4/11/07 |
The top of the Empire State Building was originally built as a ... (read more) |
4/09/07 |
One out of every eight residents in the U.S. lives in California. (read more) |
4/06/07 |
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten ... (read more) |
4/04/07 |
Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice. (read more) |
4/02/07 |
The original name of Nashville, Tennessee was Big Salt Lick. (read more) |
3/30/07 |
The pineapple is a very big berry. (read more) |
3/28/07 |
The center of some golf balls contain honey. (read more) |
3/26/07 |
The act of chewing an apple is a more efficient way to... (read more) |
3/23/07 |
A male firefly's light is twice as bright as a female's... (read more) |
3/21/07 |
Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables... (read more) |
3/19/07 |
TV Dinners started in the artic...(read more) |
3/16/07 |
Grapes are the most popular fruit in the world... (read more) |
3/14/07 |
Of the 92 counties in Indiana, only 5 observe... (read more) |
3/12/07 |
Borborygmi is the noise that your stomach makes when you are... (read more) |
3/09/07 |
Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent... (read more) |
3/07/07 |
The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip... (read more) |
3/05/07 |
Snoopy is the most common dog name beginning with the letter S. (read more) |
3/02/07 |
There are seven letters that look the same upside down as right... (read more) |
2/28/07 |
The only bird who can see the color blue is the owl... (read more) |
2/26/07 |
Cold water weighs less than hot water... (read more) |
2/23/07 |
There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards. |
2/21/07 |
Jamie Farr (who played Klinger on M*A*S*H) was the only... (read more) |
2/16/07 |
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is manmade. |
2/14/07 |
In 75% of American households, women manage the money and... (read more) |
2/12/07 |
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named... (read more) |
2/09/07 |
The dial tone of a normal telephone is in the key of "F"... (read more) |
2/07/07 |
China has only one time zone... (read more) |
2/05/07 |
Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S... (read more) |
2/02/07 |
Long Island is the largest island in the Continental U.S... (read more) |
1/31/07 |
Nauru is the world's smallest independent republic. |
1/29/07 |
The name for the space between your eyebrows is "nasion." |
1/26/07 |
It is estimated that the world's oceans contain 10 billion tons of... (read more) |
1/22/07 |
Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue... (read more) |
1/19/07 |
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people... (read more) |
1/17/07 |
Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice... (read more) |
1/15/07 |
Ounce for ounce, strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges... (read more) |
1/12/07 |
Top-performing companies are called "blue chips" after the... (read more) |
1/10/07 |
Four Corners, AZ, is the only place where a person can stand in 4... (read more) |
1/08/07 |
"Disco" means "I learn" in Latin. |
1/05/07 |
About 18 percent of those who own pet animals also share their... (read more) |
1/03/07 |
The statute of liberty has seven points to its crown for each... (read more) |
12/29/06 |
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee. (read more) |
12/27/06 |
Thomas Edison coined the word "hello" and introduced... (read more) |
12/22/06 |
A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earworm. (read more) |
12/20/06 |
About 18% of animal owners share their beds with their pets. |
12/18/06 |
The Bronx in New York City is actually named after the Bronx River. (read more) |
12/15/06 |
The Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania (read more) |
12/13/06 |
The average raindrop falls at 7mph (read more) |
12/11/06 |
If Brooklyn, New York became independent of New York City, (read more) |
12/08/06 |
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11/20/06 |
Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the
world. (read more) |
11/17/06 |
The average raindrop falls at 7mph |
11/15/06 |
Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump |
11/13/06 |
There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is manmade. |
11/10/06 |
A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds (read more) |
11/08/06 |
Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye (read more) |
11/06/06 |
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11/03/06 |
The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy (read more) |
11/01/06 |
“The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping.” |
10/27/06 |
Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, carries the designation M-1 (read more) |
10/25/06 |
Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges |
10/23/06 |
Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water (read more) |
10/18/06 |
More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. |
10/16/06 |
Canada : Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
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10/11/06 |
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10/9/06 |
Amazon: The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen supply. (read more) |
10/6/06 |
The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses (read more) |
10/4/06 |
S.M.O.M.: The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world (read more) |
10/2/06 |
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in
every five must be straight. (read more) |
9/29/06 |
Cats can hear ultrasound (read more) |
9/27/06 |
New York City: The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz (read more) |
9/25/06 |
Elephants sleep only 2 hours a day. |
9/22/06 |
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country. |
9/20/06 |
PIG'S EYE - The name by which St Paul was originally known ( read more) |
9/19/06 |
The city of Los Angeles has three times more automobiles than people |
9/15/06 |
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9/06/06 |
Eleven of the fifty U.S. states are named after an actual person. |
9/05/06 |
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8/30/06 |
Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the U.S.
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8/28/06 |
Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee. |
8/25/06 |
There is an underground mushroom in Oregon that measures 3.5 miles across.
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8/23/06 |
The US is the largest country named after a real person
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8/21/06 |
The first U.S. penny had the motto "Mind your own business." |
8/18/06 |
If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12. |
8/16/06 |
---- Frogs don't drink water |