1. The Oregon Trial starts in Missouri, ends in Oregon, and is about 2,000 miles long.

2. Wild Pandas are found only in China.

3. Mt. Everest is the highest mountain in the world and is 29,028 feet above sea level.

4. The Himalayas are home to the top five highest mountains in the world.

5. Elvis Presley’s middle name is Aron.

6. There are five Canadian provinces and each has its own capitol.

7. A porcupine has 30,000 quills.

8. 10.9 percent of households did not have a vehicle in the year 2000.

9. Before Jerry Springer had a hit television show he was the mayor of Cincinnati.

10. There have been three U.S. presidents with the first name George.

11. Mr. Clean was on the list of sexiest men alive in 1998.

12. The world’s smallest fish is the Goby.

13. Titan is the only known moon in the solar system to have an atmosphere.

14. Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903.

15. Jodie Foster stared in Coppertone suntan lotion commercials as a three-year-old.

16. In 1964 Cadillac offered the first fully automatic air-conditioned car.

17. Nomar Garciaparra is the only player to hit three homeruns on his birthday in major league history.

18. Quasars are believed to be stars, but may actually be distant galaxies.

19. Disneyland was opened in California on July 18, 1955.

20. Audrey Hepburn’s first starring role was in Roman Holidays.

21. Whoopi Goldberg’s birth name is Caryn Johnson.

22. Giant pandas can eat up to 83 pounds of bamboo per day.

23. The first roller coaster was built in 1884.

24. The famous Louisiana Purchase cost the U.S. 11.25 million dollars for 800,000 square miles of land.

25. John H. Glenn Jr. was the oldest astronaut to go into space; he was 77.

26. The sun is composed of 99 percent hydrogen and helium.

27. United Artists was founded by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

28. Benjamin Franklin was Americas first Postmaster General.

29. Waylon Jennings was not only the narrator of the Dukes of Hazzard, but also sang the theme song.

30. The U.S. Library of Congress is the world’s largest library.

31. Laverne from Laverne and Shirley had a favorite drink of milk and Pepsi.

32. Fiji used whales teeth as money up until the late nineteenth century.

33. Andrew Jackson was the only American president to have once been a prisoner of war.

34. Mt. Washington has the world’s windiest weather. It has an average wind speed of 35.2 miles per hour with gusts up to 231 miles per hour.

35. There are 23 U.S. states on seacoasts.

36. Ronald Reagan hosted Death Valley Days before his presidency.

37.Lake Superior is the deepest of the Great Lakes.

38.Mt. Everest was named after Sir George Everest.

39. New Zealand was the first nation to grant women the right to vote.

40.The Amazon River is 4,000 miles long.

41.The Pillsbury Doughboy was first introduced in 1965.

42. Death Valley averages only 1 and a half inches of rain a year.

43. Tobacco was first gown in America.

44. The popular Casablanca is based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick’s.

45. Dragonflies can fly up to 30 miles per hour.

46. Earmuffs were invented by Chester Greenwood.

47. Ralph Bunche was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

48. New Mexico’s official state bird is the roadrunner.

49.The first flight by the Wright brothers lasted only twelve seconds.

50. The longest river in Europe is the Volga River.

 

by: Kimberlee Rabenstein