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Oh, Snapple! :The next generation
A plastic bag smelling of fruit drink can only mean one thing: I have more Snapple facts to share.  There are quite a bit so let’s get to it.  Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.  In Texas, it’s illegal to graffiti someone’s cow.  Is this really an epidemic? Are people in Texas just going around spraying graffiti on cows?
In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.  The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore slippers.  Less than 3% of the water on earth is fresh.  The spotted skunk does a handstand to warn off its enemies before it sprays its stench. 
The roadrunner chases after its prey at a blurring speed of up to 25mph.  South Carolina is home to the first tea farm in the United States.  The human jaw can generate a force up to 200 pounds on the molars.  A full moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon.
Thomas Jefferson invented the coat hanger.  Giraffe have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7. The eyes of manatees’ close in a circular motion, much like the aperture of a camera.  A chameleon shoots out its tongue to catch prey at speeds faster than a fighter jet.  A group of jellyfish is called a smack. 
A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit-five times hotter than the sun.  Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.  Vanilla is used to make chocolate.  Children have more taste buds than adults.  Pistol shrimp can make a noise loud enough to break glass.  The first penny had the motto “Mind your business.” 
99% of our solar system’s mass is the sun.  Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.  The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.  The average cat can jump 5 times high as its tail is long.  Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.  DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.  In Germany, the “shhh” sound means hurry up.  “K” was chosen to stand for a strikeout in baseball because “S” was being used to denote a sacrifice. 
John Adams was the only President to be defeated by his /vice President, Thomas Jefferson.  Theodore Roosevelt had a pet bear while in office.  The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was decided by a coin toss.  The name that lost was Boston.  The patent for the fire hydrant was destroyed in a fire.  There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle.  Even though it is nearly twice as far away from the Sun as Mercury, Venus is by far the hottest planet. 
Every hour more than one billion cells in the body must be replaced.  -40 degrees Fahrenheit is the same temperature as -40 degrees Celsius.  Honeybees have hair on their eyes.  Napoleon Bonaparte was actually not short.  At 5”7”, he was average height for his time.  Aren’t Snapple facts, fun?