fakta : umum (english version) 101 ~200

#101 About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time. #102 A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories. #103 Frowning burns more calories then smiling. #104 There are more then 30,000 diets on public record. #105 You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement. #106 You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level. #107 You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV. #108 Licking a stamp burns 10 calories. #109 Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you lose weight. #110 Frogs never drink. #111 Only male turkeys gobble. #112 At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white. #113 The fastest recorded speed of a racehorse was over 43 mph. #114 The oldest known animal was a tortoise, which lived to be 152 years old. #115 Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet. #116 The largest fish is the whale shark - It can be over 50 feet long and weigh 2 tons. #117 The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out. #118 Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans. #119 The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards. #120 The only continent without native reptiles or snakes is Antarctica. #121 The only bird that can swim and not fly is a penguin. #122 A duck can't walk without bobbing its head. #123 Beavers were once the size of bears. #124 Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time. #125 Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea. #126 A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones. #127 A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute. #128 Dragonflies have six legs but can't walk. #129 Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. (repeat of #50) #130 Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints. #131 Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to freshwater. #132 A crocodile cannot move its tongue. #133 Honeybees navigate by using the sun as a compass. #134 An ant can lift 50 times its own weight. #135 A single coffee tree produces only about a pound of coffee beans per year. #136 Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside. #137 The city of Los Angeles has three times more automobiles than people. #138 Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee. #139 Hawaii is the only state with one school district. #140 Holland is the only country with a national dog. #141 The square dance is the official dance of the state of Washington. #142 Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero degrees F or below. #143 "Q" is the only letter in the alphabet not appearing in the name of any U.S. state. #144 Texas is the only state that permits residents to cast absentee ballots from space. #145 Lake Superior is the world's largest lake. #146 The smallest county in America is New York County, better known as Manhattan. #147 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic. #148 The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in. #149 Theodore Roosevelt was the only president blind in one eye. #150 The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894. #151 The fastest served ball in tennis was clocked at 154 mph in 1963. #152 In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph. #153 The speed limit in NYC was 8 mph in 1895. #154 Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls. #155 In 1926, the first outdoor mini-golf courses were built on rooftops in NYC. #156 Swimming pools in the U.S. contain enough water to cover San Francisco. #157 The first TV soap opera debuted in 1946. #158 The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles. #159 The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger". #160 One alternative title that had been considered for NBC's hit "Friends" was "Insomnia Cafe". #161 The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo". #162 The temperature of the sun can reach up to 15 million degrees Fahrenheit. #163 The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business". #164 The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses. #165 Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise. #166 Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers. #167 You have to play ping-pong for 12 hours to lose one pound. #168 One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns. #169 The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip. #170 In 1878, the first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names. #171 The most sensitive parts of the body are the mouth and the fingertips. #172 The eye makes movements 50 times every second. #173 Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. #174 The world's biggest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico. #175 In 1634, tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland. #176 The first bike was called a hobbyhorse. #177 The first sailing boats were built in Egypt. #178 The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00. #179 The first lighthouse to use electricity was the Statue of Liberty in 1886. #180 The first VCR was made in 1956 and was the size of a piano. #181 The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899 . #182 A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon. #183 The Capitol building in Washington DC has 365 steps to represent every day of the year. #184 The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N. #185 A male kangaroo is called a Boomer. #186 A female kangaroo is called a flyer. #187 There are over 61,000 pizzerias in the U.S. #188 Antarctica is the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent on earth. #189 The Sahara Desert stretches father than the distance from California to New York. #190 Thailand means "Land of the Free". #191 Popcorn was invented by the American Indians. #192 Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every ten hours. #193 The year that read the same upside down was 1961. That won't happen again until 6009. #194 You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice. #195 Eleven of the fifty states are named after and actual person. #196 If you doubled one penny enery day for 30 days, you would have $5, 368, 709. 12. #197 The first person crossed Niagra Falls by tightrope in 1859. #198 The US is the largest country names after an actual person (Amerigo Vespucci). #199 The largest cheesecake ever-made weighed 57,508 lbs. #200 The first country to use postcards was Austria.