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314. The smallest man alive is 26 inches tall.

315. The surface area of an average sized brick is 79cm

316. The Tea Council of the United States has designated June National Ice Tea Month.

317. The Tinguian people of Philippines have their own way of kissing. They put their lips close to each other's face and quickly inhale.

318. The top three cork-producing countries are Spain, Portugal and Algeria.

319. The U.S shreds seven thousand tons of worn-out currency each year.

320. The U.S. mint in Denver, Colorado is the only mint that marks its pennies.

321. The U.S. national anthem

322. The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

323. The University of Calgary offers a two-day course in igloo building.

324. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest military decoration.

325. The woman who appeared on the most on the covers of Time magazine is the Virgin Mary, 10 times.

326. The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 440 hours.

327. The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 196


328. In 1978, more deer were killed by Connecticut automobile drivers than by Connecticut hunters.

329. In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios.

330. In Michigan, USA, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant.

331. In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather correctly 28% of the time. The rushing back and forth from burrows is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking.

332. It can take as long as 4 hours to hard-boil an ostrich egg.

333. It is estimated that millions of trees are planted by forgetful squirrels.

334. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up in the sky.

335. It takes 12,000 head of cattle to produce one pound of adrenaline.

336. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest the food it eats.

337. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down.

338. Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.

339. Jackrabbits can reach a speed of 50 miles per hour and can leap as high as five feet.

340. Jaguars are scared of dogs.

341. Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.

342. Lorne Green had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.

343. Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.

344. Man and the two-toed sloth are the only land animals that typically mate face-to-face.

345. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

346. Mexican free-tailed bats sometimes fly up to two miles high to feed or to catch tail-winds that carry them over long distances at speeds of more than 60 miles per hour.

347. Mice will nurse babies that are not their own.

348. Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

349. Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.

350. Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.

351. More than a third of the field mice in the Kesterson National Wildlife refuge near Los Banos, California have both male and female reproductive organs.

352. Most published species of dinosaurs have been published within the last 20 years.


353. The World Trade Center in New York has 43,600 windows.

354. The world's biggest rubber band is 1,203,840 inches long.

355. The world's first ski chair lift was modeled after a device that loaded bananas onto cargo ships.

356. The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 198

357. The world's largest bullfighting ring is in Mexico City.

358. The world's largest K-Mart is on the island of Guam.

359. The world's longest gum wrapper chain is 30,744 feet long.

360. There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State Building.

361. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

362. There are eight different sizes of champagne bottles and the largest is called a Nebuchadnezzar (after the biblical king who put Daniel's three friends into the oven).

363. There is a law firm by the name of "Lawless & Linch" in Jamaica.

364. There is a post office on the Russian space station Mir.

365. There is a systematic lull in conversation every 7 minutes.

366. There is an army general in Liberia who use to lead his army into battle naked. His name was General Butt Naked. He is now an evangelical preacher.

367. There is no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables.

368. There is no rice in rice paper.

369. This sentence ends with a period.

370. Tibetans, Mongolians, and people in parts of western China put salt in their tea instead of sugar.

371. TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

372. Until 1990, sausages were still legal tender in East Germany.

373. When the Hoovers did not want to be overheard by White House guests, they spoke to each other in Chinese.

374. Windmills always turn counter-clockwise--except for the windmills in Ireland.

375. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals.


376. Mountain goats are not goats. They are small antelopes.

377. Next to man, the porpoise is the most intelligent creature on earth.

378. No pearls of value are ever found in North American oysters.

379. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

380. One species of antelope, the Sitatunga, can sleep underwater.

381. Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crab are actually from Maryland the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.

382. Orangutans warn people to stay out of their territory by belching.

383. Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.

384. Peacocks mate with Peahens.

385. Penguins do not tip over when a airplane flies over them.

386. Porcupines are excellent swimmers, because their quills are hollow.

387. Rat's can't vomit.

388. Reindeer like to eat bananas.

389. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

390. Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.

391. Roosters cannot crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

392. Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.

393. Seals must teach their young how to swim.

394. Six bulls are killed in a formal bullfight.

395. Slugs have four noses.

396. Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.

397. Some dinosaurs were as small as hens.

398. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.

399. Southern Indian drug addicts get high by having venomous snakes bite their tongues. This can give addicts a 16 hour high, but can be very deadly.

400. Tarantulas cannot spin webs


401. Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs.

402. The Abominable Snowman is said to wander the Himalayas.

403. The adult Electric Eel has enough electrical power in them that could power a house of about twelve hundred square feet.

404. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.

405. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

406. The average porcupine has more than 30,000 quills.

407. The beautiful but deadly Australian sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) is the most venomous jellyfish in the world. Its cardio toxic venom has caused the deaths of 66 people off the coast of Queensland since 1880, with victims dying within 1-3 minutes if medical aid is not available.

408. The Blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grape juice.

409. The brown myotis bats young when born are equivalent to a woman giving birth to a thirty pound baby.

410. The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel.

411. The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.

412. The cheetah can reach a speed of up to 45 miles per hour in only 2 seconds.

413. The color of a yak's milk is pink.

414. The deepest penguin dive was 1261 ft under the water.

415. The dove is considered the symbol of peace.

416. The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.

417. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

418. The female ferret is referred to as a jill.

419. The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.

420. The goose was the first domesticated animal.

421. The guinea pig originated in South America.

422. The hippopotamus is the hogs largest living relative.

423. The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal

424. The Kansas City Railroad use to stop their trains, in 1868, to allow the passengers to shoot at passing buffalo.

425. The Latin name for moose is alces alces.


426. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk

427. The life-span of a squirrel is about nine years.

428. The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months.

429. The longest species of centipede is the giant scolopender (Scolopendra gigantea), found in the rain forests of Central and South America. It has 23 segments (46 legs) and specimens have been measured up to 10.5 inches long and 1” in diameter.

430. The longest species of earthworm is the Megascolides australis, found in Australia in 1868. An average specimen measures 4’ in length, 2’ when contracted, and 7’ when naturally extended.

431. The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female gypsy moth from 8 miles away.

432. The moose is the largest member of the deer family. Its scientific name is Alces alces.

433. The Nile and Indo-Pacific Saltwater Crocodiles are the only two crocodiles that are considered true man-eaters.

434. The octopus' testicles are located in its head.

435. The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

436. The only female animal that has antlers is the caribou.

437. The only purple animal is the South African Blesbok.

438. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

439. The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

440. The poisonous copperhead smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

441. The Portuguese man-of-war "jellyfish" tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.

442. The province of Alberta, Canada has been completely free of rats since 190

443. The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

444. The Quahog clam is the longest living animal, with a maximum age of up to 200 years old.

445. The queen (or more precisely the Royal Household) owns all swans in England. The post of Royal Swankeeper is a post that has been around pre-1215 and he and his staff are responsible for keeping accurate statistics about the number and whereabouts of the royal swans.

446. The scientific name for a gorilla is "gorilla gorilla gorilla."

447. The shrimp's heart is in its head.

448. The tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes -- two in the center of its head and one on top.

449. The tuatara's metabolism is so slow, they only have to breathe once an hour.

450. The typical laboratory mouse runs 5 miles per night on its treadmill.


451. The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.

452. The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet long.

453. The word alligator comes from "El Lagarto" which is Spanish for "The Lizard."

454. The world camel population is 19,627,000.

455. The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny

456. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

457. The zorilla is the smelliest animal on the planet. It's anal glands can be smelled from half a mile away.

458. There are an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

459. There have been over 1,500 documented sightings of Bigfoot since 1958.

460. There is no record of a non-rabid wolf attack on a human.

461. Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.

462. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs--it will let you go instantly.

463. To keep cool, ostriches urinate on their legs; it then evaporates like sweat.

464. To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otter tie themselves together with kelp, often drifting miles out to sea during the night.

465. To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.

466. Toads don't have teeth, frogs do.

467. When angered, the Tazmanian devil turns pinkish-red.

468. When cornered, the horned toad shoots blood from it's eyes.

469. When young, black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.

470. Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth, and giraffe tails have all been used as money.

471. Worldwide, bats are the most important natural enemies of night-flying insects.

472. Yak's milk is pink.

473. You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.


474. 7'1 basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's parents were 5'8.

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