FUN FACTS

Paper bags aren't any better for the environment than plastic ones.

-submitted by Taylor Schumann

There is an island in the Bahamas that's inhabited only by swimming pigs.

-submitted by Taylor Schumann

McDonalds once made bubble gum flavored broccoli.

-submitted by Kamryn Tyrrell

Maine is the only state in the U.S. that has a one syllable name.

-submitted by Kamryn Tyrrell

Maine is the largest New England State. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut can fit inside it.

-Submitted by Kendall Hanson

The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.

-Lilliana Ainsworth

You cannot snore and dream at the same time.

-Lilliana Ainsworth

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

- Nick Kelley

In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

- Nick Kelley

These are the legs of a man after doing 16 stages of Tour De France, a bicycle race through France.

-Submitted by Kendall

It is impossible to lick your own elbow

Submitted by novie ivey

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man

Submitted by novie ivey

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out

Submitted by novie ivey

Water covers 70% of Earth

Submitted by novie ivey

Pigs can’t look up into the sky – it’s physically impossible.

Submitted by novie ivey

The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Submitted by novie ivey

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

-submitted by Mrs. Shaw

A snail can sleep for three years.

-submitted by Mrs. Shaw

The fingerprints of a koala are so similar to humans that they have been confused at crime scenes.

-submitted by Mrs. Shaw

Slugs have four noses.

-submitted by Mrs. Shaw

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

-submitted by Mrs. Shaw