Explore Our Bottle Cap Real Facts #960

Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.

The Bee Hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber of the same size.

Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.

The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.

Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.

Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.

Cats can hear ultrasound.

Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.

A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.

1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.

You blink over 4 million times a year.

The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.

Pigs can get sunburn.

The lifespan of a taste bud is about ten days.

Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.

A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.

Kangaroos can jump 30 feet.

Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Frogs never drink.

Only male turkeys gobble.

At birth a Dalmatian is always pure white.

Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.

The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.

Beavers were once the size of bears.

A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.

Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.

Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

A crocodile cannot move its tongue.

Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.

Hawaii is the only state with one school district.

Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.

Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space.

The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.

The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house with horses.

One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.

The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.

The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico.

In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.

The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.

A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.

A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.

If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.

The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.

Opposite faces of dice always add up to 7.

The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.

A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.

An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.

The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.

The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.

Cows give more milk when they listen to music.

The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.

There are more saunas than cars in Finland.

A compass needle does not point directly north.

Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.

Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.

In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.

No two lip impressions are the same.

The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.

Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.

The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.

The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.

Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.

Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.

"Disco" means "I learn" in Latin.

Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.

The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.

Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.

Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.

A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.

U.S. paper currency isn’t made of paper – it’s actually a blend of cotton and linen.

Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.

One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.

The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.

Snails can sleep for up to three years.

The pupils in goats’ eyes are rectangular.

The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.

Human eyes have over two million working parts.

Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.

Astronauts actually get taller when in space.

A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.

Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.

The strike note of the Liberty Bell is E flat.

It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.

Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.

A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.

The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.

Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.

Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.

A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.

There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.

Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.

A spider’s silk is stronger than steel.

Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.

The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.

The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

All scorpions glow.

A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.

You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.

Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.

Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.

The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.

A group of goats is called a trip.

An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime. .

There are more chickens than people in the world.

A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

A duck has three eyelids.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Some bears build nests in trees to sunbathe and rest.

A group of jellyfish is called a smack.

The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.

Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.

The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.

It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.

It is not possible to tickle yourself.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.

Children grow faster during springtime.

It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.

Sailors once thought wearing gold earrings improved eyesight.

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

Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.

Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.

Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while preschoolers laugh an average of 300 times a day.

Children have more taste buds than adults.

A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.

Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.

The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.

Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.

Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.

Horses can't vomit.

A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.

A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.

Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.

Forty percent of twins invent their own language.

In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.

Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.

A pearl can be dissolved by vinegar.

The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.

A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.

At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.

The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.

There are 21 "secret" highways that are part of the Interstate Highway System. They are not identified as such by road signs.

The aphid insect is born pregnant.

It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.

It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the UK.

Tennis was originally played with bare hands.

Dolphins are unable to smell.

When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.

Cows do not have upper front teeth.

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.

Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.

To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.

Chicago is named after smelly garlic that once grew in the area.

Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.

Baby bunnies are called kittens.

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

Sea otters hold each other’s paws while sleeping so they don’t drift apart.

Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.

A cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.

A group of porcupines is called a prickle.

99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.

OMG was added to dictionaries in 2011, but it’s first known use was in 1917.

In the state of Arizona, it is illegal for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.

Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.

Norway once knighted a penguin.

The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.

Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.

One is the only number with letters in reverse alphabetical order.

DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.

Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.

Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.

Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

An octopus has nine brains and three hearts.

Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.

Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you’ll soon fall in love.

Mint comes in over 30 varieties.

Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.

Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.

Russia and the United States of America are less than 3 miles apart.

Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.

You can’t hum while plugging your nose.

Elephants are afraid of bees.

Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.

It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.

Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg.

There are more fake than real flamingos.

The word utopia – an ideal place – ironically comes from a Greek word meaning “no place.”

Jellyfish don’t have brains.

Jellyfish can clone themselves.

Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.

Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.

The only thing that can scratch a diamond is a diamond.

10M bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.

Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.

In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.

Kickball is referred to as “soccer-baseball” in some parts of Canada.

There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.

Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.

In Venus, it snows metal.

The average dog can understand over 150 words.

At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.

Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.

Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.

75% of the U.S.’s tart cherries come from Michigan.

Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.

Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.

In South Korea, a baby is considered 1 year old at birth.

You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.

There is a pink lake in Australia named Lake Hillier.

Antarctica is home to the largest desert in the world.

In Texas, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you ever find it.

Elephants can smell water from miles away.

You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.

An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T-Rexes.

The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

The ostrich produces a booming noise, often confused with a lion roar.

You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.

From 2010 to 2017, every tweet was archived by the Library of Congress.

Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.

A housefly hums in the key of F.

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.

The sun is actually white, but the earth’s atmosphere makes it appear yellow.

Snakes can see even with their eyes closed

Gorillas burp when they are happy.

In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.

There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.

Mangoes have noses.

Mangoes can get sunburned.

A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.

Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.

Mountain lions can whistle.

When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.

Toe wrestling is a competitive sport.

A caterpillar has more muscles than a human.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

Water can boil and freeze at the same time.

Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.

Astronauts can't burp in space.

Yawns are contagious to dogs as well as humans.

Acoustic Kitty was once a cat in training to be a spy.

The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.

Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.

An avocado is actually a large berry.

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.

The Cookie Monster's real first name is Sid.

In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.

Scotland has 421 words for snow.

Octopuses think with their tentacles.

"Jingle Bells" was originally written for Thanksgiving.

The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.

Some cats are allergic to humans.

The tiny pocket in jeans was made for pocket watches.

Two of Snapple’s founders were window washers in Brooklyn.

One of Snapple’s original founders ran a sardine and pickle store in Queens with his family.

The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.

Ants won’t cross a chalk line.

Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios.

Banana trees are actually herbs.

"Donut Towns" are towns that are completely surrounded by other towns.

Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.

You can start a fire with ice.

The fire hydrant patent was ironically destroyed in a fire.

Cotton can catch fire with enough super glue applied.

Blue flames are the hottest, reaching temps up to 3,000 degrees Celsius.

Large rain drops can fall at speeds of 20 mph.

Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.

A fire will burn faster moving uphill than downhill.

Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.

Fire's alchemy symbol is a triangle, resembling a campfire.

The alchemy symbol for water is an inverted triangle, resembling a cup or glass.

No rain fell in Iquique, Chile, for 14 years.

Denver sits at 5,280 feet elevation (1 mile above sea level).

Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.

Earth is the only known planet where fire occurs.

Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth.

Oxygen supply influences the color of a fire's flame.

Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.

About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.

Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.

The average raindrop takes 2 minutes to hit the ground.

Ocean algae produces about 75 percent of the world's oxygen.

Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.

A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.

Pressurized plane cabin air is the same average humidity of the Sahara Desert.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

The air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.

The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.

Earth's sky is purple, our eyes just see it as blue.

The fire signs are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.

A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.

The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.

The average raindrop weighs less than an eyelash.

The water signs are Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.

Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.

Kangaroos cannot jump without their tails touching the ground.

Birds can sleep with one eye open.

A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.

Elevenses is a break for light refreshments taken at 11AM in England.

A man once ate an entire airplane—it took him 2 years.

The longest alphabet has 74 letters.

A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.

In 2015, the Oxford word of the year was the tears of joy emoji.

"just setting up my twttr" was the first ever tweet.

Tomatoes are considered both fruits and vegetables—the answer depends on whom you ask.

A suction cup will not work in outer space.

Before emojis, there were emoticons, which are icons created from keyboard characters.

In the 1800s, Cadbury created the first heart-shaped chocolate box.

Early tales of leprechauns reported red clothing.

The color of a chicken's earlobe is a good indicator of the color of the eggshell it will lay.

The summer solstice marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.

The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.

Labor Day is the unofficial end of hot dog season.

Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.

An AA battery with no charge remaining will not bounce when dropped.

The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.

People don't sneeze in their sleep.

Platypuses are venomous.

Asparagus can grow up to 7 inches in a day.

There are over 2,500 apple varieties grown in the U.S.

You can tell what a narwhal has eaten each year based on the layers of its tusk.

The first flight traveled at less than 7 mph (ground speed).