* A baby blue whale can gain two hundred pounds a day.

* A lion’s roar can be heard from ten miles away.

* Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain.

* In the Bible, dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times.

* A camel can go without water for two months.

* A tortoise can live to be more than one hundred years old.

* The chemical luciferin makes fireflies glow in the dark.

* The first bicycle, invented in 1817 by Baron von Drais, didn’t have any pedals.

* The first steam powered passenger train was invented by Robert Stephenson in 1825.

* It was Elias Howe, not Whitcomb Judson, who invented the zipper.

* Pinocchio was made of pine.

* Charlie Brown’s father was a barber.

* A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.

* Kiwi birds are blind. They hunt by smell.

* Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the deaths of their cats.

* The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

* Bees must collect the nectar from two thousand flowers to make one tablespoonful of honey.

* A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

* A group of geese is called a gaggle.

* Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

* The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world — 15 inches in diameter (that’s the size of a basketball).

* A group of owls is called a parliament.

* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

* A group of ravens is called a murder.

* Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.

* Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag — it’s green.

* New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.

* New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.

* The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

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