Facts to Know

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• For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
• The harmonica is the world's most popular instrument.
• By the time they are 65 years old, most Americans have watched more than nine years worth of television.
• The puck in ice hockey can travel at up to 118 mph (190 km/h).
• If you stretched all the nerves in the body from end to end, they would be about 47 miles long.
• Humans have more than 600 muscles in their bodies.
• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
• Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
• The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
• All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
• Almonds are a member of the peach family.
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
• The largest cabbage weighed 144 lbs.
• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula" - and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: "L.A."
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just stripped fur.
• In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (DON'T try this at home!)
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
• "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• Many hamsters blink one eye at a time.
• The inventor of the flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper.
• The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
• Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
• Whitby, Ontario has more donut stores per capita than any other place in the world.
• Starfish have no brain.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
• Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
• Bulls are color blind.
• A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
• "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
• Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
• Lip stick contains fish scales.
• The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
• The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms. Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.