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117. A species of Australian dragon fly has been clocked at 36 MPH.

118. A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

119. A square mile of fertile earth has 32,000,000 earthworms in it.

120. A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.

121. A strand from the web of the golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.

122. A woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour, but it only breathes ten times an hour while it is hibernating.

123. A woodchuck breathes only 10 times in hibernation.

124. According to Dr. David Gems, a British geneticist, sex-craved male mice, who spend 5 to 11 hours per day pursuing female mice, could live years longer if they abstained.

125. After eating, the housefly regurgitates its food and eats it again.

126. All porcupines float in water.

127. All the swans in England are property of the Queen.

128. Alligators cannot move backwards.

129. An estimated 80% of animals on Earth have six legs.

130. An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

131. An Octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry.

132. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

133. 9% Of Americans report being in the presence of a ghost.

134. A baby in Florida was named Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His middle name is George James.

135. A Japanese company hired a soothsayer to throw dice to help determine on which floor of the two 110-story World Trade Center they should have their offices on.

136. A nihilist believes in nothing.

137. A notaphile collects bank notes.

138. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

139. According to ancient Chinese astrologers, 70% of omens are bad.

140. Austria was the very first country to ever use postcards.

141. Blue is the favorite color of 80% of Americans.

142. California has issued 6 drivers licenses to people named "Jesus Christ."

143. Deaf people have safer driving records on average than hearing people in the U.S.A.

144. If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

145. In 1992, there were over 5,345 landfill sites in the U.S.

146. In Brazil, a traffic jam was created when a couple kissing in a car got their dentures stuck together.

147. In New Mexico, over 11,000 people have visited a tortilla that has the face Jesus Christ burned into it.

148. It is a misconception to believe that watching TV in a dark room is bad for your eyes. This myth was created to help sell lamps in the early 1950's.

149. It is estimated that only 5-10% of the worlds information has been digitized.

150. Kindergarten lasts for 3 years in Japan.

151. Many sailors believe a cat on board a ship means a lucky trip.

152. Money is made of woven linen, not paper.

153. Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

154. More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby.

155. Most gemstones contain several elements, except the diamond; its all carbon.

156. Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.

157. No one seems to know why people blush.

158. Insects out number humans 100,000,000 to 1.

159. Mayflies only live one day as adults.

160. Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

161. Mosquitoes are the favorite food of dragonflies.

162. Mosquitoes have killed more people than have all the world's wars combined.

163. Mosquitoes have teeth.

164. Mosquitoes prefer cow blood to human blood.

165. Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced A Rainy Day.

166. Moths have no stomach.

167. On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

168. Only female mosquitoes bite.

169. Out of 20,000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.

170. Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

171. Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of the superflea--they are bigger than cockroaches.

172. Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.

173. Spiders have transparent blood.

174. The average flea can jump up to 150 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 100 feet.

175. The average housefly lives for one month.

176. The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.

177. The average person swallows three spiders annually.

178. The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.

179. The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.

180. The chances that you will be bitten by a scorpion are 1 in 2 million.

181. The Goliath beetle is about the size of your fist and can weigh as much as 3-4 ounces. (Source: Animals of the Rainforest)

182. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.

183. Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

184. Any female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters.

185. Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex.

186. At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

187. Australia has the largest sheep population.

188. Basilisks are frequently called Jesus Christ Lizards because of their ability to run on water.

189. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

190. Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

191. Bats can live up to 30 years or more.

192. Bees do not have ears.

193. Bees have 5 eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.

194. Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve.

195. Between 1902 and 1907 the same tiger killed 436 people in India.

196. Boanthropy is a disease in which a man thinks he's an ox.

197. Bulls are colorblind and will usually charge at a cape regardless of color.

198. Butterflies taste with their hind feet.

199. Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

200. Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. Humans, by comparison, have only about six hundred.

201. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

202. Cattle are the only mammals that are retro-mingent (they pee backwards).

203. Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.

204. Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.

205. Certain species of male butterflies produce scents that serve in attracting females during courtship.

206. Cockroaches favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.

207. During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.

208. Nobody won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1972

209. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-handed corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner

210. One billion seconds is about 32 years. (Source: Do the math.)

211. One legend claims stealing someone's shadow (by measuring it against a wall and driving a nail through its head) can turn the victim into a vampire.

212. One sign of rain that farmers once searched for was for their pigs to pick up sticks and walk around with them in their mouths.

213. One year contains 31,557,600 seconds.

214. One year is exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 54.5 seconds.

215. Original 'Indian Yellow' was obtained at Monghyr, a town in Bengal, from the urine of cows which had been fed on mango leaves. It was found in the bazaars of Punjab in the form of large balls, having an offensive urinous odor. True Indian yellow has been absent from the market for some time; its production is said to have been prohibited in 1908. Present day Indian yellow colors are made of synthetic pigments, alternatives that are less fugitive and less offensive to the nose!

216. Paranormal experts say people reach the peak of their ability to see ghosts when they're 7 years old.

217. Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. That is why walls are often sweaty after a fire.

218. Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.

219. Rice paper does not have rice in it.

220. Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols according to French Tradition.

221. Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a microwave in the building.

222. September 16-21 is Farm Animal Awareness Week.

223. Seven people have been struck by meteorite fragments.

224. Sinbad made a total of seven voyages.

225. Soldiers, from every country, salute with their right hand.

226. Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes. In the U.S., reported sightings are most likely to occur in July, at 9 p.m. or 3 a.m.

227. Someone within 200 miles of your town claims to have had direct contact with a monster, ghost or other unexplainable being.

228. Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.

229. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

230. Spilling salt is considered good luck in Japan.

231. Strange-but-real organizations that you might want to leave off of your resume: the institute of totally useless skills the international association of sand castle builders national society for prevention of cruelty to mushrooms cookie cutter collectors club international correspondence of corkscrew addicts

232. Students at U.S. colleges and universities read about 60,000 pages in four years.

233. Eagles can live in captivity for up to 46 years.

234. Earthworms have 5 hearts.

235. Estuarine crocodiles are the biggest of all 26 species of the crocodilian family.

236. Every single hamster in the U.S. today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

237. Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae.

238. Flamingos can live up to 80 years.

239. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.

240. Frog-eating bats identify edible from poisonous frogs by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls.

241. Frogs drink and breathe through their skin.

242. Frogs move faster than toads.

243. Frogs must close their eyes to swallow.

244. Fur seals get miserably sick when they're carried aboard ships.

245. Giant flying foxes that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet.

246. Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.

247. Giant tortoises can live to be 150 years old or older.

248. Golden toads are so rare that a biological reserve has been specifically created for them.

249. Gorillas beat their chests when they get nervous.

250. Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day.

251. Grasshoppers have white blood.

252. Herons have been observed to drop insects on the water and then catch the fish that surface for the bugs.

253. Hippopotamuses cannot swim.

254. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

255. If a frog's mouth is held open for too long the frog will suffocate.

256. Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.

257. In 1859, 24 rabbits were released in Australia. Within six years the population grew to 2 million.

258. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

259. The male of one species of insect related to the praying mantis can only reproduce after the female has bitten off his head.

260. The male scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a female fly.

261. The only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees is the praying mantis.

262. The silkworm moth, bombyx mori, has lost the ability to fly because it has been domesticated.

263. The total weight of all insects Earth, is twelve times greater than the weight of all people.

264. The venom in one little tiny Black Widow Spider is more potent than the venom in a Rattlesnake.

265. There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

266. There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are humans on the entire earth.

267. There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in it's body to kill six cats.

268. Through a complex system of chemical communication and constant feedback, an ant colony regulates the amount of worker and soldiers, and controls the timing of production of males and fertile females.

269. You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.

270. The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

271. The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.

272. The mother's purr acts as a homing device, announcing to her babies that nursing time has arrived. Kittens begin to purr in return at about one week of age — perhaps as a gesture of gratitude, or maybe as a request for milk — and continue to purr for the rest of their lives.

273. The number one favorite cat name is Kitty.

274. The oldest domestic cat (with reliable documentation) was a female tabby named Ma that lived to be 34 years old.

275. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

276. Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.

277. Vinegar was the strongest acid known in the ancient times.

278. Superstition says that the left side is the wrong side of the bed.

279. That condensed water vapor in the sky left behind by a high-flying jet is a contrail.

280. The 3 largest newspaper circulations are Russian.

281. The average adult can read 150-200 words a minute.

282. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.

283. The average web page contains 500 words.

284. The calories burned in one hour of running could bring about seven quarts of water to a boil.

285. The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room.

286. The duration record for a face-slapping contest was set in Kiev, USSR, in 1931 when a draw was declared between Bezbordny and Goniusch after 30 hours.

287. The first American flags were made of hemp cloth.

288. The first letters of the months July through November, in order, spell the name JASON.

289. The flag of the U.K. is properly known as the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flown from the jack mast of a ship.

290. The fragrance of flowers is due to the essences of oil which they produce.

291. The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.

292. The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.

293. The largest school in the world is a K-12 school in the Philippines, with an enrollment of 25,000.

294. The largest taxi fleet in the world is found in Mexico City. The city boasts a fleet of over 60,000 taxis.

295. The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.

296. The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.

297. The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called mantles) are radioactive--so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

298. The middle day of a non-leap year is July 2.

299. The most common telephone exchange number on television is 555.

300. The mythical figure Father Time carries an hourglass and a scythe.

301. The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every 100 years.

302. The national average ACT score is 17.

303. The Neanderthal man's brain was larger than the Homo Sapiens brain.

304. The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intelligence.

305. The official manual of the IRS is over 38,000 pages.

306. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic.

307. The only social fraternity founded during the Civil War was Theta Xi fraternity, at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1864.

308. The original IBM punchcard is the same size as a Civil War era dollar bill.

309. The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

310. The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port. This was so that they didn't knock off the starboard.

311. The rumba originated in Cuba.

312. The save icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutters on backwards.

313. The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same -- they are orthotetrachidecahedrons.