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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.
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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. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Th-Bangkok_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.