Robert Pershing Wadlow was born, educated and buried in Alton, Illinois. His height of 8' 11.1" qualifies him as the tallest person in history, as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. At the time of his death he weighed 490 pounds.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
The average person laughs 15 times a day!
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