1. About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.
2. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven
3. A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature
4. A rabbit is not able to vomit
5. The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose
6. Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River
7. The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
8. The first American president to deliver a speech over the radio was Warren G. Harding
9. There are more than 40 million Americans that have "chronic halitosis," which is bad breath that never goes away
10. The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours
11. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph
12. The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in
13. The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark
14. One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world
15. Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA
2. Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven
3. A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature
4. A rabbit is not able to vomit
5. The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose
6. Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River
7. The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track.
8. The first American president to deliver a speech over the radio was Warren G. Harding
9. There are more than 40 million Americans that have "chronic halitosis," which is bad breath that never goes away
10. The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours
11. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph
12. The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in
13. The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark
14. One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world
15. Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA
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