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"Worldwide there are about 26 million human pesticide poisonings each year, and about 220,000 deaths.",
"The Portuguese Man-of-War, a jellyfish like creature, has tentacles that may be more than 30m (about 100 ft) long.",
"Electric eels are capable of emitting a discharge of 600 volts.",
"The Pitohui, a bird from New Guinea, has poisonous skin and feathers.",
"The bark of the Willow tree was the original source for making aspirin.",
"Fresh water weighs approximately 8.4 pounds per gallon.",
"Man is the only animal that sleeps on its back.",
"Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.",
"Cows don't have upper front teeth.",
"A cat has over 100 vocal sounds.",
"A cat flea can jump 13.4 inches in the air.",
"A sparrow has more vertebrae than a giraffe.",
"Owls can't be heard when they fly.",
"The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.",
"Cats only perspire through the pads of their paws.",
"The whiptail lizard of the Southwest U.S. are all female.",
"Bumblebees are deaf.",
"Polar bears can smell their prey from up to 20 miles away.",
"Dragonflies can reach speeds of 60mph when pursuing smaller insects.",
"Only female mosquitoes drink blood. Males eat nectar.",
"The beluga whale does not have a dorsal fin.",
"Penguins only live below the equator.",
"When cornered, the horned toad shoots blood from it's eyes.",
"When diving down on prey, the peregrine falcon can reach speeds of nearly 200mph.",
"Each gorilla has a unique nose print.",
"If damaged, a spider can shed a leg and grow a new one.",
"That the average child sees 20,000 T.V. commercials per year.",
"That the average American child spends 1,680 minutes per week watching T.V., and only 39 minutes per week in meaningful conversations with their parents.",
"That the Sun's temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface, and 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the center.",
"That after cats eat, they always immediately bathe themselves. This is because their instincts tell them to get the food scent off of them so that predators will not smell the food and come after them.",
"That ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.",
"That the abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself, and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.",
"That the Slave-Maker Ant (Polyergus Rufescens) raids the nests of other ants and steals their pupae. When these new ants hatch, they work as slaves within the colony. The worker ants keep the eggs and larvae in different groups according to ages.",
"That a cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.",
"That a rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.",
"That the shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.",
"That a polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.",
"That dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.",
"That Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.",
"That the word 'stewardesses' is the longest English word typed with only the left hand.",
"That  Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.",
"That women blink nearly twice as much as men.",
"That the sentence 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter in the English language.",
"That the names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.",
"That TYPEWRITER is the longest word in the English language  that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.",
"That if the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.",
"That a snail can sleep for 3 years.",
"That China has more English speakers than the United States.",
"That the electric chair was invented by a dentist.",
"That Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000, and is 108.7 acres in size.",
"That you share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.",
"That no president of the United States was an only child.",
"The military budget siphons away 60% of our taxes-one third of which is spent policing Persian Gulf oil sources in peace time, which constitutes over 70% of our trade deficit. - People Power",
"1 out of 74,000 people in China own a car. - Worldwatch Institute",
"In 1989 Californians drove 241 billion miles, the equivalent of 13 round trips to the moon. - Rides for Bay Area Commuters",
"All but one of the ocean-going salmon in the Pacific Northwest face a growing risk of extinction throughout most of their range, due to habitat degradation and over-fishing.",
"A typical 1,700 square-foot wood frame house requires the equivalent of 1 acre of forest timber.",
"One-half of our nation's lakes and one third of our nation's rivers are too polluted to be completely safe for swimming or fishing.",
"On average, Americans throw away 20,000 televisions, 150,000 tons of packaging materials, and 43,000 tons of food per day.",
"You need about 500 full-sized trees to absorb the carbon dioxide produced by a typical car driven 20,000 km/year.",
"Every year Americans fill enough garbage trucks to form a line that would stretch from the earth, halfway to the moon.",
"Almost 1/3 of the waste generated in America is packaging.",
"In 1986, the United States generated almost 160 million tons of paper, glass, metals, plastics, rubber, food and yard waste. This was an increase of 80% over the figures in 1960.",
"Every year Americans buy more than a billion incandescent light bulbs. That is three acres of light bulbs a day.",
"An average American child will use 8,000 disposable diapers before being potty trained.",
"Americans throw away 570 diapers per second. That's 49 million diapers per day.",
"Seventy-six percent of Americans consider themselves environmentalists.",
"Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap the state of Texas.",
"Switzerland leads the world in the percentage of glass recycled with 89%. The U.S. is 5th at 32%.",
"In America, 1,500 aluminum cans are recycled every second.",
"Recycling an aluminum soda can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore, and produces 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution.",
"We throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild our commercial air fleet every three months, and enough iron and steel to supply all our nation's auto makers every day.",
"If you stacked all the refrigerators Americans buy in a single week, you'd have a tower more than 80 miles high.",
"The average American uses 650 pounds of paper a year.",
"Each year we trash enough office paper to build a 12-foot wall from Los Angeles to New York City.",
"Americans toss out enough paper & plastic cups, forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times.",
"The average American office worker goes through around 500 disposable cups every year.",
"Americans make nearly 400 billion photocopies a year - about 750,000 copies every minute of every day.",
"American businesses throw out 15 million toner cartridges every year; enough to stretch from New York to Zurich.",
"Over 500 million oil filters have to be disposed of each year.",
"Out of a barrel of crude oil you can get 2.5 quarts of virgin motor oil, while it takes only a gallon of used motor oil to get the same amount of high quality motor oil.",
"Every day American families produce an estimated 4 millon pounds of household hazardous waste (nail polish, paint thinner, batteries, etc.",
"Enough hazardous waste is generated in one year to fill the New Orleans Superdome 1500 times over.",
"Butterflies taste with their feet.",
"An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.",
"Starfish don't have brains.",
"Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.",
"Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.",
"You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.",
"Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.",
"The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.",
"The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.",
"A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight",
"Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.",
"The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.",
"A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.",
"The Pony Express lasted only about 18 months, from 1860 to 1861.",
"Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.",
"Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.",
"The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.",
"Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.",
"Pearls melt in vinegar",
"It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.",
"The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases",
"Richard Milhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal. The second? William Jefferson Clinton.",
"The Eiffel Tower's height varies by as much as 6 inches due to temperature.",
"It is physically impossible to lick your elbow (try it!)",
"The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.",
"The inventors of Pepsi, Coke and Dr. Pepper were all Civil War veterans.",
"Mozart wrote Twinkle Twinkle Little Star when he was 5 years old.",
"2/3 of the first 30 U.S.  presidents didn't have middle names.",
"An adult male Siberian tiger can grow to 12 feet in length from its head to tip of its tail, and weigh 650 pounds.",
"A Tiger's night vision is six times better than human's",
"Monarch Butterflies grow to 3,000 times their birth weight in the first two weeks of life!",
"Monarchs Butterflies are believed to guide themselves during migration using the position of the sun and the magnetic field of the earth",
"Slugs have 4 noses",
"There are four cars and eleven lightposts on the back of a $10 dollar bill",
"The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA'",
"The first product Motorola started to develop was a radio for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.",
"If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.",
"Only female ducks can quack.",
"The giant squid is the world's largest invertebrate. It can grow to more than 50 feet in length with eyes the size of basketballs",
"That honeybees have hair on their eyes.",
"The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.",
"The 10 U.S. states with bottle bills -- laws that encourage recycling by requiring a refundable deposit on beer, soft drink and other beverage containers -- recycle 70 percent of their drink containers (including bottles that do not require a deposit). States with no deposit law recycle less than 30 percent of theirs.",
"There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.",
"Fleas can jump more than 200 times their body length.",
"Crickets don't chirp by rubbing their legs together, they make the noise by rubbing their wings together.",
"Crocodiles, among the oldest living animals on earth, first appeared approximately 200 million years ago during the Age of Reptiles.",
"There are 4,300 known species of ladybugs in the world.",
"You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.",
"On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, 20 million people participated in rallies and activities around the United States. Both houses of Congress stood in recess in honor of the occasion",
"Until very recently, no centipede was found that did not have an ODD number of leg pairs.",
"Lungfish are neither true fish nor amphibians, but odd mixtures of the two. They have both gills and a single lung, which is used to breathe air during high exertion or when oxygen levels in water are low",
"62 degrees Fahrenheit is the minimum temperature required for a grasshopper to be able to hop.",
"Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.",
"Once pollinated, yellow lantana flowers turn red, a color butterflies can't see. This causes the insects to concentrate on other, unpollinated flowers.",
"Laysan albatrosses, among the world's largest flying birds, spend their entire lives at sea, returning to land only to breed",
"The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.",
"Unlike seals and walruses, sea otters lack blubber to keep them warm. Instead, air trapped in their fur insulates their bodies -- which is why they're so vulnerable to oil spills. When the fur becomes matted, the otters grow cold and die",
"Mining companies extract $3 billion worth of minerals each year from U.S. public lands. But under the 130-year-old law that governs mining operations, they don’t pay a penny in royalties",
"More than 5,000 years ago, the Chinese discovered how to make silk from silkworm cocoons. For about 3,000 years, the Chinese kept this discovery a secret. Because poor people could not afford real silk, they tried to make other cloth look silky. Women would beat on cotton with sticks to soften the fibers. Then they rubbed it against a big stone to make it shiny. The shiny cotton was called chintz. Because chintz was a cheaper copy of silk, calling something chintzy means it is cheap and not of good quality",
"A pelican's pouch can hold up to three gallons of water, and up to three times as much food as its stomach.",
"The United States consumes over 20 million barrels of oil per day.",
"The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.",
"Turtles and honeybees are both deaf."
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