1. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

  2. A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).

  3. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.

  4. A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.

  5. A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.

  6. A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour.

  7. A perfect game in baseball is one in which the same player pitches the entire game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base -by any means.

  8. A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

  9. A person has to travel west to get from Los Angeles, CA to Reno, NV.

  10. A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

  11. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

  12. A piano leg went through the floor of the white house in 1948 during President Truman's term.

  13. A pied-billed grebe is called a peebeegeebee by birdwatchers.

  14. A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.

  15. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

  16. A pineapple is a berry.

  17. A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

  18. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.

  19. A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.

  20. A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

  21. A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.

  22. A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.

  23. A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters."

  24. A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.

  25. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit

  26. A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.

  27. A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

  28. A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.

  29. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

  30. A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

  31. A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.

  32. A recent study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.

  33. A Red Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on earth

  34. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

  35. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

  36. A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!

  37. A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.

  38. A scrum in rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing the forward position on both teams.

  39. A SEAL's weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.

  40. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

  41. A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.

  42. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

  43. A shrimp's heart is in its head.

  44. A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.

  45. A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.

  46. A snail can actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself. This has something to do with the mucus it produces.

  47. A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

  48. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

  49. A snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.

  50. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

  51. A soccer ball has 32 panels.

  52. A speleologist studies caves.

  53. A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.

  54. A spremologer collects trivia.

  55. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

  56. A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

  57. A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

  58. A study of pet owners found that 66% claimed they allowed their pets to remain in the bedroom during intercourse.

  59. A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.

  60. A ton of potatoes will yield 28.6 gallons of absolute alcohol. Potatoes are an important source for commercial alcohol.

  61. A total of 63 errors were made in the 1886 World Series.

  62. A traditional dish from Savolax, called "kalakukko" (fishcock in engl.) is made of white fish and porkfat encased in a baked crust of rye.

  63. A two-inch garden hose will carry four times as much water as a one-inch hose.

  64. A type of rabbit can mate 12 hours after giving birth

  65. A typical American eats 28 pigs in his/her lifetime.

  66. A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

  67. A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

  68. A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags

  69. A volcano can shoot its debris as high as 50km into the sky.

  70. A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.

  71. A whale's penis is called a dork.

  72. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

  73. A whole library floor of books can be stored on 50 Gigabytes.

  74. A wind with a speed of 74 miles or more is designated a hurricane.

  75. A women's heart beats faster than men.

  76. A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.

  77. A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

  78. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".

  79. A young lady named Ellen Church convinced Boeing Air Transport that her nursing skills and love of flying would qualify her to assist with the passengers and emergencies. She became the first known stewardess.

  80. A zebra is white with black stripes.

  81. ABBA GOLD has been in the UK charts for over 280 weeks, thats over 5 years

  82. Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.

  83. Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.

  84. About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

  85. About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.

  86. About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

  87. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.

  88. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

  89. About 24% of the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.

  90. About 55% of all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.

  91. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.

  92. About 75% of the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.

  93. About 80% of the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

  94. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

  95. About one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.

  96. Abraham Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.

  97. Abraham Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.

  98. Absinthe is another name for the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and the name of a licorice-anise flavored green liqueur that was created at the end of the 18th century, and manufactured by Henry-Louis Pernod. Called the 'green Muse' it became very popular in the 19th century, but was eventually banned in most countries beginning in 1908. The reason is the presence of the toxic oil 'thujone' in wormwood, which was one of the main ingredients of Absinthe. Absinthe seemed to cause brain lesions, convulsions, hallucinations and severe mental problems. Thujone was the culprit, along with the fact that Absinthe was manufactured with an alcohol content of 68% or 132 proof.

  99. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

  100. According to a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.

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