1. The blue whale's heart weighs 1,320 lbs. At birth, the blue whale can weigh up to 6,000 lbs…. as an adult they can weigh in the neighborhood of 200 tons (400,000 lbs)!

2. The smallest mammal on earth=the bumblebee bat…weighs less than a penny.

3. Only 3% of Americans prefer their hotdogs plain.

4. 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee every hour, every day of the year.

5. The ‘slurpee' and ‘big gulp' originated in 1967 and 1980, respectively.

6. How many Rhode Islands would you need to make one Texas?....268.

7. A cow spends 18 hours of the day chewing.

8. Odds of a golfer making a hole in one…….33,676 to 1.

9. A hippo exudes red sweat when hot, excited, or in pain.

10. A healthy pig can run a mile in 7.5 minutes.

11. Who invented the wooden coat hanger?.....Thomas Jefferson.

12. Karaoke is Japanese for ‘empty orchestra.'

13. Most common month to get engaged=December.

14. Most common mammal in the U.S. = mouse.

15. Ants do not sleep at all.

16. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

17. There is a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.

18. A chameleon's tongue is 2x the length of its body.

19. If you are older than 100 years old, there is an 80% chance you are a woman.

20. Tallest U.S. President: Abe Lincoln, 6'4”….Shortest: James Madison, 5'4”

21. A Koala sleeps up to 22 hours a day.

22. Nothing rhymes with month, purple, silver, or orange.

23. Snowiest city in the U.S. = Blue Canyon, California.

24. Oldest television show still on the air: ‘Meet the Press' which first aired November 6, 1947.

25. Dolphins nap with one eye open.

26. Oliver Pollock invented the dollar sign $ in 1778.

27. Average major league baseball rotates 15 times before it is hit by the batter.

28. Take your height, divide by 8…that is how “tall” your head is.

29. Only male fireflies can fly.

30. Earth is closest to the sun on January 3rd.

31. Heaviest U.S. President=William H. Taft (332 lbs)…Lightest=James Madison (100 lbs).

32. Fastest fish in the world=sailfish (68mph).

33. Which county borders 16 other countries?....China.

34. The average taste bud lasts only 10 days before it dies and is replaced.

35. The number of times an American will move in a lifetime…..11.

36. The number of bathing suits sold in America every second….4.

37. One in 500 humans have one blue eye and one brown eye.

38. No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.

39. Thomas Edison was responsible for 1,093 U.S. patents…one of them being the talking doll (1888).

40. Only state with one syllable: Maine.

41. A full moon is 9x brighter than a half moon.

42. Americans eat 90 acres of pizza in one day.

43. Average # of muscles in a caterpillar=2,000…in average human=700.

44. Coffee beans are not beans…..they are fruit pits.

45. In an average day, 37 million pennies, 4.6 million nickels, 6.6 million dimes, and 5.8 million quarters are stamped out by U.S. Treasury.

46. The ruby-throated hummingbird's heart beats 615 times per minute.

47. Stretched end to end, the blood vessels in your body would go around the equator 2.5 times. Note: the equator is 24,901.5 miles long…, humans have ~60,000 miles of blood vessels.

48. Vodka is Russian for ‘little water'.

49. When migrating birds fly in a “V” it increases their range by 70%.

50. 25% of the 206 bones in your body are in your feet.

51. ‘Griffonage' is defined as illegible handwriting.

52. There are 20 million bacteria on just one square inch of skin.

53. Empire State Building = 10 million bricks (fyi: 102 story building that was constructed from 1929-1931).

54. One pound of peanut butter requires up to 720 peanuts to make it.

55. Canada's official animal: beaver.

56. Hummingbirds can fly 500 miles without stopping.

57. America 's first billionaire: Henry Ford.

58. Every day, 46 million Americans buy books.

59. Average person: their feet hit the floor 7,000 times a day.

60. Each fingernail on the Statue of Liberty weighs 100 lbs.

61. Company with the most U.S. Patents: IBM.

62. 63% of pet owners sleep with their pets.

63. One billion seconds = 31.7 years.

64. World's highest capital city: Lhasa, Tibet. ~12,000 feet above sea level.

65. There are 68,000 miles of phone lines in the Pentagon.

66. Highest blood pressure of any animal: giraffe.

67. Adult crocodile can go 2 years without eating.

68. Average cow produces 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

69. Americans consume 16,000 tons of aspirin every year.

70. Squirrels cannot see the color red.

71. First ‘rookie of the year' award was given to Jackie Robinson in 1947.

72. Centipedes are carnivores ... millipedes are vegetarians.

73. # of grooves etched into a dime: 118; into a quarter: 119.

74. Elvis owned $60,000 worth of prescription sunglasses when he died.

75. Your left hand does 56% of the typing.

76. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.

77. It takes 21 lbs of milk to make 1 lb of butter.

78. It takes 2.5 gallons of oil to make a car tire.

79. How many licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? ... 2,893.

80. In 1776 there were 2 million people in the U.S. (note: in 2008 ~305 million).

81. One year = 31,557,600 seconds.

82. Average 4 year old will ask 437 questions every day.

83. Humans have 46 chromosomes….goldfish have 96.

84. Take your weight and divide it by 3 = how much your legs weigh.

85. The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

86. More than 50% of all the lakes in the world are in Canada.

87. The average beard contains 15,500 hairs.

88. Largest country in Africa: Sudan.

89. An elephant grows 6 sets of teeth in its lifetime.

90. The Sahara Desert is almost as large as the continental U.S. .... it is larger than Australia.

91. How many breaths do you take in a year? .... 10 million.

92. The Pacific Ocean is 2x the size of the Atlantic Ocean.

93. The heel of the sock is called the ‘gore'.

94. The brain uses 40% of the oxygen that enters the blood stream.

95. Brain cells are the only human cells that don't reproduce.

96. There are 24 flowers on every Oreo.

97. Largest purchaser of American beef=McDonald's (1 billion lbs per year).

98. McDonald's feeds 43 million people a day.

99. Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

100. There are 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of human feet.

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