151. Flamingos pee on their legs to cool themselves off.
152. Cartilage is one of the few tissues that grows throughout life. Between ages 30 and 70, a nose might grow half an inch, and the ears grow about a quarter of an inch.
153. In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760.
154. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
155. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
156. The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
157. Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
158. It's illegal to spit on the sidewalk in Norfolk, Virginia.
159. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
160. The Mississippi River is the largest in the United States and is the nation's chief waterway. Its nickname is Old Man River.
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Randomlookin for facts? well, you have came to the right place! these facts will be very useful in auizes about general knowledge. enjoy! none of these are mine. please note: each part has 10 facts, so if I says 30 part, here are 300 facts!
