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 lefthandedness. 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. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com mons/4/49/ThBangkok_ceremonial_name.ogg 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.