| # | LIT | RDT | RIT | RWT | FACT
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| 21 | | | | 1 | Almonds are members of the peach family.
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| 27 | | | | 1 | A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
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| 54 | | | | 1 | The average smell weighs 760 nanograms.
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| 55 | | | | 1 | A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
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| 98 | | 1 | | | When the moon is directly overhead you weigh slightly less.
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| 103 | | 1 | | | Frowning burns more calories than smilling.
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| 110 | 1 | | | | Frogs never drink.
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| 111 | 1 | | | | Only male turkeys gobble.
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| 119 | | | 1 | | The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
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| 121 | | | | 1 | The only bird that can swim but not fly is the penguin.
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| 124 | 1 | | | | Seals sleep only one and a half minutes at a time.
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| 125 | 1 | | | | Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
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| 125 | | | 1 | | Pigeons have been trained by the U.S. Coast Guard to spot people lost at sea.
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| 127 | 1 | | | | A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
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| 128 | 1 | | | | Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
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| 134 | 1 | | | | An ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
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| 141 | 2 | | | | The square dance is the offcial dance of the state of Washington
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| 148 | 1 | | | | The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.
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| 150 | 1 | | | 1 | The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
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| 152 | 1 | | | | In 1985, the fastest bicyclist was clocked at 154 mph.
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| 161 | 1 | | | | The first TV network kids show in the U.S. was "Captain Kangaroo."
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| 162 | 1 | | | | The temp. of the sun can reach 15 million degrees F.
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| 164 | 1 | | | | The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horse.
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| 166 | 1 | | | | Before mercury, brandy was used to fill thermometers.
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| 177 | 1 | | | | The first sailing boats where built in Egypt.
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| 181 | 1 | | | | The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899.
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| 191 | | | | 1 | Popcorn was invented by the American Indians.
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| 202 | 1 | | | | The mouth of the Statue of Liberty is 3 feet wide.
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| 243 | 1 | | 1 | | If you put all the streets in New York City in a straight line, they would stretch to Japan.
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| 304 | | | 1 | | In 1900, 1/3 of all automobiles in New Yourk City were powered by electricity.
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| 329 | 1 | | | | The world's first escalator was built in Coney Island NY, in 1896.
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| 330 | 1 | | | | The top of the Empire State Building was originaly built as a place to anchor blimps.
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| 344 | | | | 1 | Leonardo da Vinci discovered that a tree's rings reveal its age.
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| 388 | 2 | | | | The first person in the U.S. arrested for speeding was a NYC cab driver.
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