Now you Know

Light travels at the rate of 186,200 miles a second.

Some leeches have three mouths, with up to a hundred teeth.

The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns.

The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years

In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'"

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

Men can read smaller print than women.

The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes

In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present

The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

The state of Utah used to be submerged under water and to this day brine shrimp can still be found in rain-filled hollows under rocks and boulders.

Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name

There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.

On average it takes a shark seven days to replace a tooth

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

The official sport for the State of Maryland is jousting.

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay

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