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501. Personal letters make up only 5% of the mail delivered by the U.S postal Service.

502. Pollsters say that 40% of dog and cat owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.

503. Portion of Harvard students who graduate with honors: 4/5

504. Statistically the safest age of life is 10 years old.

505. Summer is statistically the most hazardous season.

506. Sweden has the least number of murders annually.

507. Ten percent of frequent fliers say they never check their luggage when flying.

508. The average adult spends about 12 minutes in the shower.

509. The average American moves 12 times in a lifetime.

510. The average four year-old child asks over 400 questions a day.

511. The average number of passengers airborne over the US each hour is 61,000.

512. The average person keeps old magazines for 29 weeks before they throw them out.

513. The average person looks at 8 houses before actually buying one.

514. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.

515. The average person over fifty will have spent one year looking for lost items.

13. The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.

14. The average person spends about two years on the phone in a lifetime.

15. The average person takes 9,000 steps a day.

16. The average person will spend 2 weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

17. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

18. The chance of contracting an infection during a hospital stay in the USA is 1 in 15.

19. The murder rate in the United States is 200 times greater than in Japan. In Japan no private citizen can buy a handgun legally.

20. The number in minutes of telephone calling in an average business day is 9,500,000,000.

21. The percent of men who wash their hands after using a restroom is 55%.

22. The percent of women who wash their hands after using a restroom is 80%.

23. There are over 6,000 fatal burns a year in the U.S.

24. There are three times as many households in the United States without telephones as there are without television sets.

25. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

26. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

27. Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.

28. Twelve babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.

29. Two out of five husbands tell their wife daily that they love them.

30. Two planes landing daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.

31. You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

32. Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.

33. A baby Platypus remains blind after birth for 11 weeks.

34. A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

35. A blind chameleon still changes colors to match his environment.

36. A camel's backbone is just as straight as a horse's.

37. A castrated male reindeer is called a bull.

38. A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

39. A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

40. A deer cannot eat hay.

41. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

42. A dragonfly has a life-span of 4-7 weeks. (Source: Hinesdragonfly.org)

43. A duck has three eyelids.

44. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

45. A geep is a cross between a goat and a sheep.

46. A group of finches is called a Charm.

47. A group of frogs is called an army.

48. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

49. A group of goats is called a Trip.

50. A group of hares is called a Husk.

51. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

52. A group of owls is called a parliament.

53. A group of rhinos are called a crash.

54. A group of toads is called a knot.

55. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

56. A jack rabbit can jump as high as 15 feet.

57. A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.

58. A bee has four wings.

59. A beetle in Africa called the Goliath Beetle is as big as your fist.

60. A community of ants is called a colony.

61. A dragonfly's penis is shovel-shaped at the end, to scoop a rival male's sperm out of the female it's impregnating.

62. A myrmecologist studies ants.

63. A swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska on July 20-30, 1874 covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. The swarm must have contained at least 12.5 trillion insects, weighing about 27.5 million tons.

64. A typical Mayfly only lives one day.

65. An ant's sense of smell is as good as a dog's

66. Ants can live up to 16 years.

67. Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideward, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.

68. Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

69. Bees are fully grown when they are born.

70. Bees do not have ears.

71. Bees have to fly approximately 175,000 kilometers to make one kilogram of honey.

72. Crickets hear through their knees.

73. Even though cockroaches have been on the Earth for 250,000,000 they have not changed at all.

74. Flies mate during the 1st 5 days of life.

75. For narrating a documentary, the museum of Natural History named a spider, Calponia Harrisonfordi, after actor Harrison Ford.

76. Hard rock music makes termites chew through wood twice their usual speed.

77. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.

78. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

79. If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of flies would be the size of the Earth!

80. In his book, "The Insects," naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that females are born pregnant.

81. In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter.

82. Insects make up two thirds of known species.

83. 78% of cats never travel with their owner.

84. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

85. A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.

86. A cat's whiskers are called vibrissae.

87. A house cat has 18 claws.

88. A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf only in the ear closest to the blue eye. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.

89. Black cats are considered lucky in England.

90. Cat whiskers can detect movements 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.

91. Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

92. Cats cannot taste sweets.

93. Cats have AB blood groups just like people.

94. Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.

95. Cats have two sets of vocal chords.

96. Cats, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high possibility of having six toes.

97. In 1888, as estimated 300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for fertilizer.

98. In 1993, there were an estimated 64 million cats in the United States.

99. In four years, one female cat could be responsible for the birth of 20,736 cats.

100. In the Middle Ages, during the festival of Saint John, cats were burned alive in town squares.

101. Italian engineers were rebuilding the Kremlin in Moscow while Columbus was seeking new worlds to the west.

102. Most cats have no eyelashes.

103. Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.

104. Spot, Data's cat on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was played by six different cats.

105. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat falling of the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

106. The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.

107. The average house cat weighs in at 11 pounds.

108. A male chimpanzee is 5 times hornier than the average human male.

109. A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.

110. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

111. A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.

112. A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.

113. A scallop has a total of 35 eyes which are all blue.

114. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.

115. A shrimp has more than a hundred pair of chromosomes in each cell nucleus.