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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: 35,
fact: 'Elephants only sleep two hours a day.',
},
{
number: 36,
fact: "A duck's quack doesn't echo.",
},
{
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: 41,
fact: 'Shrimp can only swim backward.',
},
{
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: 53,
fact: 'The average woman consumes six pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.',
},
{
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: 72,
fact: 'The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use.',
},
{
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: 75,
fact: 'The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year.',
},
{
number: 76,
fact: 'The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.',
},
{
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: 82,
fact: 'August has the highest percentage of births.',
},
{
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: 89,
fact: 'The average American walks 18,000 steps a day.',
},
{
number: 90,
fact: 'The average raindrop falls at seven mph.',
},
{
number: 91,
fact: 'There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.',
},
{
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: 100,
fact: 'In a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed.',
},
{
number: 101,
fact: 'About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.',
},
{
number: 102,
fact: 'A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.',
},
{
number: 103,
fact: 'Frowning burns more calories than smiling.',
},
{
number: 104,
fact: 'There are more than 30,000 diets on public record.',
},
{
number: 105,
fact: 'You will burn about 7% more calories walking on hard dirt than on pavement.',
},
{
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 watching TV.',
},
{
number: 108,
fact: 'Licking a stamp burns 10 calories.',
},
{
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: 113,
fact: 'The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43 mph.',
},
{
number: 114,
fact: 'The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old.',
},
{
number: 115,
fact: "Bamboo makes up 99 percent of a panda's diet.",
},
{
number: 116,
fact: 'The largest fish is the whale shark - it can be over 50 feet long and weigh two tons.',
},
{
number: 117,
fact: 'The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.',
},
{
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: 129,
fact: 'Dolphins can jump up to 20 feet in the air.',
},
{
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: 134,
fact: 'An ant can lift 50 times its own weight.',
},
{
number: 135,
fact: 'A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year.',
},
{
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: 140,
fact: 'Holland is the only country with a national dog.',
},
{
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: 161,
fact: 'The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo."',
},
{
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: 173,
fact: 'Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.',
},
{
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: 179,
fact: 'The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886.',
},
{
number: 180,
fact: 'The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano.',
},
{
number: 181,
fact: 'The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899.',
},
{
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: 187,
fact: 'There are over 61,000 pizzerias in the U.S.',
},
{
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: 199,
fact: 'The largest cheesecake ever made weighed 57,508 lbs.',
},
{
number: 200,
fact: 'The first country to use postcards was Austria.',
},
{
number: 201,
fact: 'The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.',
},
{
number: 202,
fact: 'The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 feet wide.',
},
{
number: 203,
fact: 'Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.',
},
{
number: 204,
fact: 'A stamp shaped like a banana was once issued in the country of Tonga.',
},
{
number: 205,
fact: 'For every human being in the world there is approximately one chicken.',
},
{
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: 209,
fact: 'The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,061 lbs.',
},
{
number: 210,
fact: '1.3 billion pounds of peanuts are produced in Georgia each year.',
},
{
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: 213,
fact: 'The largest ball of twine in the US weighs over 17,000.',
},
{
number: 214,
fact: 'Giraffes can lick their own eyes.',
},
{
number: 215,
fact: 'Tennessee banned the use of a lasso to catch fish.',
},
{
number: 216,
fact: 'TV dinners originated in the Arctic.',
},
{
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: 222,
fact: 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.',
},
{
number: 223,
fact: 'The Basenji is the only type of dog that does not bark.',
},
{
number: 224,
fact: "America's 1st roller coaster was built in 1827 to carry coal from a mine to boats below.",
},
{
number: 225,
fact: 'There are towns named Sandwich in Illinois and Massachusetts.',
},
{
number: 226,
fact: "13 percent of the world's tea comes from Kenya.",
},
{
number: 227,
fact: 'Tsiology is anything written about tea.',
},
{
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: 231,
fact: 'Detroit has the greatest number of registered bowlers in the U.S.',
},
{
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: 234,
fact: 'Great Falls, Montana, is the windiest city in the U.S.',
},
{
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: 239,
fact: 'Besides humans, elephants are the only animals that can be taught to stand on their head.',
},
{
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: 242,
fact: 'The Nickname of President Hayes\'s wife was "Lemonade Lucy."',
},
{
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: 247,
fact: 'Britain was the first country to register a patent on polyester.',
},
{
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: 252,
fact: 'There is a town in Alaska called Chicken.',
},
{
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: 258,
fact: 'Lemon wood is carved into chess pieces.',
},
{
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: 261,
fact: 'Playing in a marching band is considered moderate exercise.',
},
{
number: 262,
fact: 'The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to stay awake than caffeine.',
},
{
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: 266,
fact: "Manhattan is the only borough in New York City that doesn't have a Main Street.",
},
{
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: 274,
fact: 'All lemons are harvested by hand.',
},
{
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: 277,
fact: 'Today\'s "modern" wrestling moves have been seen in tomb drawings from ancient Egypt.',
},
{
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: 289,
fact: 'In 1908, the first lollipop-making machine started in New Haven, CT.',
},
{
number: 290,
fact: 'One out of every eight residents in the U.S. lives in California.',
},
{
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: 307,
fact: 'All dog breeds except chow-chows have black lips to prevent them from getting sunburned.',
},
{
number: 308,
fact: 'Connecticut was the first state to pass a Lemon Law in 1982.',
},
{
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: 317,
fact: 'Lemon sharks can give birth to about 36 babies at one time.',
},
{
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: 320,
fact: 'There is a town called Jackpot in Nevada.',
},
{
number: 321,
fact: "The word 'purple' does not rhyme with any other word in the English language.",
},
{
number: 322,
fact: 'In the U.S., there are about 15,000 vacuum cleaner-related accidents each year.',
},
{
number: 323,
fact: 'The Lemon-Yellow Tree Frog is only active in the darkness of night.',
},
{
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: 334,
fact: 'The beaver is the official animal of Canada.',
},
{
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: 337,
fact: 'Farmington, Maine celebrates Chester Greenwood Day to honor the inventor of earmuffs.',
},
{
number: 338,
fact: 'Of all the trees in Australia, 75% are eucalyptus.',
},
{
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: 349,
fact: "Most cats don't like lemonade.",
},
{
number: 350,
fact: 'The watersheds that supply water to New York City are roughly the size of Delaware.',
},
{
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: 359,
fact: 'A teaspoon contains 120 drops of water.',
},
{
number: 360,
fact: 'Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.',
},
{
number: 361,
fact: 'The pineapple is a very big berry.',
},
{
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: 365,
fact: 'The oil in cashews helps prevent tooth decay.',
},
{
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: 371,
fact: 'Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world.',
},
{
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: 379,
fact: 'The "lemon yellow" crayon was introduced in 1949 and retired in 1990.',
},
{
number: 380,
fact: 'It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.',
},
{
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: 385,
fact: 'Lemons are more acidic than vinegar.',
},
{
number: 386,
fact: "New York City's public school students represent about 188 different countries.",
},
{
number: 387,
fact: 'A banana is a giant herb.',
},
{
number: 388,
fact: 'The first person in the U.S. arrested for speeding was a NYC cab driver.',
},
{
number: 389,
fact: 'In the U.S., all interstate highways that run east to west are even-numbered.',
},
{
number: 390,
fact: 'Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.',
},
{
number: 391,
fact: 'A sea lemon is a mollusk that feeds on sponges.',
},
{
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: 397,
fact: 'Bamboo can grow over three feet per day.',
},
{
number: 398,
fact: 'Hippos can open their mouths 180 degrees.',
},
{
number: 399,
fact: 'Manhattan was the first capital of the United States.',
},
{
number: 400,
fact: 'About 80 women go into labor on NYC subways every year.',
},
{
number: 401,
fact: 'The coldest city in the U.S. is International Falls, Minnesota.',
},
{
number: 402,
fact: 'Christopher Columbus brought the first lemon seeds to America.',
},
{
number: 403,
fact: 'The largest hailstone ever recorded in the U.S. was 17.5 inches around.',
},
{
number: 404,
fact: "The Statue of Liberty's nose is four feet six inches long.",
},
{
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: 407,
fact: 'The largest dog litter was 23 puppies.',
},
{
number: 408,
fact: 'Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.',
},
{
number: 409,
fact: 'Approximately 16,500 people in the U.S. go by the last name Lemon.',
},
{
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: 415,
fact: "The most popular pet name in the United States is 'Max.'",
},
{
number: 416,
fact: 'Many butterflies and moths are able to taste with their feet.',
},
{
number: 417,
fact: 'All polar bears are left-handed.',
},
{
number: 418,
fact: 'The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat, which weighs less than a penny.',
},
{
number: 419,
fact: 'A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.',
},
{
number: 420,
fact: "In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.",
},
{
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: 432,
fact: "Antarctica holds 90% of the world's fresh water.",
},
{
number: 433,
fact: 'The state of Tennessee was originally called Franklin.',
},
{
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: 447,
fact: 'A gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds.',
},
{
number: 448,
fact: 'The sun evaporates about a trillion tons of water a day.',
},
{
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: 456,
fact: "About 85% of the world's population is right-handed.",
},
{
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: 464,
fact: 'Cows do not have upper front teeth.',
},
{
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: 471,
fact: "The most common name for a pet goldfish is 'Jaws.'",
},
{
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: 474,
fact: 'To temporarily revive your ballpoint pen, dip the tip into hot water for a few seconds.',
},
{
number: 475,
fact: 'Wrapping rubber bands around the ends of hangers can prevent clothes from slipping off.',
},
{
number: 476,
fact: "Replacing your car's air filter can improve gas mileage by 10 percent.",
},
{
number: 477,
fact: 'A chalkboard eraser is one of the best ways to wipe a foggy windshield.',
},
{
number: 478,
fact: 'Candles will burn longer and drip less if they are placed in the freezer a few hours before using.',
},
{
number: 479,
fact: 'Knots come out easier if you sprinkle talcum powder on them.',
},
{
number: 480,
fact: 'You can tell which day a loaf of bread was baked by the color of its plastic twist tag.',
},
{
number: 481,
fact: 'Over 50 percent of your body heat is lost through your head and neck.',
},
{
number: 482,
fact: 'Dieting by not eating will actually make your body start conserving calories as fat.',
},
{
number: 483,
fact: 'Smile more - every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.',
},
{
number: 484,
fact: 'Rinsing bacon under cold water before frying can reduce the amount it shrinks by almost 50 percent.',
},
{
number: 485,
fact: 'Refrigerating apples can help them last up to 10 times longer than those left at room temperature.',
},
{
number: 486,
fact: 'While chopping onions, hold a piece of bread between your lips to keep your eyes from watering.',
},
{
number: 487,
fact: 'Place an apple in the bag with your potatoes to keep them from budding.',
},
{
number: 488,
fact: 'Place a slice of bread in the storage container to keep cookies soft when storing.',
},
{
number: 489,
fact: 'To keep an ice cream cone from dripping, stuff a miniature marshmallow into the bottom of the cone.',
},
{
number: 490,
fact: 'To take lumps out of a bag of sugar, place it in the refrigerator for 24 hours.',
},
{
number: 491,
fact: 'To remove crayon marks from walls, use a hairdryer to heat the wax.',
},
{
number: 492,
fact: 'To make a zipper slide up and down more smoothly, rub a bar of soap over the teeth.',
},
{
number: 493,
fact: 'Wipe the leaves of your plants with the soft inside of a banana skin to bring up shine and remove dust.',
},
{
number: 494,
fact: 'To clean paint off your hands, use olive oil - it softens the paint and makes it easy to remove.',
},
{
number: 495,
fact: 'To fix a button about to fall off, dab a little clear nail polish over the threads holding it on.',
},
{
number: 496,
fact: 'To clean paint off your hands, use olive oil - it softens the paint and makes it easy to remove.',
},
{
number: 497,
fact: 'To fix a button about to fall off, dab a little clear nail polish over the threads holding it on.',
},
{
number: 498,
fact: 'To remove crayon marks from walls, use a hairdryer to heat the wax.',
},
{
number: 499,
fact: 'An average strawberry has about 200 seeds.',
},
{
number: 500,
fact: 'A watermelon is 92% water.',
},
{
number: 501,
fact: 'Honey never spoils.',
},
{
number: 502,
fact: 'Bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t.',
},
{
number: 503,
fact: 'Apples float because they are 25% air.',
},
{
number: 504,
fact: 'Pumpkins are a type of squash.',
},
{
number: 505,
fact: 'Tomatoes are fruits.',
},
{
number: 506,
fact: 'A cucumber is 96% water.',
},
{
number: 507,
fact: 'Potatoes were the first food to be grown in space.',
},
{
number: 508,
fact: 'Carrots were originally purple.',
},
{
number: 509,
fact: 'There are over 7,500 varieties of apples.',
},
{
number: 510,
fact: 'Pineapples take two years to grow.',
},
{
number: 511,
fact: 'Peanuts are not nuts; they are legumes.',
},
{
number: 512,
fact: 'Cranberries bounce if they are fresh.',
},
{
number: 513,
fact: 'A pomegranate can hold up to 1,000 seeds.',
},
{
number: 514,
fact: 'Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.',
},
{
number: 515,
fact: 'Broccoli contains more protein than steak.',
},
{
number: 516,
fact: 'One avocado has more potassium than a banana.',
},
{
number: 517,
fact: