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The Statue of Liberty’s index finger is eight feet long.
Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Footprints left on the moon by astronauts will remain visible for at least ten million years.
A person living to age 75 will have slept about 220,000 hours, or about 23 years.
A Boeing 747’s wingspan is longer than the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
They have square watermelons in Japan. They’re grown in boxes to make them stack better.
A drivable sofa? Features include a pizza pan steer wheel; cola can brake pedal, and a coffee table.
There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.
Mel Blanc, the man who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
The word "set" has the highest number of separate definitions in the English language: 192.
Slugs have four noses.
"Ough" can be pronounced eight different ways in the English language.
Sharks can live up to hundred years.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the blue twice as much as any other color.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
You would need 14,826 billion fireflies to generate as much light as the sun produces.
An underground mushroom in Oregon is 3.5 miles across and covers an area larger that 1,600 football fields.
A snail could crawl along the edge of a razor without getting cut because it produces a sticky liquid that forms a protected coating under its body.
Tigers have striped skin not just stripped fur.
The California state flag was originally supposed to feature a pear, not a bear.
A Kangaroo can’t jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
Fish can’t blink because they don’t have eyelids.
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.
Approximately 75 acres of pizza are consumed in the Untied States every day.
There aren’t any billboards in the state of Vermont.
"Sneaker" was first used to describe a rubber-soled tennis in 1873.
It’s supposedly impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The largest recorded snowflake-15inches wide and 8 inches thick- fell in Montana in 1887.
The tip of a bullwhip moves up to 90 feet that the sound it makes is a tiny sonic boom.
An elephant will extract its own infected tooth using tree branches and sharp rocks as tools.
Is it bedtime yet? A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.
Former US President Bill Clinton sent only 2 e-mails in his entire 8-year presidency.
Koalas are the only animals besides humans and other primates that have fingerprints.
A fly flies slower when the sun is behind the clouds than when it’s sunny.
The Sahara Dessert in Africa is approximately the same size as the U.S.A.
The ski-doo snowmobile was originally supposed to be called the ski-dog; there was a typo.
Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been birds.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
With 200 million insects for every human, it’s a good thing there are millions of bug-loving birds and bats.
It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery that celery has in it to begin with.
The last record for cramming people into a Volks Wagon Beetle was made in the year 2000 by 25 Austrians.
Starfish have multiple eyes, one at the end of each leg.
The world’s largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students enrolled in 2002.
An octopus has three hearts.
There is about ¼ pound of salt in each galloon of seawater.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.

# posted by tj @ 7:14 PM