1. Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed (I'm not entirely sure how this helped him at all).
2. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic (and she provided 25 years of service unlike her counterpart).
3. Starfish have no brains (yet they are smarter than some humans).
4. Children grow faster in the springtime (there are just like rice - add spring rain).
5. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses (someone had a lot of time on their hands when they wrote this).
6. Butterflies taste with their hind feet (must be very convenient).
7. One out of every five doctors is Russian (you go Russians).
8. Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New Jersey (that is just absurd).
9. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system (it's found on Mars, in case you were wondering).
10. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise (it's clearly the only normal planet).
11. Elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom at 22 months. The longest human pregnancy on record is 17 months and 11 days (no wonder elephants are so big).
12. California consumes more bottled water than any other product (probably because it is so hot over there).
13. In 1936, American track star, Jesse Owens, beat a race horse over a 100-yard course. The horse was given a head start. (kinda scary, but it also reminds me of Jeffery because I feel like he could beat a horse).
14. A large, flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large, flawless diamond (because emeralds are always cooler than diamonds).
15. Mexican free-tailed bats sometimes fly up to two miles high to feed or to catch tail-winds that carry them over distances at speeds of more than 60 miles per hour (I feel like 60 mile winds are a bit dangerous).
16. It is estimated that millions of trees are planted by forgetful squirrels (thank you forgetful squirrels).
17. In "Silence of the Lambs," Hannibal Lector (Anthony) Hopkins never blinks (and yes, he did this on purpose).
18. In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket (who does this anyway?!).
19. A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through (I'm not sure how it helps though).
20. A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats 9,192,631,770 times a second (how does one even count this?).
21. A group of crows is called a murder (it's so perfect).
22. At latitude 60 degrees (south), you can sail all the way around the world (unless you run into a sea beast that refuses to move).
23. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed only the elephant in the Berlin Zoo (poor thing).
24. 99% of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun (well that's a no-brainer).
25. Ketchup was sold as medicine during the 1830s (I feel like it cured nothing).
- Delanna
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