The world’s first escalator was built in Coney Island, NY, in 1896.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was composed by Mozart when he was five years old.
The first vacuum was so large it was brought to a house with horses.
A female kangaroo is called a Flyer.
The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
One out of every eight residents in the U.S. lives in California.
If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.
Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree’s rings reveal its age.
Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 miles per hour.
The average person uses 150 gallons of water a day for personal use.
Colors like red, yellow and orange make you hungry.
Thailand means “Land of the Free.”
Among North Atlantic lobsters, 1 in 5,000 is born bright blue.
Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda’s diet.
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down stairs.
Atlantic salmon are capable of leaping 15 feet high.
Frowning burns more calories than smiling.
The amount of concrete used in the Hoover Dam could build a highway from New York to California.
The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
A banana is a giant herb.
Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.
A turkey can run 20 M.P.H.
The first TV remote control, introduced in 1950, was called Lazy Bones.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
There are more French restaurants in New York City than in Paris.
The Average American walks 18,000 steps a day.
The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
The city of Los Angeles has 3x more automobiles then people.
Elephants sleep only 2 hours a day.
Chinese is the most spoken language in the world.
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and fingertips.
The oldest known animal was a tortoise and lived to be 152 yrs old.
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
It took Leonardo da Vinci 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.
The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
“Challenger Deep” is the deepest point on Earth and can hold 25 Empire State Buildings end to end.
You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
