• The highest scoring word in Scrabble is oxyphenbutazone, with a potential total of 1,178 points. 
• William Wrigley was in the baking powder business and gave a free pack of his gum with each box of his product. When he discovered that people were buying it just to get the gum, he decided to to switch businesses.
• The seven rays on the crown of the Statue of Liberty represent the seven continents, each measures up to 9 feet in length and weighs as much as 150 pounds. 
• There are 182 places in the U.S. that have the word "Christmas" in their names.
• The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work is Alaska.
• The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
• A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair. 
• Money is made of woven linen, not paper. 
• Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
• Dark green vegetables include more vitamin C than light green color vegetables.
• An orange's vitamin C content helps fight back assaults from viruses and germs, cold and fatigue. 
• In the springtime, a wild male turkey's head can turn a brillant red, white, or blue in a matter of moments. 
• Squid is the number one pizza topping in Japan. 
• Yahoo! is an aconym which stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". 
• A squirrel can remember the hiding places of up to 10,000 nuts. 
• A flea expert is  a pullicologist.
• Baboons can not throw overhand. 
• Beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see underwater with their eyes shut. 
• According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Americans eat on average of 3.4 pounds of fresh strawberries every year.
• There is a museum in Belgium dedicated to strawberries.
• Native Americans ate strawberries long before European settlers arrived. 
• Ant's do not sleep.
• Most bees buzz in the key of A, but when tired they buzz in the key of E. 
• If you take your age and multiply it by 7, then multiply the number by 1,443 the answer repeats your age 3 times. 
• The human tooth has approximately 50 miles of canals in it.
• You can use potato chips to start a campfire.
• Smokey Bear has his own zip code - 20252.
• In the 1890's Henry B. Plant orginally held what was to become the Florida State Fair to promote his Tampa Bay Hotel.
• Twitter's bird logo is named Larry, after Boston Celtics Hall of Famer, Larry Bird.
• When Oreo cookies were first made, they were mounded-shaped. The name came from the Greek word "oreo" which means "hill".
• It cost $1 for admission to Disneyland when it opened in 1955. 
• The first minimum wage, instituted  in the United States in 1938, was 25 cents per hour.
• Home plate in baseball was square until 1900, when it was made five-sided to help umpires in calling balls and strikes.
• Edgar Allen Poe often wrote his works with his cat seated on his shoulder. 
• Slugs have four noses.
• Beef fat, called tallow, is an ingredient in soaps, cosmetics, candles, shortenings, and chewing gum.
• An acre of land is about the same size as a football field.
• Raising cattle is the single largest segment of American agriculture.
• One pound of wool can make 10 miles of yarn.
• Sea otters hold each other's paws when they sleep so they don't drift apart.
• The average supermarket carrot travels 2,000 miles from field to table. USDA surveys suggest that most farmer's market produce travels less than 50 miles to market. 
• The USDA estimates that more than one million customer's visit farmer's markets each week.
• The first time that fairgoers ate hot dogs and ice cream as they walked along the midway was during the Saint Louis World's Fair in 1904, thus coining these two foods as the world's first "fast foods."
• Florida ranks 2nd in US production of fresh vegetables and provides 80% of the fresh vegetables consumed in the US during January, February, and March each year.
• Florida ranks 4th in the Southeast and 12th nationally in the production of beef calves.
• Cattle were first introduced to North America in Florida in 1521 by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon.
• The average farm size in Florida is 195 acres. 
• Florida has 47,500 farms consisting of 9.25 million acres. 
• If all the boxes of Florida tomatoes shipped in a crop year were laid end to end, they would stretch from Pensacola round-trip to Beijing, China - over 58 million boxes! 
• The state flower of Florida is the orange blossom.
• The tortoise can live to be 140 years old.
• Kool-Aid was once marketed as Fruit Snack.
• Nolan Bushnell founded Atari and Chuck E. Cheese. 
• The mango is the most popular fruit on Earth, consumed worldwide by a factor of three to one over bananas and ten to one over apples. 
• There are about 9 chickens for every human being in the world. 

Taken from In the Field Magazine