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Listing and sorting out the best general knowledge facts into multiple topics including random facts, weird facts, useless facts, trivia and more. 1. A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away. 2. American car horns beep in the tone of F. 3. Eleanor Roosevelt was editor of the magazine Babies when her husband was elected President in 1932. 4. The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence. 5. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. 6. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly. 7. On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10. 8. Johnny Carson delivered 4,531 opening monologues during his 30 years as host of The Tonight Show. 9. Dwight David Eisenhower was the first American president to hold an airplane pilot's license. 10. The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska — Kool-Aid. 11. The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three. 12. The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927. 13. Jupiter is two-and-a-half times larger than all the other planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets of our solar system combined. 14. The average spider can travel up to 1.17 miles per hour. 15. Katharine Lee Bates wrote the words to the classic American anthem "America The Beautiful" after her trip to the summit of Pikes Peak in 1893. 16. During Australia’s gold rush in 1850, only a few miners ever became rich. Instead, merchants and shopkeepers were the ones who really got rich. 17. The Jif plant in Lexington, Kentucky, is reportedly the largest peanut butter factory in the world. 18. There are 284 restrooms along the 17.5 miles of corridors in the Pentagon. 19. The oldest multicellular fossils date from over 700 million years ago. 20. X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo, under the final portrait. 21. A mosquito has 47 teeth. 22. Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds. 23. Giraffes are unable to cough. 24. Lobsters have blue blood. 25. Certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. 26. The U.S. interstate highway system requires that 1 mile in every 5 must be straight. These sections can be used as airstrips in a time of war or other emergencies. 27. Hummingbirds can't walk. 28. The moon is 27% the size of the Earth. 29. Shrimp's hearts are in their heads. 30. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. 31. One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television. 32. 50 years ago: Velcro was invented. 33. Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year. 34. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes. 35. The city name "Ottawa" is derived from an Algonquin word meaning "traders." 36. All mammals have tongues. 37. It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon. 38. A person who is "scoptophobic" has an intense fear of being seen. 39. President William Howard Taft, weighing 325 pounds at the time, had a special bathtub installed at the White House which was big enough to hold four men. 40. By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years. 41. Starring Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo was the first TV network kids show in the United States. CBS launched it in 1954. 42. A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child. 43. Focus group information compiled by CalComp revealed that 50 percent of computer users do not like using a mouse. 44. The groundhog is a member of the rodent family. 45. Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius. 46. Kittens can clock an amazing 31 mph at full speed and cover about 3 times their body length per leap. 47. Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese packaged dinners than any nationality in the world. 48. Drinking chocolate mixed with milk, wine, or beer was considered a must at fashionable social events in the seventeenth century. 49. A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time. 50. Bloomers, or ladies pantaloons got their name from suffragette Amelia Bloomer.

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