401. Frogs have no ribs.

402. First female national news anchor: Barbara Walters (1976).

403. Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.

404. Bees taste with their back feet.

405. Philadelphia was the capital of the U.S. from 1790 to 1800.

406. The Incas measured time by how long it took a potato to cook.

407. About 65% of Americans say television is a ‘necessity.’

408. Baby giraffes can grow as much as one inch every 2 hours.

409. By law, all tombstones in Norway must be the same height.

410. Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 15 miles away.

411. Most watched movie in history: Wizard of Oz (over 1 billion people).

412. An adult male gorilla can bench press around 4,000 lbs.

413. Mammals have been on Earth for 200 million years; Homo sapiens about 150,000 years.

414. In 1950, 7% of American females dyed their hair; today about 75% do.

415. The average elevator travels the equivalent of halfway around the equator every year.

416. The first crossing of the U.S. by automobile took 52 days in 1903.

417. A lightning bolt strikes so fast, it could circle the globe eight times in a second.

418. Best selling car of all time: Toyota Corolla (>35 million since 1966).

419. The first train reached a top speed of 5 miles per hour.

420. One out of 1,000 baby sea turtles survive to adulthood.

421. Virginia extends 95 miles further west than West Virginia.

422. Virgil, the Roman poet, spent the equivalent of $92,000 on a funeral for his pet fly.

423. Pigeons have 3 sets of eyelids.

424. The first typewriter was made by gun makers E. Remington and Sons (1874).

425. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe all died on July 4th.

426. Disneyland, CA, and Disney World, FL, are both located in Orange County.

427. The average person swallows 295 times while eating a meal.

428. The whistling swan has the most feathers of any bird (~25,000).

429. Half of the body’s water is lost and replaced every 10 days.

430. First record album to go gold in the U.S. = Oklahoma! (1958).

431. Americans spend around $30 billion each year trying to lose weight.

432. 8 degrees Fahrenheit is the warmest temp ever recorded at the South Pole.

433. Average piece of paper is about 500,000 atoms thick.

434. The heart of a mouse is smaller than an M&M.

435. The world’s first skateboard park was built in Port Orange, FL (1976).

436. Jellyfish are 95% water and have no heart, blood, brain, or gills.

437. There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.

438. From fertilization to birth, a baby’s weight increases by 5 billion times.

439. A common housefly carries ~1,941,000 bacteria on its body.

440. Bolivia and Paraguay are the only South American countries with no coast.

441. World’s longest national highway: Trans-Canada Highway (6,699 miles).

442. The common housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.

443. All bullfrogs close their eyes when they jump.

444. More of your brain is used to control your thumb than your stomach.

445. Gene Kelly had a 103 degree fever when he danced to the title song Singin’ in the Rain.

446. Weigh yourself and multiply it by .0028...that is how much salt by weight you have in your body.

447. The Santa Maria (navigated by Columbus) weighed less than the Titanic’s rudder.

448. A red blood cell lives for up to 120 days; a white blood cell lasts an average of only 13 days.

449. All mammals, except for apes, monkeys, birds, and most humans are color-blind.

450. Glass is not a solid; it is a fluid with extremely high viscosity.

451. Half of the average male’s body weight is muscle.

452. Hummingbird can fly up to speeds of 70 mph.

453. It takes about 25 seconds for blood to circulate through the body.

454. One in twenty people are color-blind (usually males).

455. Scientists believe a new star is born every 18 days.

456. Seawater is on average about 3 to 4% salt; however, the Dead Sea is 25% salt.

457. Skin cells typically live 19 to 34 days.

458. Sweat produces enough nutrition to feed 65,000 bacteria per square inch of the human body.

459. The average time between blinks of the eye: 2.8 seconds.

460. The world’s longest reef: Great Barrier Reef at 1,250 miles.

461. The brain uses 20% of the body’s total blood supply.

462. Ticks can live for 25 years.

463. The thickest skin is on the upper back; the thinnest is on the eyelids.

464. Average lifespan of a housefly is 2.5 months; amazingly, a tortoise on the other hand could live to be 150 years old.

465. Thunder can be heard up to 20 miles away.

466. The United States averages 708 tornadoes every year.

467. The oldest species of tree in the U.S. is the bristlecone pine of Nevada and California.

468. Krakatoa volcano’s detonation in 1883 generated the loudest sound historically reported; it was heard as far away as Perth in Australia, over 1,900 miles in distance.

469. Snakes have been clocked at 12 mph.

470. Insects outnumber people a million to one.

471. A queen termite can lay up to 30,000 eggs per day.

472. The goliath beetle is the world’s heaviest insect (around 3.5 ounces) and is about 4 inches in length.

473. The annoying no-see-ums (aka sand flies) can flap their wings 63,000 times a minute.

474. The naked mole rat is the only cold-blooded adult mammal (found in parts of East Africa).

475. The American opossum’s gestation period is 12-13 days; the elephant’s is around 22 months.

476. First video game to gain widespread popularity was Pong, released in 1972.

477. Sony created a new fad with their introduction of the Sony Walkman in 1980.

478. A record is played from the outside in; a CD is played in reverse, from the inside out.

479. A butterfly’s life span averages a week to ten days.

480. Dogs can make around 10 vocal sounds; cats can make over 100.

481. A baby panda is smaller than a stick of butter and weigh 3 to 4 ounces.

482. The Canary Islands are named for a breed of dog, not a canary bird.

483. The adult octopus has ~2,000 suction cups on average.

484. Cats can jump as high as the length of their tail times five.

485. All coffee is grown within 1,000 miles of the equator.

486. Earth’s water is 97% salt water, 2% frozen water, and 1% fresh water.

487. Frogs jump and toads walk.

488. Nitrogen accounts for 75% of the earth’s atmosphere.

489. Any color can be made from these three colors: magenta, cyan, and yellow.

490. Alligators have an average lifespan of 50 years; for crocodiles, it is around 100.

491. Spiders appeared on Earth about 170 million years before the first dinosaurs.

492. The only letter missing from the periodic table of elements is J.

493. Whole milk is 87% water.

494. Invertebrates make up 95% of all animal species.

495. 25 million gallons of water can fall during a 20 minute thunderstorm.

496. Robert Wadlow is the tallest person in history, measuring 8’11” (size 37 shoe).

497. The longest living sea creature is the quahog clam (150 years).

498. The fingernail on your middle finger grows faster than the nails on the other fingers do.

499. You dream an average of 5 times a night with each successive dream lasting longer.

500. It takes over a half a million trees to supply North Americans with their Sunday newspaper.

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