SNAPPLE FACTS

SNAPPLE FACTS

SNAPPLE FACT #677

• A full-grown tree produces enough oxygen to support a family of four.

SNAPPLE FACT #683

• Snails have teeth.

SNAPPLE FACT #693

• A male cricket’s ear is located on the tibia of its leg.

SNAPPLE FACT #694

• Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.

SNAPPLE FACT #698

• The jaguar, the largest cat in the Western Hemisphere, once lived all over the southern U.S.

SNAPPLE FACT #708

• Manufacturing recycled goods uses up to 95% less energy than using raw materials.

SNAPPLE FACT #711

• To estimate the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, count the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds then add 37.

SNAPPLE FACT #712

• 100% recyclable, old newspapers are great for washing windows.

SNAPPLE FACT #714

• When thirsty, a camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.

SNAPPLE FACT #721

• The pomegranate is one of the oldest fruits known to man.

SNAPPLE FACT #724

• A pineapple is neither an apple or a pine. It is, in fact, a large berry.

SNAPPLE FACT #729

• Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.

SNAPPLE FACT #730

• The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia.

SNAPPLE FACT #732

• The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

SNAPPLE FACT #743

• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

SNAPPLE FACT #749

• The average housefly lives for one month.

SNAPPLE FACT #754

• An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.

SNAPPLE FACT #763

• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

SNAPPLE FACT #767

• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

SNAPPLE FACT #770

• Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.

SNAPPLE FACT #772

• Male moose shed their antlers every winter and grow a new pair the next year.

SNAPPLE FACT #784

• The human brain is about 20% water.

SNAPPLE FACT #790

• Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.

SNAPPLE FACT #795

• Hawaii is moving toward Japan at the rate of almost 4 inches per year.

SNAPPLE FACT #800

• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

SNAPPLE FACT #803

• Antarctica is the only continent with no owls.

SNAPPLE FACT #804

• There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

SNAPPLE FACT #805

• India has a Bill of Rights for cows.

SNAPPLE FACT #806

• In Albania, nodding your head means “no” and shaking your head means “yes”.

SNAPPLE FACT #807

• Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump”.

SNAPPLE FACT #815

• The name of the city we call Bangkok is 115 letters long in the Thai language.

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SNAPPLE FACT #816

• In Ancient Greece throwing an apple to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.

SNAPPLE FACT #818

• The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.

SNAPPLE FACT #826

• In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

SNAPPLE FACT #828

• Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.

SNAPPLE FACT #835

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

SNAPPLE FACT #836

• Pomology is the study of fruit.

SNAPPLE FACT #839

• A cucumber consists of 96% water.

SNAPPLE FACT #844

• One lump of sugar is equivalent to three feet of sugar cane.

SNAPPLE FACT #848

• Wild camels once roamed Arizona’s deserts.

SNAPPLE FACT #856

• The world’s largest silver nugget (1840 lbs.) was found in 1894 near Aspen, Colorado.

SNAPPLE FACT #858

• New Jersey is home to the world’s first drive-in movie theater.

SNAPPLE FACT #861

• South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the U.S.

SNAPPLE FACT #865

• Harry Truman was the last U.S. President to not have a college degree.

SNAPPLE FACT #866

• Abraham Lincoln was the tallest U.S. President at

6’ 4”. James Madison was the shortest at 5’ 4”.

SNAPPLE FACT #870

• President Warren G. Harding once lost White House china in a poker game.

SNAPPLE FACT #872

• President William Taft weighed over 300 lbs. and once got stuck in the White House bathtub.

SNAPPLE FACT #876

• The youngest U.S. president to be in office was Theodore Roosevelt at age 42.

SNAPPLE FACT #886

• The bumblebee bat is the smallest mammal on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.

SNAPPLE FACT #887

• The “Valley of Square Trees” in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.

SNAPPLE FACT #888

• In some cultures’ telling of Snow White, the Dwarfs are thieves.

SNAPPLE FACT #889

• The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.

SNAPPLE FACT #890

• The number “1” or the word “one” appears on the dollar bill 16 times.

SNAPPLE FACT #894

• Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.

SNAPPLE FACT #897

• The Mayflower only held 102 people.

SNAPPLE FACT #900

• Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.

SNAPPLE FACT #906

• Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

SNAPPLE FACT #913

• The Saturn V moon rocket consumed 15 tons of fuel per second.

SNAPPLE FACT #917

• The average lead pencil can draw a line 35 miles long or write roughly 50,000 English words.

SNAPPLE FACT #926

• George Washington was the only unanimously elected President.

SNAPPLE FACT #927

• John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his vice-president, Thomas Jefferson.