'Pearls dissolve in vinegar.', + }, + { + number: 364, + fact: 'Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are hungry.', + }, + { + number: 366, + fact: 'The center of some golf balls contain honey.', + }, + { + number: 367, + fact: 'International tug of war rules state that the rope must be over 100-feet long.', + }, + { + number: 368, + fact: 'In 2003, a 6-year-old from Naples, FL was ticketed for not having a permit for her lemonade stand.', + }, + { + number: 369, + fact: 'On Valentine\'s Day, there is no charge to get married in the Empire State Building\'s chapel.', + }, + { + number: 370, + fact: 'Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.', + }, + { + number: 372, + fact: 'A housefly hums in the key of F.', + }, + { + number: 373, + fact: 'Endocarp is the edible pulp inside a lemon.', + }, + { + number: 374, + fact: 'Thomas Edison coined the word \'hello\' and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.', + }, + { + number: 375, + fact: '\'Way\' is the most frequently used noun in the English language.', + }, + { + number: 376, + fact: 'The \'high five\' was introduced by a professional baseball player in 1977.', + }, + { + number: 377, + fact: '\'Disco\' means \'I learn\' in Latin.', + }, + { + number: 378, + fact: 'It costs the U.S. government 2.5 cents to produce a quarter.', + }, + { + number: 381, + fact: 'Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.', + }, + { + number: 382, + fact: 'The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.', + }, + { + number: 383, + fact: 'Mount Katahdin in Maine is the first place in the U.S. to get sunlight each morning.', + }, + { + number: 384, + fact: 'Each year, the average person walks the distance from NY to Miami.', + }, + { + number: 386, + fact: 'New York City\'s public school students represent about 188 different countries.', + }, + { + number: 389, + fact: 'In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.', + }, + { + number: 392, + fact: 'Three out of every six Americans live within fifty miles of where they were born.', + }, + { + number: 393, + fact: 'The raised bump reflectors on U.S. roads are named \'Botts dots.\'', + }, + { + number: 394, + fact: 'Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.', + }, + { + number: 395, + fact: 'It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.', + }, + { + number: 396, + fact: 'The dragonfly can reach speeds of up to 36 mph.', + }, + { + number: 398, + fact: 'Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.', + }, + { + number: 402, + fact: 'Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.', + }, + { + number: 405, + fact: 'The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is as thick as the Alps Mountains are high.', + }, + { + number: 406, + fact: 'The deepest place in the ocean is about seven miles deep.', + }, + { + number: 408, + fact: 'Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.', + }, + { + number: 410, + fact: 'Bald eagles can swim using a stroke similar to the butterfly stroke.', + }, + { + number: 411, + fact: 'Lifejackets used to be filled with sunflower seeds for flotation.', + }, + { + number: 412, + fact: 'Two trees can create enough oxygen for a family of four.', + }, + { + number: 413, + fact: 'The T-rex�s closest living relative is the chicken.', + }, + { + number: 414, + fact: 'Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.', + }, + { + number: 416, + fact: 'Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.', + }, + { + number: 419, + fact: 'A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.', + }, + { + number: 421, + fact: 'Greyhounds can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour.', + }, + { + number: 422, + fact: 'Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.', + }, + { + number: 423, + fact: 'U.S. paper currency isn�t made of paper � it�s actually a blend of cotton and linen.', + }, + { + number: 424, + fact: 'The ZIP in the ZIP code stands for Zone Improvement Plan.', + }, + { + number: 425, + fact: 'Kangaroos can�t walk backward.', + }, + { + number: 426, + fact: 'The Empire State Building has 73 elevators.', + }, + { + number: 427, + fact: 'Lemons ripen after you pick them, but oranges do not.', + }, + { + number: 428, + fact: 'There are 118 ridges on the edge of a United States dime.', + }, + { + number: 429, + fact: 'There are 336 dimples on a regulation American golf ball.', + }, + { + number: 430, + fact: 'One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.', + }, + { + number: 431, + fact: 'A twit is the technical term for a pregnant goldfish.', + }, + { + number: 434, + fact: 'In the U.S., a pig has to weigh more than 180 lbs to be called a hog.', + }, + { + number: 435, + fact: 'Bloodhounds can track a man by smell for up to 100 miles.', + }, + { + number: 436, + fact: 'Beavers have orange teeth.', + }, + { + number: 437, + fact: 'The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.', + }, + { + number: 438, + fact: 'Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year.', + }, + { + number: 439, + fact: 'Snails can sleep for up to three years.', + }, + { + number: 440, + fact: 'The pupils in goats� eyes are rectangular.', + }, + { + number: 441, + fact: 'Jousting is the official sport in the state of Maryland.', + }, + { + number: 442, + fact: 'Bees� wings beat about 11,400 times per minute.', + }, + { + number: 443, + fact: 'The pound sign, or #, is called an octothorp.', + }, + { + number: 444, + fact: 'The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.', + }, + { + number: 445, + fact: 'If there are two full moons in a month, the second one is called a blue moon.', + }, + { + number: 446, + fact: 'You breathe in about 13 pints of air every minute.', + }, + { + number: 449, + fact: 'Sound travels quicker in water than in air.', + }, + { + number: 450, + fact: 'A group of cats is called a clowder.', + }, + { + number: 451, + fact: 'Human eyes have over two million working parts.', + }, + { + number: 452, + fact: 'There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on your tongue.', + }, + { + number: 453, + fact: 'Raindrops can fall as fast as 20 miles per hour.', + }, + { + number: 454, + fact: 'Polar bear fur is transparent, not white.', + }, + { + number: 455, + fact: 'Lobsters can live up to 50 years.', + }, + { + number: 457, + fact: 'The first traffic light was in use in London in 1868, before the advent of cars.', + }, + { + number: 458, + fact: 'Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.', + }, + { + number: 459, + fact: 'A group of a dozen or more cows is called a �flink.�', + }, + { + number: 460, + fact: 'Astronauts actually get taller when in space.', + }, + { + number: 461, + fact: 'A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.', + }, + { + number: 462, + fact: 'There is a ranch in Texas that is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island.', + }, + { + number: 463, + fact: 'The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.', + }, + { + number: 465, + fact: 'The great white shark can go up to three months between meals.', + }, + { + number: 466, + fact: 'During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.', + }, + { + number: 467, + fact: 'Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun once.', + }, + { + number: 468, + fact: 'Camels have three eyelids.', + }, + { + number: 469, + fact: '454 U.S. dollar bills weigh exactly one pound.', + }, + { + number: 470, + fact: 'Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.', + }, + { + number: 472, + fact: 'A nautical mile is 800 feet longer than a land mile.', + }, + { + number: 473, + fact: 'Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.', + }, + { + number: 478, + fact: 'Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.', + }, + { + number: 481, + fact: 'Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your head and neck.', + }, + { + number: 483, + fact: 'Smile more � every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.', + }, + { + number: 654, + fact: 'New York taxi drivers collectively speak about 60 languages.', + }, + { + number: 658, + fact: 'New York City is made up of 50 islands.', + }, + { + number: 660, + fact: 'The strike note of The Liberty Bell is E flat.', + }, + { + number: 661, + fact: 'Pigs were banished from Philadelphia\'s city streets in 1710.', + }, + { + number: 663, + fact: 'About 40% of America\'s population lives within a one day drive to Philadelphia.', + }, + { + number: 664, + fact: 'It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.', + }, + { + number: 669, + fact: 'In the game Monopoly, the properties are named after streets in Atlantic City.', + }, + { + number: 674, + fact: 'The oldest living animal ever found was a 405 year-old clam, named Ming by researchers.', + }, + { + number: 675, + fact: 'More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.', + }, + { + number: 676, + fact: 'At 5 feet, the whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America.', + }, + { + number: 677, + fact: 'A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.', + }, + { + number: 678, + fact: 'Unlike your housecat, the Siberian tiger actually loves to swim!', + }, + { + number: 679, + fact: 'A tiger�s night vision is six times better than a human�s.', + }, + { + number: 680, + fact: 'More Siberian tigers live in zoos than in the wild.', + }, + { + number: 681, + fact: 'The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.', + }, + { + number: 682, + fact: 'The giant panda can eat up to 83 lbs of bamboo a day.', + }, + { + number: 683, + fact: 'Wildlife Forever has helped plant more than 132,000 trees in America since its founding in 1987.', + }, + { + number: 684, + fact: 'Manhattan Island was once home to as many different species as Yellowstone National Park.', + }, + { + number: 685, + fact: 'Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.', + }, + { + number: 686, + fact: 'A Pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.', + }, + { + number: 687, + fact: 'The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.', + }, + { + number: 688, + fact: 'Flying fish leap out of the water at 20 mph or more, and can glide for over 500 feet.', + }, + { + number: 689, + fact: 'The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25 mph.', + }, + { + number: 691, + fact: 'The archer fish can spit water up to 7 feet to shoot down bugs from overhanging leaves.', + }, + { + number: 692, + fact: 'The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench.', + }, + { + number: 693, + fact: 'A male cricket\'s ear is located on the tibia of its leg.', + }, + { + number: 694, + fact: 'Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.', + }, + { + number: 695, + fact: 'The National Park Service manages over 350 parks on 80 million acres of public land.', + }, + { + number: 698, + fact: 'Stepping out for a walk every day can actually help you sleep better at night.', + }, + { + number: 704, + fact: 'Recycled paper is made using 40% less energy than normal paper.', + }, + { + number: 705, + fact: 'Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.', + }, + { + number: 706, + fact: 'Steel is 100% recyclable.', + }, + { + number: 707, + fact: 'Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.', + }, + { + number: 713, + fact: 'An egg that is fresh will sink in water, but a stale one won\'t.', + }, + { + number: 714, + fact: 'A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.', + }, + { + number: 715, + fact: 'In one day, a full-grown oak tree expels 7 tons of water through its leaves.', + }, + { + number: 716, + fact: 'There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.', + }, + { + number: 717, + fact: 'Mangoes are the most-consumed fruit in the world.', + }, + { + number: 718, + fact: 'Strawberries have an average of 200 seeds.', + }, + { + number: 719, + fact: 'A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.', + }, + { + number: 720, + fact: 'Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.', + }, + { + number: 722, + fact: 'The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.', + }, + { + number: 724, + fact: 'A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.', + }, + { + number: 725, + fact: 'Only female mosquitoes bite.', + }, + { + number: 726, + fact: 'A polar bear cannot be seen by an infrared camera, due to its transparent fur.', + }, + { + number: 727, + fact: 'A spider�s silk is stronger than steel.', + }, + { + number: 728, + fact: 'The planet Saturn\'s density is lower than water; in fact, it would float if placed in water.', + }, + { + number: 729, + fact: 'Twins have a very high occurrence of left handedness.', + }, + { + number: 730, + fact: 'The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.', + }, + { + number: 731, + fact: 'There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.', + }, + { + number: 732, + fact: 'The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.', + }, + { + number: 733, + fact: 'All scorpions glow.', + }, + { + number: 734, + fact: 'Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.', + }, + { + number: 735, + fact: 'A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.', + }, + { + number: 737, + fact: 'The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.', + }, + { + number: 740, + fact: 'Poison Ivy is not Ivy and Poison Oak is not an Oak. They are both part of the Cashew family.', + }, + { + number: 741, + fact: 'Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.', + }, + { + number: 742, + fact: 'Over half of the world\'s geysers are found in Yellowstone National Park.', + }, + { + number: 743, + fact: 'A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.', + }, + { + number: 744, + fact: 'Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.', + }, + { + number: 745, + fact: 'Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.', + }, + { + number: 746, + fact: 'The only insect that can turn its head is a praying mantis.', + }, + { + number: 747, + fact: 'Alaska was bought from Russia for about 2 cents an acre.', + }, + { + number: 748, + fact: 'A dog\'s average body temperature is 101 degrees Fahrenheit.', + }, + { + number: 750, + fact: 'The common garden worm has five pairs of hearts.', + }, + { + number: 751, + fact: 'Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.', + }, + { + number: 752, + fact: 'A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.', + }, + { + number: 753, + fact: 'A group of goats is called a trip.', + }, + { + number: 754, + fact: 'An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.', + }, + { + number: 755, + fact: 'There are more chickens than people in the world.', + }, + { + number: 756, + fact: 'Penguins can jump 6 feet.', + }, + { + number: 757, + fact: 'There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.', + }, + { + number: 758, + fact: 'The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko.', + }, + { + number: 759, + fact: 'A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.', + }, + { + number: 760, + fact: 'Dolphins sleep with one eye open.', + }, + { + number: 762, + fact: 'A duck has three eyelids.', + }, + { + number: 763, + fact: 'Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.', + }, + { + number: 764, + fact: 'The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.', + }, + { + number: 766, + fact: 'The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as five minutes.', + }, + { + number: 768, + fact: 'Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.', + }, + { + number: 769, + fact: 'If a sheep and a goat mate, the offspring is called a geep.', + }, + { + number: 770, + fact: 'Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.', + }, + { + number: 773, + fact: 'Mountain goats aren\'t actually goats. They are antelopes.', + }, + { + number: 774, + fact: 'Koalas only drink water in extreme heat or drought.', + }, + { + number: 775, + fact: 'Bees are born fully grown.', + }, + { + number: 776, + fact: 'Ferret comes from the Latin word for little thief.', + }, + { + number: 777, + fact: 'Cats have 2 sets of vocal cords: one for purring and one for meowing.', + }, + { + number: 778, + fact: 'Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.', + }, + { + number: 779, + fact: 'A group of jellyfish is called a smack.', + }, + { + number: 780, + fact: 'The indentation between the nose and the upper lip is called the philtrum.', + }, + { + number: 782, + fact: 'The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.', + }, + { + number: 784, + fact: 'The human brain is about 80% water.', + }, + { + number: 785, + fact: 'The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.', + }, + { + number: 786, + fact: 'The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.', + }, + { + number: 787, + fact: 'Like fingerprints, everyone\'s tongue print is different.', + }, + { + number: 790, + fact: 'Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.', + }, + { + number: 791, + fact: 'The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.', + }, + { + number: 797, + fact: 'It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.', + }, + { + number: 798, + fact: 'Tennessee was previously named Franklin after Benjamin Franklin.', + }, + { + number: 799, + fact: 'The official color of California\'s Golden Gate Bridge is International Orange.', + }, + { + number: 801, + fact: 'It is not possible to tickle yourself.', + }, + { + number: 803, + fact: 'Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.', + }, + { + number: 804, + fact: 'There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.', + }, + { + number: 807, + fact: 'Shakespeare invented the word assassination and bump.', + }, + { + number: 809, + fact: 'French author Michel Thayer published a 233-page novel which has no verbs.', + }, + { + number: 810, + fact: 'Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.', + }, + { + number: 811, + fact: 'The dots on a domino are called pips.', + }, + { + number: 812, + fact: '111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.', + }, + { + number: 814, + fact: 'Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.', + }, + { + number: 815, + fact: 'The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.', + }, + { + number: 816, + fact: 'In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.', + }, + { + number: 817, + fact: 'Karate originated in India.', + }, + { + number: 818, + fact: 'The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.', + }, + { + number: 819, + fact: 'Children grow faster during springtime.', + }, + { + number: 821, + fact: 'It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.', + }, + { + number: 823, + fact: 'Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.', + }, + { + number: 825, + fact: 'Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.', + }, + { + number: 827, + fact: 'Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.', + }, + { + number: 828, + fact: 'Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.', + }, + { + number: 829, + fact: 'Women\'s hearts typically beat faster than men\'s hearts.', + }, + { + number: 831, + fact: 'Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.', + }, + { + number: 833, + fact: 'Children have more taste buds than adults.', + }, + { + number: 834, + fact: 'Right-handed people tend to chew food on the right side and lefties chew on the left.', + }, + { + number: 839, + fact: 'A cucumber consists of 96% water.', + }, + { + number: 842, + fact: 'Vanilla is used to make chocolate.', + }, + { + number: 844, + fact: 'One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.', + }, + { + number: 845, + fact: 'A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.', + }, + { + number: 847, + fact: 'Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.', + }, + { + number: 848, + fact: 'Wild camels once roamed Arizona\'s deserts.', + }, + { + number: 849, + fact: 'New York was the first state to require cars to have license plates.', + }, + { + number: 851, + fact: 'Miami installed the first ATM for rollerbladers.', + }, + { + number: 853, + fact: 'Hawaii has its own time zone.', + }, + { + number: 855, + fact: 'Oregon has more ghost towns than any other US state.', + }, + { + number: 860, + fact: 'Cleveland, OH is home to the first electric traffic lights.', + }, + { + number: 861, + fact: 'South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.', + }, + { + number: 863, + fact: 'The term rookies comes from a Civil War term, reckie, which was short for recruit.', + }, + { + number: 864, + fact: 'Taft was the heaviest U.S. President at 329 lbs; Madison was the smallest at 100 lbs.', + }, + { + number: 865, + fact: 'Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.', + }, + { + number: 866, + fact: 'Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at 6\'4", while James Madison was the shortest at 5\'4".', + }, + { + number: 867, + fact: 'Franklin Roosevelt was related to 5 U.S. Presidents by blood and 6 by marriage.', + }, + { + number: 868, + fact: 'Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.', + }, + { + number: 869, + fact: 'Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.', + }, + { + number: 870, + fact: 'President Warren G. Harding once lost White House china in a poker game.', + }, + { + number: 871, + fact: 'Ulysses Simpson Grant was fined $20.00 for speeding on his horse.', + }, + { + number: 872, + fact: 'President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs and once got stuck in the White House bathtub.', + }, + { + number: 873, + fact: 'President William McKinley had a pet parrot that he named \'Washington Post.\'', + }, + { + number: 874, + fact: 'Harry S. Truman\'s middle name is S.', + }, + { + number: 876, + fact: 'The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.', + }, + { + number: 879, + fact: 'Most Koala bears can sleep up to 22 hours a day.', + }, + { + number: 882, + fact: 'In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within 6 years, the population grew to 2 million.', + }, + { + number: 883, + fact: 'Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.', + }, + { + number: 884, + fact: 'A strand from the web of a golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.', + }, + { + number: 886, + fact: 'The bumblebee bat is one of the smallest mammals on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.', + }, + { + number: 887, + fact: 'The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.', + }, + { + number: 889, + fact: 'The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.', + }, + { + number: 899, + fact: 'The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.', + }, + { + number: 900, + fact: 'Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.', + }, + { + number: 902, + fact: 'Barbie\'s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.', + }, + { + number: 903, + fact: 'The first TV toy commercial aired in 1946 for Mr. Potato Head.', + }, + { + number: 904, + fact: 'If done perfectly, any Rubik\'s Cube combination can be solved in 17 turns.', + }, + { + number: 905, + fact: 'The side of a hammer is called a cheek.', + }, + { + number: 908, + fact: 'In Athens, Greece, a driver\'s license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.', + }, + { + number: 909, + fact: 'In Texas, it is illegal to graffiti someone\'s cow.', + }, + { + number: 910, + fact: 'Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.', + }, + { + number: 911, + fact: 'A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.', + }, + { + number: 913, + fact: 'The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.', + }, + { + number: 914, + fact: 'A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.', + }, + { + number: 915, + fact: 'At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.', + }, + { + number: 919, + fact: 'The lollipop was named after one of the most famous Racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.', + }, + { + number: 920, + fact: 'Buzz Aldrin was one of the first men on the moon. His mother\'s maiden name was also Moon.', + }, + { + number: 922, + fact: 'Maine is the only state with a one-syllable name.', + }, + { + number: 924, + fact: 'The highest denomination issued by the U.S. was the 100,000 dollar bill.', + }, + { + number: 925, + fact: 'The White House was originally called the President\'s Palace. It became The White House in 1901.', + }, + { + number: 926, + fact: 'George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.', + }, + { + number: 927, + fact: 'John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson.', + }, + { + number: 928, + fact: 'New York City has over 800 miles of subway track.', + }, + { + number: 929, + fact: 'Manatees\' eyes close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera.', + }, + { + number: 930, + fact: 'Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet.', + }, + { + number: 931, + fact: 'The nothingness of a black hole generates a sound in the key of B flat.', + }, + { + number: 932, + fact: 'Horses can\'t vomit.', + }, + { + number: 934, + fact: 'Babies are born with about 300 separate bones, but adults have 206.', + }, + { + number: 935, + fact: 'Newborn babies cannot cry tears for at least three weeks.', + }, + { + number: 936, + fact: 'A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.', + }, + { + number: 937, + fact: 'Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.', + }, + { + number: 939, + fact: 'The penny was the first U.S. coin to feature the likeness of an actual person.', + }, + { + number: 940, + fact: 'Forty percent of twins invent their own language.', + }, + { + number: 941, + fact: 'In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.', + }, + { + number: 942, + fact: 'Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.', + }, + { + number: 943, + fact: 'George Washington had false teeth made of gold, ivory, and lead - but never wood.', + }, + { + number: 944, + fact: 'Napoleon Bonaparte was actually not short. At 5\' 7", he was average height for his time.', + }, + { + number: 945, + fact: 'The Inca built the largest and wealthiest empire in South America, but had no concept of money.', + }, + { + number: 946, + fact: 'It is against the law to use "The Star Spangled Banner" as dance music in Massachusetts.', + }, + { + number: 947, + fact: 'Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was not actually Egyptian.', + }, + { + number: 948, + fact: 'Early football fields were painted with both horizontal and vertical lines, creating a pattern that resembled a gridiron.', + }, + { + number: 949, + fact: 'Two national capitals are named after U.S. presidents: Washington, D.C., and Monrovia, the capital of Liberia.', + }, + { + number: 950, + fact: 'The first spam message was transmitted over telegraph wires in 1864.', + }, + { + number: 951, + fact: 'A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.', + }, + { + number: 952, + fact: 'Queen Isabella I of Spain, who funded Columbus\' voyage across the ocean, claimed to have only bathed twice in her life.', + }, + { + number: 953, + fact: 'The longest attack of hiccups ever lasted 68 years.', + }, + { + number: 955, + fact: 'A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit - five times hotter than the sun.', + }, + { + number: 956, + fact: 'At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.', + }, + { + number: 957, + fact: 'In only 7.6 billion years, the sun will reach its maximum size and will shine 3,000 times brighter.', + }, + { + number: 958, + fact: 'The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.', + }, + { + number: 959, + fact: 'Federal law once allowed the government to quarantine people who came in contact with aliens.', + }, + { + number: 960, + fact: 'There are 21 \'secret\' highways that are part of the Interstate Highway System. They are not identified as such by road signs.', + }, + { + number: 961, + fact: 'The aphid insect is born pregnant.', + }, + { + number: 962, + fact: 'John Wilkes Booth\'s brother saved the life of Abraham Lincoln\'s son.', + }, + { + number: 964, + fact: 'It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.', + }, + { + number: 965, + fact: 'It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the United Kingdom.', + }, + { + number: 966, + fact: 'Tennis was originally played with bare hands.', + }, + { + number: 968, + fact: '-40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperatures as -40 degrees Celsius.', + }, + { + number: 969, + fact: 'U.S. President John Tyler had 15 children, the last of which was born when he was 70 years old.', + }, + { + number: 970, + fact: 'Dolphins are unable to smell.', + }, + { + number: 971, + fact: 'Charlie Chaplin failed to make the finals of a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.', + }, + { + number: 972, + fact: 'The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss. The name that lost was Boston.', + }, + { + number: 975, + fact: 'The letter J is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.', + }, + { + number: 976, + fact: '\'K\' was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because \'S\' was being used to denote a sacrifice.', + }, + { + number: 979, + fact: 'A dimpled golf ball produces less drag and flies farther than a smooth golf ball.', + }, + { + number: 980, + fact: 'When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.', + }, + { + number: 981, + fact: 'President Chester A. Arthur owned 80 pairs of pants, which he changed several times per day.', + }, + { + number: 982, + fact: 'Cows do not have upper front teeth.', + }, + { + number: 983, + fact: 'Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was farther from the Sun than Pluto. This won\'t happen again until 2227.', + }, + { + number: 984, + fact: 'When creating a mummy, Ancient Egyptians removed the brain by inserting a hook through the nostrils.', + }, + { + number: 985, + fact: 'All of the major candidates in the 1992, 1996, and 2008 U.S. presidential elections were left-handed.', + }, + { + number: 986, + fact: 'In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.', + }, + { + number: 987, + fact: 'The first American gold rush happened in North Carolina, not California.', + }, + { + number: 989, + fact: 'To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.', + }, + { + number: 990, + fact: 'Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.', + }, + { + number: 991, + fact: 'The Chicago river flows backwards; the flow reversal project was completed in 1900.', + }, + { + number: 992, + fact: 'The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.', + }, + { + number: 993, + fact: 'Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.', + }, + { + number: 994, + fact: 'Baby bunnies are called kittens.', + }, + { + number: 995, + fact: 'A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.', + }, + { + number: 996, + fact: 'Sea otters hold each other�s paws while sleeping so they don�t drift apart.', + }, + { + number: 997, + fact: 'Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.', + }, + { + number: 998, + fact: 'Male pups will intentionally let female pups �win� when they play-fight so they can get to know them better.', + }, + { + number: 999, + fact: 'A cat�s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.', + }, + { + number: 1000, + fact: 'A group of porcupines is called a prickle.', + }, + { + number: 1001, + fact: '99% of our solar system\'s mass is the sun.', + }, + { + number: 1002, + fact: 'More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.', + }, + { + number: 1003, + fact: 'If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in outer space, they will bond together permanently.', + }, + { + number: 1004, + fact: 'Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth.', + }, + { + number: 1005, + fact: 'A soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.', + }, + { + number: 1006, + fact: 'Ancient Chinese warriors would show off to their enemies before battle, by juggling.', + }, + { + number: 1007, + fact: 'OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but its first known use was in 1917.', + }, + { + number: 1008, + fact: 'In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.', + }, + { + number: 1009, + fact: 'The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.', + }, + { + number: 1010, + fact: 'Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.', + }, + { + number: 1011, + fact: 'Norway once knighted a penguin.', + }, + { + number: 1012, + fact: 'The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.', + }, + { + number: 1013, + fact: 'It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.', + }, + { + number: 1014, + fact: 'Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.', + }, + { + number: 1015, + fact: 'One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.', + }, + { + number: 1016, + fact: 'Strawberries are grown in every state in the U.S. and every province in Canada.', + }, + { + number: 1017, + fact: 'The phrase, ‘You’re a real peach’ originated from the tradition of giving peaches to loved ones.', + }, + { + number: 1018, + fact: 'At latitude 60� south, it is possible to sail clear around the world without touching land.', + }, + { + number: 1019, + fact: 'Interstate 90 is the longest U.S. Interstate Highway with over 3,000 miles from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA.', + }, + { + number: 1020, + fact: 'DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.', + }, + { + number: 1021, + fact: 'Benjamin Franklin invented flippers.', + }, + { + number: 1022, + fact: 'Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.', + }, + { + number: 1023, + fact: 'Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.', + }, + { + number: 1024, + fact: 'Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.', + }, + { + number: 1025, + fact: 'The official taxonomic classification for llamas is Llama glama.', + }, + { + number: 1026, + fact: 'Remove all the space between its atoms and Earth would be the size of a baseball.', + }, + { + number: 1027, + fact: 'The soil on Mars is rust color because it\'s full of rust.', + }, + { + number: 1028, + fact: 'Sound travels up to 15 times faster through steel than air, at speeds up to 19,000 feet per second.', + }, + { + number: 1029, + fact: 'Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.', + }, + { + number: 1030, + fact: 'Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.', + }, + { + number: 1031, + fact: 'An octopus has three hearts.', + }, + { + number: 1133, + fact: 'Only 12 U.S. presidents have been elected to office for two terms and served those two terms.', + }, + { + number: 1134, + fact: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to office for four terms prior to the 22nd Amendment.', + }, + { + number: 1135, + fact: 'John F. Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected president, and Ronald Reagan, at 73, the oldest.', + }, + { + number: 1136, + fact: 'James Buchanan is the only bachelor to be elected president.', + }, + { + number: 1137, + fact: 'Eight presidents have died while in office.', + }, + { + number: 1138, + fact: 'Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III but took his stepfather�s last name when his mother remarried.', + }, + { + number: 1139, + fact: 'Prior to the 12th Amendment in 1804, the presidential candidate who received the second-highest number of electoral votes was vice president.', + }, + { + number: 1140, + fact: 'George Washington was a successful liquor distributor, making rye whiskey, apple brandy, and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery.', + }, + { + number: 1141, + fact: 'Thomas Jefferson and John Adams chipped off a piece of Shakespeare\'s chair as a souvenir when they visited his home in 1786.', + }, + { + number: 1142, + fact: 'George Washington started losing his permanent teeth in his 20s and had only one natural tooth by the time he was president.', + }, + { + number: 1143, + fact: 'George Washington had false teeth made from many different materials, including an elephant tusk and hippopotamus ivory.', + }, + { + number: 1144, + fact: 'George Washington protected his beloved horses from losing their teeth by making sure they were brushed regularly.', + }, + { + number: 1145, + fact: 'John Quincy Adams regularly skinny-dipped in the Potomac River.', + }, + { + number: 1146, + fact: 'Calvin Coolidge was so shy he was nicknamed �Silent Cal.�', + }, + { + number: 1147, + fact: 'Calvin Coolidge loved to wear a cowboy hat and ride his mechanical horse.', + }, + { + number: 1148, + fact: 'President Herbert Hoover invented �Hooverball� (a cross between volleyball and tennis using a medicine ball), which he played with his cabinet members.', + }, + { + number: 1149, + fact: 'Andrew Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, many of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel.', + }, + { + number: 1150, + fact: 'Martin Van Buren\'s nickname was "Old Kinderhook" because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y.', + }, + { + number: 1151, + fact: 'James Buchanan bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.', + }, + { + number: 1152, + fact: 'Abraham Lincoln was only defeated once in about 300 wrestling matches, making it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with honors as "Outstanding American."', + }, + { + number: 1153, + fact: 'In his youth, President Andrew Johnson apprenticed as a tailor.', + }, + { + number: 1154, + fact: 'Ulysses S. Grant smoked at least 20 cigars a day; citizens sent him at least 10,000 boxes in gratitude after winning the Battle of Shiloh.', + }, + { + number: 1155, + fact: 'Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous, he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.', + }, + { + number: 1156, + fact: 'Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electricity in the White House; however, he was so scared of getting electrocuted he�d never touch the light switches himself.', + }, + { + number: 1157, + fact: 'William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good-luck charm.', + }, + { + number: 1158, + fact: 'Herbert Hoover\'s son had two pet alligators that were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.', + }, + { + number: 1159, + fact: 'Jimmy Carter filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973, calling it �the darndest thing I�ve ever seen.�', + }, + { + number: 1161, + fact: 'Bill Clinton\'s face is so symmetrical that he ranked in facial symmetry alongside male models.', + }, + { + number: 1162, + fact: 'In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.', + }, + { + number: 1163, + fact: 'Gerald Ford was the only president and vice president never to be elected to either office.', + }, + { + number: 1164, + fact: 'Victoria Woodhull, in 1872, was the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency.', + }, + { + number: 1165, + fact: 'James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.', + }, + { + number: 1166, + fact: 'There are only three requirements to become U.S. president: must be 35, a natural-born U.S. citizen, and have resided in the U.S. for at least 14 years.', + }, + { + number: 1167, + fact: 'To cut groundskeeping costs during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson brought a flock of sheep to trim the White House grounds.', + }, + { + number: 1168, + fact: 'Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone, and his phone number was extremely easy to remember � simply �1.�', + }, + { + number: 1169, + fact: 'Martin Van Buren was the first president born a U.S. citizen; all presidents before him were British.', + }, + { + number: 1170, + fact: 'Andrew Jackson\'s pet parrot Poll was removed from his funeral for cursing.', + }, + { + number: 1172, + fact: 'There has never been a U.S. president whose name started with the common letter S.', + }, + { + number: 1173, + fact: 'Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender.', + }, + { + number: 1174, + fact: 'Barack Obama is called the 44th president, but is actually the 43rd because Grover Cleveland is counted twice, as he was elected for two terms.', + }, + { + number: 1175, + fact: 'Four times in U.S history has a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election.', + }, + { + number: 1176, + fact: 'President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese and would use it in the White House to speak privately to each other.', + }, + { + number: 1177, + fact: 'November was chosen to be election month because it fell between harvest and brutal winter weather.', + }, + { + number: 1178, + fact: 'Six of the last 12 U.S. presidents have been left-handed, far greater than the national average of lefties (10%).', + }, + { + number: 1179, + fact: 'William Henry Harrison owned a pet goat while in office.', + }, + { + number: 1180, + fact: 'John Adams had a horse named Cleopatra.', + }, + { + number: 1181, + fact: 'James Madison had a pet parrot who outlived him and his wife.', + }, + { + number: 1182, + fact: 'John Quincy Adams\' wife raised silkworms.', + }, + { + number: 1183, + fact: 'Martin Van Buren was given two tiger cubs while he was president.', + }, + { + number: 1184, + fact: 'William Harrison had a billy goat at the White House.', + }, + { + number: 1185, + fact: 'Franklin Pierce was gifted two small "sleeve dogs" � he kept one and gave the other to Jefferson Davis.', + }, + { + number: 1186, + fact: 'Abraham Lincoln\'s son had a pet turkey, which he gave a pardon so it wasn\'t killed and eaten.', + }, + { + number: 1187, + fact: 'James Garfield had a dog appropriately named Veto.', + }, + { + number: 1188, + fact: 'William Taft liked milk so much that he had cows graze on the White House lawn, Pauline being the last in history to graze there.', + }, + { + number: 1189, + fact: 'Calvin Coolidge had a bulldog named Boston Beans, a terrier named Peter Pan, and a pet raccoon.', + }, + { + number: 1190, + fact: 'John Kennedy had a pony named Macaroni.', + }, + { + number: 1191, + fact: 'Lyndon Johnson had two beagles, named Him and Her, for which he was criticized for picking up by their ears.', + }, + { + number: 1192, + fact: 'Jimmy Carter had a dog named Grits, a gift given to his daughter Amy.', + }, + { + number: 1193, + fact: 'Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, which was the first presidential pet to have its own website.', + }, + { + number: 1194, + fact: 'Woodrow Wilson passed the Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school; he also has a PhD.', + }, + { + number: 1195, + fact: 'President Zachary Taylor\'s nickname was "Old Rough and Ready" because of his famed war career.', + }, + { + number: 1196, + fact: 'Andrew Jackson was once given a 1,400-pound cheese wheel as a gift, which he served at his outgoing President\'s Reception.', + }, + { + number: 1197, + fact: 'Blueberry jelly beans were created for Ronald Reagan�s presidential inauguration in 1981.', + }, + { + number: 1198, + fact: 'Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Texas-born president.', + }, + { + number: 1199, + fact: 'Lyndon Johnson\'s family all had the initials LBJ.', + }, + { + number: 1200, + fact: 'Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he�d never get sick.', + }, + { + number: 1201, + fact: 'Gerald Ford worked as a fashion model during college and actually appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan.', + }, + { + number: 1202, + fact: 'Dwight Eisenhower was the only president to serve in both World War I and World War II.', + }, + { + number: 1203, + fact: 'Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.', + }, + { + number: 1204, + fact: 'Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating breakfast in bed, believing it was good for his health.', + }, + { + number: 1205, + fact: 'A portion of Grover Cleveland\'s jaw was artificial, composed of vulcanized rubber.', + }, + { + number: 1206, + fact: 'Russia and the United States are less than three miles apart.', + }, + { + number: 1207, + fact: 'John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July in 1826.', + }, + { + number: 1208, + fact: 'Abraham Lincoln\'s dog Fido was the first "First Dog" to be photographed.', + }, + { + number: 1209, + fact: 'President Calvin Coolidge owned two lion cubs: Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.', + }, + { + number: 1210, + fact: 'President Rutherford B. Hayes\' cat Siam was the first Siamese cat in the U.S.', + }, + { + number: 1211, + fact: 'President John Quincy Adams\' pet alligator lived in a White House bathroom.', + }, + { + number: 1212, + fact: 'First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote, "If you love me...you must love my dog."', + }, + { + number: 1213, + fact: 'John Adams\' pets Satan and Juno were the first dogs to live in the White House.', + }, + { + number: 1214, + fact: 'Calvin Coolidge walked pet raccoon Rebecca on a leash around the White House.', + }, + { + number: 1215, + fact: 'More presidents have had pet birds than cats.', + }, + { + number: 1216, + fact: 'Thomas Jefferson\'s pet mockingbird was trained to eat out of his mouth.', + }, + { + number: 1217, + fact: 'Spotty Bush, an English Springer Spaniel, has been the only presidential pet to live at the White House during two different administrations.', + }, + { + number: 1218, + fact: 'Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride on a railroad train.', + }, + { + number: 1219, + fact: 'Pat Nixon was the first First Lady to wear pants in public.', + }, + { + number: 1220, + fact: 'First Lady Martha Washington was the first American woman to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp.', + }, + { + number: 1221, + fact: 'When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.', + }, + { + number: 1222, + fact: 'Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.', + }, + { + number: 1223, + fact: 'Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state, bordered by 8 states.', + }, + { + number: 1224, + fact: 'The cotton candy machine was invented in 1897, by a dentist.', + }, + { + number: 1225, + fact: 'You can�t hum while plugging your nose.', + }, + { + number: 1226, + fact: 'Elephants are afraid of bees.', + }, + { + number: 1227, + fact: 'They used to offer goat carriage rides in Central Park.', + }, + { + number: 1228, + fact: 'Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.', + }, + { + number: 1229, + fact: 'Monday is the only day of the week with an anagram: dynamo.', + }, + { + number: 1230, + fact: 'The only Michelangelo painting in the Western Hemisphere is on display in Fort Worth, TX.', + }, + { + number: 1231, + fact: 'Humans are 1-2 centimeters taller in the morning than at night.', + }, + { + number: 1232, + fact: 'Baby giraffes fall up to 6 feet to the ground when they are born.', + }, + { + number: 1233, + fact: 'It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.', + }, + { + number: 1234, + fact: 'The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.', + }, + { + number: 1235, + fact: 'A bald eagle nest can weigh up to two tons.', + }, + { + number: 1236, + fact: 'Worrying squirrels is not tolerated in Missouri.', + }, + { + number: 1237, + fact: 'Wombat droppings are cube-shaped.', + }, + { + number: 1238, + fact: 'Adult humans are the only mammal that can\'t breathe and swallow at the same time.', + }, + { + number: 1239, + fact: 'Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg.', + }, + { + number: 1240, + fact: 'There are more nerve connections or "synapses" in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy.', + }, + { + number: 1241, + fact: 'There are more English words beginning with the letter "S" than any other letter.', + }, + { + number: 1242, + fact: 'There are more fake than real flamingos.', + }, + { + number: 1243, + fact: 'The word �bride� comes from an old Proto-Germanic word meaning �to cook.�', + }, + { + number: 1244, + fact: 'The word utopia � an ideal place � ironically comes from a Greek word meaning �no place.�', + }, + { + number: 1245, + fact: 'Los Angeles was originally founded as El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles.', + }, + { + number: 1246, + fact: 'The woolly mammoth still roamed the earth while the pyramids were being built.', + }, + { + number: 1247, + fact: 'Nine-banded armadillos almost always give birth to four identical quadruplets.', + }, + { + number: 1248, + fact: 'Jellyfish don�t have brains.', + }, + { + number: 1249, + fact: 'Jellyfish can clone themselves.', + }, + { + number: 1250, + fact: 'The koala is the longest-sleeping animal, sleeping an average of 22 hours per day.', + }, + { + number: 1251, + fact: 'Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.', + }, + { + number: 1252, + fact: 'The city of Chicago was raised by over a foot during the 1850s and �60s without disrupting daily life.', + }, + { + number: 1253, + fact: 'Red kangaroos can hop up to 44 mph.', + }, + { + number: 1254, + fact: 'Arkansas has the only active diamond mine in the United States.', + }, + { + number: 1255, + fact: 'Robert Heft, who designed the current U.S. flag in a high school project, received a B- because it "lacked originality."', + }, + { + number: 1256, + fact: 'The first 18-hole golf course in America was built on a sheep farm in 1892.', + }, + { + number: 1257, + fact: 'Most newborns will lose all the hair they are born with in the first six months of life.', + }, + { + number: 1258, + fact: 'Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.', + }, + { + number: 1259, + fact: 'Coconut water was used as an IV drip in WWII when saline solution was in short supply.', + }, + { + number: 1260, + fact: 'Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.', + }, + { + number: 1261, + fact: 'Peanuts are not actually nuts but legumes.', + }, + { + number: 1262, + fact: 'The Oscar statuette is brittanium plated with 24K gold.', + }, + { + number: 1263, + fact: 'The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.', + }, + { + number: 1264, + fact: 'There is a star that is a diamond of ten billion trillion trillion carats.', + }, + { + number: 1265, + fact: 'One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring 50 miles.', + }, + { + number: 1266, + fact: 'A $100,000 bill exists, but was only used by Federal Reserve Banks.', + }, + { + number: 1267, + fact: '10 million bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.', + }, + { + number: 1268, + fact: 'One quarter of all the body�s bones are in the feet.', + }, + { + number: 1269, + fact: 'Lake Havasu City, AZ, has been recorded as the hottest city in the U.S. with average summer temperatures of 94.6.', + }, + { + number: 1270, + fact: 'Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.', + }, + { + number: 1271, + fact: 'One of the first sunscreens was sold in the 1910s under the name Zeozon.', + }, + { + number: 1272, + fact: 'In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.', + }, + { + number: 1273, + fact: 'The largest bill ever issued by the U.S. was a $100,000 bill in 1934.', + }, + { + number: 1274, + fact: 'Kickball is referred to as �soccer-baseball� in some parts of Canada.', + }, + { + number: 1275, + fact: 'Less than 1% of Sweden�s household waste ends up in a dump.', + }, + { + number: 1276, + fact: 'Duck Duck Goose is called Duck Duck Grey Duck in Minnesota.', + }, + { + number: 1277, + fact: 'There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.', + }, + { + number: 1278, + fact: 'Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.', + }, + { + number: 1279, + fact: 'A city in Greece struggles to build subway systems because they keep digging up ancient ruins.', + }, + { + number: 1280, + fact: 'Elvis was a natural blonde.', + }, + { + number: 1281, + fact: 'On Venus, it snows metal.', + }, + { + number: 1282, + fact: 'Eating 600 bananas is the equivalent of one chest X-ray in terms of radiation.', + }, + { + number: 1283, + fact: 'The potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space.', + }, + { + number: 1284, + fact: 'The average dog can understand over 150 words.', + }, + { + number: 1285, + fact: 'At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.', + }, + { + number: 1286, + fact: 'Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.', + }, + { + number: 1287, + fact: 'Blueberries are also called �star berries.�', + }, + { + number: 1288, + fact: 'There are more varieties of blueberries than states in the U.S.', + }, + { + number: 1289, + fact: 'Typically, blueberries become ripe after 2-5 weeks on a bush.', + }, + { + number: 1290, + fact: 'Love blueberries. Celebrate them all year round, but especially in July, National Blueberry Month.', + }, + { + number: 1291, + fact: 'While blueberries grow in clusters on their bush, the individual blueberries ripen at different times.', + }, + { + number: 1292, + fact: 'The first commercial batch of blueberries came from Whitesbog, New Jersey, in 1916.', + }, + { + number: 1293, + fact: 'The perfect blueberry should be �dusty� in color.', + }, + { + number: 1294, + fact: 'Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.', + }, + { + number: 1295, + fact: '75% of the U.S.�s tart cherries come from Michigan.', + }, + { + number: 1296, + fact: 'Traverse, MI, considers itself the Cherry Capital of the World.', + }, + { + number: 1297, + fact: 'Once cherries have been picked, they don�t ripen.', + }, + { + number: 1298, + fact: 'Make sure to eat a chocolate-covered cherry on January 3; it�s National Chocolate-Covered Cherry Day.', + }, + { + number: 1299, + fact: 'On average, how many cherries are in a pound? 44.', + }, + { + number: 1300, + fact: 'The word �cherry� comes from the Turkish town of Cerasus.', + }, + { + number: 1301, + fact: 'A cherry pie is made of about 250 cherries.', + }, + { + number: 1302, + fact: 'Eau Claire, Michigan, is known as �The Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.�', + }, + { + number: 1303, + fact: 'The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.', + }, + { + number: 1304, + fact: 'North Korea and Finland are technically separated by only one country.', + }, + { + number: 1305, + fact: 'Australia�s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.', + }, + { + number: 1306, + fact: 'Emergency phone number in Europe is 112.', + }, + { + number: 1307, + fact: 'Canada\'s postal code for Santa Claus at the North Pole is H0H 0H0.', + }, + { + number: 1308, + fact: 'Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.', + }, + { + number: 1309, + fact: 'In New Zealand, it is illegal to name your twin babies "Fish" and "Chips."', + }, + { + number: 1310, + fact: 'Chocolate bars and blue denim both originated in Guatemala.', + }, + { + number: 1311, + fact: 'In New Zealand, parents have to run baby names by the government for approval.', + }, + { + number: 1312, + fact: 'When a child loses their tooth in Greece, they throw it on the roof as a good luck wish that their adult teeth will be strong.', + }, + { + number: 1313, + fact: 'Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.', + }, + { + number: 1314, + fact: 'No one in Greece can choose not to vote; voting is required by law for every citizen who is 18 or older.', + }, + { + number: 1315, + fact: 'Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.', + }, + { + number: 1316, + fact: 'China is large enough to cover about five separate time zones, but only has one national time zone since the Chinese Civil War in 1949.', + }, + { + number: 1317, + fact: 'There is a language in Botswana that consists of mainly five types of clicks.', + }, + { + number: 1318, + fact: 'An African elephant can turn the pages of a book with its trunk.', + }, + { + number: 1319, + fact: 'Ancient Egyptians slept on head rests made of wood, ivory, or stone.', + }, + { + number: 1320, + fact: 'A traffic jam once lasted for 11 days in Beijing, China.', + }, + { + number: 1321, + fact: 'Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.', + }, + { + number: 1322, + fact: 'The blue in the Sistine Chapel is made of ground lapis lazuli gems and oils.', + }, + { + number: 1323, + fact: '"The Bridge of Eggs" built in Lima, Peru, was made of mortar that was mixed with egg whites.', + }, + { + number: 1324, + fact: 'In South Korea, you are one year old at birth.', + }, + { + number: 1325, + fact: 'The Great Wall of China is 13,170.7 miles long, over five times the distance from LA to NYC.', + }, + { + number: 1326, + fact: 'The horizontal line between two numbers in a fraction is called a vinculum.', + }, + { + number: 1327, + fact: 'The metal ring on the end of a pencil is called a ferrule.', + }, + { + number: 1328, + fact: 'You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.', + }, + { + number: 1329, + fact: 'There is an uninhabited island in the Bahamas known as Pig Beach, which is populated entirely by swimming pigs.', + }, + { + number: 1330, + fact: 'Lake Hillier, in Western Australia, is colored a bright pink.', + }, + { + number: 1331, + fact: 'Spiked dog collars were invented by the Ancient Greeks, who used them on their sheepdogs to protect their necks from wolves.', + }, + { + number: 1332, + fact: '"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence.', + }, + { + number: 1333, + fact: 'On Jupiter and Saturn, it rains diamonds.', + }, + { + number: 1334, + fact: 'Nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.', + }, + { + number: 1336, + fact: 'Located on the Detroit River, the J.W. Wescott II is the only floating post office in the U.S. and has its own ZIP Code: 48222.', + }, + { + number: 1337, + fact: 'Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.', + }, + { + number: 1338, + fact: 'Tomatoes have more genes than humans.', + }, + { + number: 1339, + fact: 'In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.', + }, + { + number: 1340, + fact: 'Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.', + }, + { + number: 1341, + fact: 'A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.', + }, + { + number: 1342, + fact: 'You can tell a turtle�s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.', + }, + { + number: 1343, + fact: 'French poodles actually originated in Germany.', + }, + { + number: 1344, + fact: 'Marine mammals swim by moving their tails up and down, while fish swim by moving their tails left and right.', + }, + { + number: 1345, + fact: '�Knocker uppers� were professionals paid to shoot peas at windows. They were replaced by alarm clocks.', + }, + { + number: 1346, + fact: 'An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T. rexes.', + }, + { + number: 1347, + fact: 'Clicking your computer mouse 1,400 times burns one calorie.', + }, + { + number: 1348, + fact: '"Guy" was once an insult for anyone dressed in poor clothes, originating from the burning of effigies of the infamous British rebel, Guy Fawkes.', + }, + { + number: 1349, + fact: 'The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.', + }, + { + number: 1350, + fact: 'The tea bag was created by accident in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.', + }, + { + number: 1351, + fact: 'The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.', + }, + { + number: 1352, + fact: 'A group of frogs is called an army.', + }, + { + number: 1353, + fact: 'Corn always has an even number of rows on each ear.', + }, + { + number: 1354, + fact: 'You are always looking at your nose; your brain just chooses to ignore it.', + }, + { + number: 1355, + fact: 'There is a single mega-colony of ants that spans three continents, covering much of Europe, the west coast of the U.S., and the west coast of Japan.', + }, + { + number: 1356, + fact: 'The world\'s largest mountain range is under the sea.', + }, + { + number: 1357, + fact: 'The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896 is the shortest war on record, lasting an exhausting 38 minutes.', + }, + { + number: 1358, + fact: 'Below the Kalahari Desert lies the world\'s largest underground lake.', + }, + { + number: 1359, + fact: 'Oregon and Mexico once shared a border.', + }, + { + number: 1360, + fact: 'Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Scandinavian king.', + }, + { + number: 1361, + fact: 'A nun held one of the first PhDs in computer science.', + }, + { + number: 1362, + fact: 'For 67 years, Nintendo only produced playing cards.', + }, + { + number: 1363, + fact: 'The ancient Chinese carried Pekingese puppies in the sleeves of their robes.', + }, + { + number: 1364, + fact: 'A tarantula can survive for more than two years without food.', + }, + { + number: 1365, + fact: 'Ethiopia follows a calendar that is seven years behind the rest of the world.', + }, + { + number: 1366, + fact: 'In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.', + }, + { + number: 1367, + fact: 'Every tweet Americans send is archived by the Library of Congress.', + }, + { + number: 1368, + fact: 'A neutron star is as dense as stuffing 50 million elephants into a thimble.', + }, + { + number: 1369, + fact: 'More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.', + }, + { + number: 1370, + fact: 'An earthquake in 1812 caused the Mississippi River to flow backward.', + }, + { + number: 1371, + fact: 'In 2014, the Department of Veterans Affairs was still paying a Civil War pension.', + }, + { + number: 1372, + fact: 'In Webster\'s Dictionary, the longest words without repeating letters are �uncopyrightable� and �dermatoglyphics.�', + }, + { + number: 1373, + fact: '�Unprosperousness� is the longest word in which no letter occurs only once.', + }, + { + number: 1374, + fact: '�Typewriter� and �perpetuity� are the longest words that can be typed on a single line of a QWERTY keyboard.', + }, + { + number: 1375, + fact: 'There have been three Olympic games held in countries that no longer exist.', + }, + { + number: 1376, + fact: 'Golf is the only sport to be played on the moon.', + }, + { + number: 1377, + fact: 'The word "checkmate" comes from the Persian phrase meaning "the king is dead."', + }, + { + number: 1378, + fact: 'The brain is the only organ in the human body without pain receptors.', + }, + { + number: 1379, + fact: 'There is a volcano on Mars the size of Arizona.', + }, + { + number: 1380, + fact: 'The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometers away.', + }, + { + number: 1381, + fact: 'Dogs� sense of hearing is more than ten times more acute than a human�s.', + }, + { + number: 1382, + fact: 'A housefly hums in the key of F.', + }, + { + number: 1383, + fact: 'Venus is the only planet in the solar system where the sun rises in the west.', + }, + { + number: 1384, + fact: 'The state animal of Tennessee is a raccoon.', + }, + { + number: 1385, + fact: 'If you were to stretch out a Slinky until it�s flat, it would measure 87 feet long.', + }, + { + number: 1386, + fact: 'It\'s illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia because of its intelligence.', + }, + { + number: 1387, + fact: 'There are more trees on Earth than stars in the galaxy.', + }, + { + number: 1388, + fact: 'Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.', + }, + { + number: 1389, + fact: 'Fires spread faster uphill than downhill.', + }, + { + number: 1390, + fact: 'The Florida Everglades is the only place in the world where both alligators and crocodiles live together.', + }, + { + number: 1391, + fact: 'Newborns can\'t cry actual tears. This normally occurs between 3 weeks and 3 months of life.', + }, + { + number: 1392, + fact: 'If you could drive your car upward, you would be in space in less than an hour.', + }, + { + number: 1393, + fact: 'The sun is actually white, but the Earth�s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.', + }, + { + number: 1394, + fact: 'The Earth rotates at a speed of 1,040 MPH.', + }, + { + number: 1395, + fact: 'Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.', + }, + { + number: 1396, + fact: 'The word "aegilops" is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.', + }, + { + number: 1397, + fact: 'Gorillas burp when they are happy.', + }, + { + number: 1398, + fact: 'Because of metal prices, since 2006 the U.S. Mint has had to spend more to make a penny than they are worth.', + }, + { + number: 1399, + fact: '"Never odd or even" spelled backward is still "Never odd or even."', + }, + { + number: 1400, + fact: 'In Alabama, it\'s illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time.', + }, + { + number: 1401, + fact: 'Alaska is the most northern, western, and eastern U.S. state.', + }, + { + number: 1402, + fact: 'In France, it\'s illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.', + }, + { + number: 1403, + fact: 'A group of raccoons is called a gaze.', + }, + { + number: 1404, + fact: 'Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.', + }, + { + number: 1405, + fact: 'Cherophobia is the fear of happiness.', + }, + { + number: 1406, + fact: 'The vertical distance between the Earth\'s highest and lowest points is about 12 miles.', + }, + { + number: 1407, + fact: 'A flock of crows is known as a murder.', + }, + { + number: 1408, + fact: 'Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" to win a bet with his publisher who thought he could not complete a book with only 50 words.', + }, + { + number: 1409, + fact: 'Over 80% of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.', + }, + { + number: 1410, + fact: 'There are more people on Facebook today than there were on the Earth 200 years ago.', + }, + { + number: 1415, + fact: 'Mangoes have noses.', + }, + { + number: 1416, + fact: 'Mangoes can get sunburned.', + }, + { + number: 1417, + fact: 'Before 1859, baseball umpires sat behind home plate in rocking chairs.', + }, + { + number: 1418, + fact: 'The shortest professional baseball player was 3 feet, 7 inches tall.', + }, + { + number: 1419, + fact: 'The average life span of an MLB baseball is five to seven pitches.', + }, + { + number: 1420, + fact: 'The most valuable baseball card ever is worth about $2.8 million.', + }, + { + number: 1421, + fact: 'The paisley pattern is based on the mango.', + }, + { + number: 1422, + fact: 'In India, mango leaves are used to celebrate the birth of a boy.', + }, + { + number: 1423, + fact: 'A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.', + }, + { + number: 1424, + fact: 'When sprinting, professional cyclists produce enough power to power a home.', + }, + { + number: 1425, + fact: 'Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.', + }, + { + number: 1426, + fact: 'During a typical MLB season, approximately 160,000 baseballs are used.', + }, + { + number: 1427, + fact: 'The Bible is the world\'s most shoplifted book.', + }, + { + number: 1428, + fact: 'The British pound is the world\'s oldest currency still in use.', + }, + { + number: 1429, + fact: 'The Great Lakes have more than 30,000 islands.', + }, + { + number: 1430, + fact: 'Mountain lions can whistle.', + }, + { + number: 1431, + fact: 'While rabbits have near-perfect 360-degree panoramic vision, their most critical blind spot is directly in front of their nose.', + }, + { + number: 1432, + fact: 'When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.', + }, + { + number: 1433, + fact: 'Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.', + }, + { + number: 1434, + fact: 'There have been 85 recorded instances of a pitcher striking out four batters in one inning.', + }, + { + number: 1435, + fact: '3.7 million bags of ballpark peanuts are eaten every year at ballparks.', + }, + { + number: 1436, + fact: 'Shakespeare created the name Jessica for his play "The Merchant of Venice."', + }, + { + number: 1437, + fact: 'Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.', + }, + { + number: 1438, + fact: 'The mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II has a passport.', + }, + { + number: 1439, + fact: 'It is physically impossible for a pig to look at the sky.', + }, + { + number: 1440, + fact: 'There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.', + }, + { + number: 1441, + fact: 'A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.', + }, + { + number: 1442, + fact: 'A shrimp\'s heart is in its head.', + }, + { + number: 1443, + fact: 'A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.', + }, + { + number: 1444, + fact: 'Light could travel around the earth nearly 7.5 times in one second.', + }, + { + number: 1445, + fact: 'A single lightning bolt contains enough energy to cook 100,000 pieces of toast.', + }, + { + number: 1446, + fact: 'About one in every 2,000 babies is born with teeth.', + }, + { + number: 1447, + fact: 'Water can boil and freeze at the same time.', + }, + { + number: 1448, + fact: 'Less than 5% of the population needs just 4-5 hours of sleep.', + }, + { + number: 1449, + fact: 'Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.', + }, + { + number: 1450, + fact: 'Astronauts can\'t burp in space.', + }, + { + number: 1451, + fact: 'An Immaculate Inning is when a pitcher strikes out three batters with only nine pitches.', + }, + { + number: 1452, + fact: 'Earth is the only planet not named after a Greek or Roman god.', + }, + { + number: 1453, + fact: 'Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.', + }, + { + number: 1454, + fact: 'In the 1960s, the U.S. government tried to turn a cat into a spy.', + }, + { + number: 1455, + fact: 'Movie trailers used to come on at the end of movies, but no one stuck around to watch them.', + }, + { + number: 1456, + fact: 'MLB umpires often wear black underwear, in case they split their pants.', + }, + { + number: 1457, + fact: 'It is possible to record four outs in one-half inning of baseball.', + }, + { + number: 1458, + fact: 'There are nine different ways to reach first base.', + }, + { + number: 1459, + fact: 'During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be the size and weight of a baseball, since \'any young American man should be able to properly throw it.\'', + }, + { + number: 1460, + fact: 'Philadelphia zookeeper Jim Murray sent baseball scores to telegraph offices by carrier pigeon every half inning in 1883.', + }, + { + number: 1461, + fact: 'From 1845 through 1867, home base was circular, made of iron, painted or enameled white, and 12 inches in diameter.', + }, + { + number: 1462, + fact: 'President Bill Clinton\'s first presidential pitch (on April 4, 1993) was the first ever from the pitcher\'s mound to the catcher\'s mitt.', + }, + { + number: 1463, + fact: 'Thunder is actually the sound caused by lightning.', + }, + { + number: 1464, + fact: 'Australia is wider than the moon.', + }, + { + number: 1465, + fact: '85% of people only breathe out of one nostril at a time.', + }, + { + number: 1466, + fact: 'An albatross can sleep while it flies.', + }, + { + number: 1467, + fact: 'In a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that two people have the same birthday.', + }, + { + number: 1468, + fact: 'Bubble wrap was originally invented as a wallpaper in 1957.', + }, + { + number: 1469, + fact: 'There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.', + }, + { + number: 1470, + fact: 'Of the 193 members of the United Nations, Britain has invaded 171 of them.', + }, + { + number: 1471, + fact: 'The Apollo 11 guidance computer was no more powerful than today\'s pocket calculator.', + }, + { + number: 1472, + fact: '�Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia� is the technical name for brain freeze.', + }, + { + number: 1473, + fact: 'Earth is actually located inside the sun\'s atmosphere.', + }, + { + number: 1474, + fact: 'The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.', + }, + { + number: 1475, + fact: 'If you drilled a hole through the earth, it would take 42 minutes to fall through it.', + }, + { + number: 1476, + fact: 'The planet 55 Cancri e is made of diamonds and would be worth $26.9 nonillion.', + }, + { + number: 1477, + fact: 'France used the guillotine as recently as 1977.', + }, + { + number: 1478, + fact: 'Sloths move so slow that algae can grow on them.', + }, + { + number: 1479, + fact: 'Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.', + }, + { + number: 1480, + fact: 'Michelangelo hated painting and wrote a poem about it.', + }, + { + number: 1481, + fact: 'The dwarf lantern shark grows to be no bigger than a human hand.', + }, + { + number: 1482, + fact: '"Tools of ignorance" is a nickname for the equipment worn by catchers.', + }, + { + number: 1483, + fact: 'More than 100 baseballs are used during a typical MLB game.', + }, + { + number: 1484, + fact: 'Pitchers were prohibited from delivering the ball overhand for much of the 19th century.', + }, + { + number: 1485, + fact: 'Walks were scored as hits during the 1887 season.', + }, + { + number: 1486, + fact: 'A regulation baseball has 108 stitches.', + }, + { + number: 1487, + fact: 'A "can of corn" is a routine fly ball hit to an outfielder.', + }, + { + number: 1488, + fact: 'Baseball is played in more than 100 countries.', + }, + { + number: 1489, + fact: '�Take Me Out to the Ballgame� was written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, both of whom had never been to a baseball game.', + }, + { + number: 1490, + fact: 'A baseball pitcher�s curveball can break up to 17 inches.', + }, + { + number: 1491, + fact: 'MLB baseballs are rubbed in Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud, a unique mud found only near Palmyra, New Jersey.', + }, + { + number: 1492, + fact: 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 30,000 baseball cards as part of the Jefferson R. Burdick collection.', + }, + { + number: 1493, + fact: 'William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the U.S., began the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910.', + }, + { + number: 1494, + fact: 'MLB National League (1876) is the oldest professional sports league that is still in existence.', + }, + { + number: 1495, + fact: 'The first modern-day World Series game was played in 1903.', + }, + { + number: 1496, + fact: 'The Mendoza Line is a .200 batting average.', + }, + { + number: 1497, + fact: 'There are 13 different pitches a pitcher can throw in baseball.', + }, + { + number: 1498, + fact: 'The first MLB All-Star Game was played in 1933.', + }, + { + number: 1499, + fact: 'A player was once ejected from an MLB game for sleeping during the game.', + }, + { + number: 1500, + fact: 'Baseball hits that bounced over the fence were considered home runs until the 1930s.', + }, + { + number: 1501, + fact: 'The most home runs ever recorded in an MLB season is 73.', + }, + { + number: 1502, + fact: 'The highest batting average ever recorded in an MLB season is .440.', + }, + { + number: 1503, + fact: 'MLB has not had a lefty play catcher since 1989.', + }, + { + number: 1504, + fact: 'The longest MLB game went 26 innings.', + }, ]; exports.default = snappleFacts; diff --git a/src/tests/index.test.js b/src/tests/index.test.js index 90e4a91..6a68cca 100644 --- a/src/tests/index.test.js +++ b/src/tests/index.test.js @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -'use strict'; +"use strict"; describe('Test', () => { - it('should pass', () => { - expect(true).toBe(true); - }); + it('should pass', () => { + expect(true).toBe(true); + }); });