ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
18 |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think fast, I talk fast an... |
191 |
3 |
0.7854 |
21 |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place... |
192 |
2 |
0.9219 |
22 |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not the quickest of cat... |
149 |
2 |
1.0246 |
24 |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the greedy, and those who ... |
234 |
1 |
0.8732 |
26 |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God ... |
311 |
1 |
0.7547 |
27 |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Just as I'm about to ki... |
174 |
2 |
0.7990 |
31 |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bullets rape the night... |
197 |
2 |
1.0836 |
40 |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken too many disco bisc... |
174 |
2 |
0.8993 |
41 |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every game and con there's al... |
201 |
1 |
0.9897 |
43 |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. ... |
242 |
1 |
0.9442 |
48 |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim,... |
190 |
2 |
0.8943 |
54 |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think of so many cooler thi... |
310 |
2 |
0.9742 |
60 |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time... |
184 |
1 |
1.1568 |
62 |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it ... |
293 |
2 |
0.9268 |
63 |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from mind forms, and it ... |
133 |
1 |
0.7587 |
65 |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and deep beneath the rollin... |
218 |
2 |
0.8706 |
70 |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in... |
176 |
2 |
0.9102 |
74 |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your clothes were stolen.... |
173 |
2 |
0.9429 |
77 |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted to hear, or did you t... |
156 |
1 |
0.9584 |
78 |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man's attitude goes some... |
226 |
1 |
0.8336 |
82 |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Stephen, if you don't l... |
305 |
1 |
0.8577 |
85 |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent in... |
366 |
1 |
1.1270 |
87 |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of where he grips it! It... |
296 |
1 |
1.0642 |
103 |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ... |
289 |
1 |
1.1372 |
104 |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in which its electrons a... |
211 |
1 |
0.8483 |
107 |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told Bill that if ... |
150 |
7 |
1.0044 |
109 |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I lo... |
229 |
2 |
1.0219 |
118 |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially... |
335 |
1 |
1.0206 |
119 |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of... |
176 |
4 |
0.9473 |
136 |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage our own work, but ho... |
237 |
1 |
0.9220 |
137 |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, l... |
201 |
1 |
0.9831 |
143 |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-day spam, because spa... |
223 |
1 |
1.2077 |
150 |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the coal mine - regions ... |
197 |
2 |
0.6985 |
154 |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmosphere is being thickened... |
296 |
2 |
1.0344 |
159 |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you ... |
217 |
1 |
0.7161 |
169 |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought mayb... |
209 |
4 |
0.9552 |
177 |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is you... |
136 |
2 |
0.8119 |
178 |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone, that everyone was ... |
273 |
2 |
0.9916 |
182 |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of where I was, when I ... |
266 |
2 |
0.8960 |
186 |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thousand in all, spread a... |
135 |
4 |
0.7843 |
194 |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of nece... |
273 |
1 |
0.9460 |
195 |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of nece... |
145 |
1 |
0.8007 |
196 |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a theater, I either f... |
264 |
2 |
0.8862 |
208 |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go... |
214 |
2 |
0.9302 |
214 |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first time you've ever com... |
246 |
1 |
1.0269 |
217 |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would... |
130 |
4 |
1.0215 |
220 |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went ... |
278 |
1 |
1.0783 |
225 |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he... |
158 |
4 |
1.2352 |
229 |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images we store in the memor... |
239 |
4 |
1.1180 |
235 |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to apply it well. Th... |
163 |
1 |
1.2444 |
236 |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater progress, provided they... |
150 |
5 |
0.9731 |
238 |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in their work;... |
294 |
1 |
1.3355 |
244 |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an invaluable skill. It'... |
148 |
4 |
0.7277 |
246 |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. Bad posture is the r... |
212 |
4 |
0.8362 |
248 |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons and semicolons alway... |
109 |
2 |
0.7918 |
250 |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, meaning "work," and the... |
212 |
1 |
0.9852 |
251 |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, just as a company needs... |
127 |
2 |
1.0378 |
254 |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to type without looking... |
97 |
1 |
1.1026 |
259 |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fast as you can think s... |
121 |
1 |
0.3858 |
265 |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretch your arms above yo... |
183 |
7 |
1.0990 |
267 |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch from top to bottom. You... |
142 |
1 |
0.7132 |
274 |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the original continues to th... |
170 |
1 |
0.8750 |
276 |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competit... |
239 |
1 |
0.9451 |
286 |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly d... |
236 |
2 |
1.1280 |
289 |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced by a few cues and que... |
115 |
1 |
0.7707 |
296 |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player's regime of compete... |
199 |
1 |
1.0538 |
301 |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or... |
205 |
4 |
0.9755 |
309 |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single gree... |
149 |
2 |
0.7904 |
311 |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to s... |
237 |
1 |
1.5068 |
317 |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what... |
308 |
1 |
0.9609 |
318 |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional writes three times what... |
209 |
1 |
1.0299 |
319 |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you first find the cliche y... |
129 |
8 |
1.1227 |
325 |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things and events are object... |
163 |
1 |
0.8330 |
328 |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - entails relocating to on... |
253 |
1 |
1.0227 |
335 |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ult... |
270 |
2 |
0.9081 |
338 |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the ... |
131 |
4 |
0.9762 |
339 |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sentence or a concept t... |
110 |
2 |
0.7130 |
341 |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I must be traveling o... |
134 |
3 |
0.8615 |
344 |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories, where ... |
259 |
1 |
0.9009 |
347 |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape fr... |
137 |
5 |
0.8430 |
353 |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was born on the road, w... |
132 |
1 |
1.2360 |
357 |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. Wandering, I am lost ... |
124 |
1 |
0.9881 |
358 |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no baggage, you just ge... |
189 |
2 |
0.7604 |
359 |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause for love that I can'... |
171 |
3 |
1.0474 |
363 |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue. It's no... |
164 |
2 |
0.9892 |
365 |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a bridge, where the bri... |
165 |
1 |
1.0611 |
366 |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as the music's energy. In... |
134 |
3 |
0.7853 |
368 |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A word like "fire" is ... |
262 |
1 |
0.9742 |
372 |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but never finished. He'd bee... |
199 |
1 |
0.7969 |
375 |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be most helpful. Check ou... |
200 |
1 |
1.0337 |
376 |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you are wearing the correc... |
195 |
1 |
0.8610 |
378 |
There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a fixed price.... |
155 |
2 |
1.0728 |
379 |
There are still some places where you can get all you can eat for a fixed price.... |
283 |
2 |
1.0245 |
380 |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib from him and made a chi... |
226 |
1 |
1.1783 |
383 |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic sensitivity, Ninja c... |
149 |
1 |
0.8857 |
385 |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives by accepting the judg... |
145 |
2 |
0.9137 |
388 |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a personal motive for reveng... |
325 |
1 |
1.0603 |
393 |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength of his commonsense ... |
181 |
4 |
0.8487 |
395 |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the winter and then laying... |
188 |
1 |
1.0911 |
399 |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguing interlude, we migh... |
193 |
1 |
0.9081 |
405 |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can be conceived and th... |
152 |
1 |
0.8189 |
407 |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and find its optimum soluti... |
121 |
5 |
0.7186 |
420 |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as pa... |
179 |
4 |
0.9805 |
424 |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated quickly in a flat ca... |
142 |
1 |
0.9393 |
427 |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-content material with a ... |
257 |
4 |
0.8806 |
429 |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, is the obvious source... |
217 |
3 |
0.8384 |
431 |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we knew the reflectanc... |
157 |
1 |
0.8883 |
432 |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the surface might be of s... |
155 |
2 |
1.1398 |
441 |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope. His soil is sti... |
193 |
3 |
0.8481 |
443 |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because it is pious, or is i... |
126 |
3 |
0.9345 |
449 |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while because she wouldn't... |
373 |
1 |
0.9157 |
450 |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kidding. Sometimes I think... |
239 |
1 |
0.8601 |
452 |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see if you're cowardly. B... |
243 |
4 |
1.0077 |
455 |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a classic, been nicked o... |
277 |
1 |
0.5689 |
463 |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous orbit is connected by... |
326 |
2 |
0.8743 |
464 |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was written and the first ... |
131 |
2 |
0.9820 |
468 |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." Reflecti... |
230 |
1 |
0.8613 |
470 |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of the planet, taking w... |
188 |
4 |
1.0615 |
473 |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point in human civilizati... |
265 |
1 |
1.0056 |
477 |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed documents, not only fr... |
182 |
2 |
0.8624 |
483 |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves under the necessity... |
195 |
4 |
0.9368 |
485 |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very closely approaches the id... |
276 |
2 |
0.9640 |
494 |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous st... |
365 |
1 |
0.8722 |
495 |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous st... |
202 |
1 |
0.6705 |
500 |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on the ... |
269 |
1 |
0.9933 |
504 |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled your eyes as the wor... |
172 |
2 |
0.8684 |
507 |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't... |
174 |
3 |
0.9239 |
510 |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord, ... |
124 |
3 |
1.0084 |
517 |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary falls from grace. Hear... |
143 |
3 |
0.9302 |
520 |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from this hour. So long? The... |
123 |
3 |
0.9742 |
521 |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who thought he was a jerk was ... |
227 |
2 |
0.8559 |
524 |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.9 percent of all the... |
153 |
1 |
1.1287 |
527 |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" much beyond your sixth... |
185 |
2 |
0.7896 |
529 |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubbles. Carbon dioxide ga... |
177 |
1 |
0.6864 |
534 |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
62 |
2 |
0.8749 |
536 |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the vict... |
105 |
6 |
1.2131 |
538 |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid m... |
186 |
1 |
0.8781 |
540 |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from moment to moment; it wil... |
180 |
1 |
1.1200 |
541 |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really used it after that. I... |
206 |
1 |
0.8215 |
550 |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your heart to be near. An... |
166 |
3 |
1.0284 |
553 |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. An... |
159 |
1 |
0.9064 |
554 |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still in circulation, the... |
176 |
1 |
0.9191 |
555 |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight lifts. They stay bel... |
275 |
2 |
1.1911 |
557 |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, and he picked up the ... |
172 |
2 |
1.0979 |
559 |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some umbrellas appeared on... |
203 |
1 |
0.9384 |
562 |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts the most. I dream I... |
136 |
2 |
1.1329 |
564 |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the price of a memory is... |
116 |
2 |
0.8766 |
572 |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those two decades, but the... |
118 |
2 |
0.7981 |
575 |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that years of evidence p... |
229 |
2 |
1.0372 |
579 |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot day and into San Franc... |
134 |
1 |
0.9190 |
581 |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breaking apart like I'm mad... |
100 |
2 |
1.1623 |
583 |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through the roof of your mo... |
217 |
2 |
1.0605 |
587 |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. We make a little hist... |
118 |
4 |
1.0335 |
590 |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devil in it yet folks ne... |
111 |
3 |
1.1759 |
593 |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now than he... |
142 |
4 |
0.8827 |
598 |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe in some kind of pat... |
183 |
2 |
0.9185 |
600 |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darling, that you do. But... |
158 |
1 |
0.7972 |
602 |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if th... |
165 |
2 |
0.8005 |
610 |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of immigration and foo... |
167 |
3 |
0.8552 |
613 |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow leaves falling (but f... |
207 |
3 |
0.9558 |
617 |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce section, or a half doze... |
163 |
1 |
0.9870 |
619 |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from a steer born in Sout... |
145 |
2 |
0.8298 |
621 |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to follow the intricate ... |
188 |
5 |
0.9245 |
631 |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food.... |
185 |
1 |
1.1436 |
1970018 |
A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, ... |
255 |
2 |
0.9688 |
1970149 |
Volume refers to the number of cubic units of space that an object takes up. |
76 |
2 |
1.1049 |
1970153 |
A constant is a quantity assumed to be unchanged. |
49 |
1 |
0.8512 |
1970154 |
Correlation is the trend in a set of data. A positive correlation tends to grow ... |
215 |
2 |
0.9319 |
1970168 |
The Asthenosphere is the molten rock layer within the upper mantle containing co... |
98 |
6 |
0.9964 |
1970169 |
Convection refers to the heat transfer within a fluid. |
54 |
9 |
0.9725 |
1970170 |
Deformation refers to the change in shape of the surface of the Earth. |
70 |
5 |
1.2045 |
1970171 |
Deposition refers to sediments laid down in a new place by erosion. |
67 |
3 |
0.8827 |
1970172 |
An eclipse is sunlight blocked by a celestial body. |
51 |
6 |
0.9225 |
1970173 |
Elevation refers to the height above sea level. |
47 |
7 |
1.2258 |
1970174 |
Erosion is the movement of sediment by wind, water, ice or gravity. |
67 |
7 |
1.1571 |
1970175 |
Geologic time scale refers to the timeline of the geologic history of the Earth ... |
113 |
7 |
1.0410 |
1970176 |
Gravity refers to the natural force of attraction related to the mass of an obje... |
83 |
4 |
1.0478 |
1970177 |
The lithosphere is the rocky crust and top part of mantle. |
58 |
1 |
0.5924 |
1970178 |
Moon phases refers to the change in the amount of reflected moon light visible f... |
90 |
5 |
1.0923 |
1970179 |
Plate tectonics refers to the theory that explains the formation and movement of... |
118 |
5 |
0.9450 |
1970180 |
Relief refers to the change in elevation within an area from low to high. |
73 |
3 |
1.2129 |
1970181 |
Revolution refers to the Earth moving around the sun. |
53 |
9 |
1.0702 |
1970182 |
Rock cycle refers to the processes that slowly change rocks from one kind to ano... |
85 |
2 |
1.1878 |
1970183 |
Rotation refers to the Earth spinning on its axis. |
50 |
4 |
0.9861 |
1970184 |
Sea floor spreading is the process that adds new rock to the ocean floor where l... |
110 |
5 |
0.9938 |
1970185 |
Subduction refers to a tectonic plate moving below another tectonic plate. |
74 |
3 |
0.9636 |
1970186 |
Tides refers to the surface of the ocean rising and falling. |
60 |
6 |
1.4533 |
1970187 |
Topography is the shape of the land. |
36 |
1 |
1.1387 |
1970189 |
An autotroph is an organism that makes its own food. |
52 |
1 |
0.4771 |
1970190 |
Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in living things. |
68 |
3 |
0.9208 |
1970192 |
Classification is the process of grouping things based on their similarities. |
77 |
5 |
0.8817 |
1970193 |
Diffusion is the process by which molecules move from an area of high concentrat... |
118 |
4 |
1.1273 |
1970194 |
DNA refers to the genetic material that carries information about an organism an... |
117 |
2 |
1.1170 |
1970195 |
Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each other and their env... |
90 |
8 |
0.8569 |
1970196 |
Evolution is the gradual change in a species over time. |
55 |
6 |
0.9360 |
1970197 |
Genes refer to a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait. |
80 |
2 |
0.7540 |
1970198 |
Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. |
60 |
1 |
0.8636 |
1970199 |
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot make its own food. |
59 |
5 |
0.9137 |
1970200 |
Homeostasis refers to the maintenance of stable internal conditions. |
68 |
1 |
0.7800 |
1970201 |
Natural selection is the process by which individuals that are better adapted to... |
179 |
1 |
1.1322 |
1970202 |
Organ systems refers to a group of organs that work together to perform a major ... |
101 |
3 |
1.0927 |
1970203 |
Osmosis refers to the diffusion of water molecules through selectively permeable... |
90 |
1 |
1.2957 |
1970204 |
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and some other organisms capture t... |
126 |
3 |
1.1892 |
1970205 |
A protist is a eukaryotic organism that cannot be classified as an animal, plant... |
92 |
1 |
0.7452 |
1970206 |
Reproduction is the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. |
79 |
9 |
1.0243 |
1970207 |
Respiration refers to the process by which cells break down simple food molecule... |
117 |
6 |
0.8980 |
1970208 |
The word species refers to a group of similar organisms that can mate with each ... |
116 |
1 |
1.1361 |
1970209 |
Acceleration is the act of speeding up, slowing down or changing direction in a ... |
94 |
4 |
0.8262 |
1970210 |
Atoms are the smallest particle of an element that has all the properties of the... |
89 |
5 |
1.2035 |
1970211 |
A chemical change is a change in a substance that alters its chemical compositio... |
117 |
2 |
0.9952 |
1970212 |
A closed system is a system that does not allow any exchange of matter with its ... |
92 |
4 |
0.9720 |
1970213 |
Compounds are two or more elements chemically combined to form a new substance. |
79 |
6 |
1.1394 |
1970214 |
The word conservation refers to saving or preserving so that total amount of mat... |
110 |
1 |
1.0815 |
1970215 |
Density refers to how tightly or loosely particles are packed together in a give... |
91 |
4 |
1.1788 |
1970216 |
An element is a substance made up of only one kind of atom that cannot be broken... |
98 |
5 |
0.9493 |
1970217 |
The word energy refers to the ability to do work. |
49 |
3 |
0.8878 |
1970218 |
The word force in science refers to a push or a pull that causes or prevents mot... |
84 |
5 |
1.0541 |
1970219 |
Gravity is a force that tries to pull two objects toward each other. |
68 |
9 |
0.8368 |
1970220 |
Heat refers to the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another due to ... |
114 |
1 |
0.7098 |
1970221 |
Mass is the amount of stuff in an object. |
41 |
5 |
0.8937 |
1970222 |
The word matter in science refers to something that has mass and volume. |
72 |
8 |
1.1927 |
1970224 |
Motion refers to the change of position for an object. |
54 |
5 |
1.0932 |
1970225 |
In chemistry the word "phases" refers to the states in which matter can exist, u... |
127 |
5 |
0.7768 |
1970226 |
Physical change refers to a change in a substance that only changes its physical... |
199 |
1 |
0.8745 |
1970227 |
Potential energy is stored energy in an object because of its position or locati... |
83 |
2 |
0.9377 |
1970230 |
Temperature refers to the average kinetic energy (energy due to motion) of parti... |
98 |
4 |
1.0552 |
1970328 |
Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," conv... |
178 |
1 |
0.9068 |
1970330 |
The kitchen table was set for breakfast and the room smelled of coffee, bacon, d... |
122 |
2 |
1.2792 |
1970331 |
There, inside, looking up at her, was the newborn pig. It was a white one. |
74 |
3 |
1.0945 |
1970332 |
The morning light shone through its ears, turning them pink. |
60 |
3 |
1.0001 |
1970333 |
Fern couldn't take her eyes off the tiny pig. "Oh," she whispered, "Oh, look at ... |
110 |
2 |
0.5668 |
1970334 |
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky c... |
111 |
4 |
0.9066 |
1970335 |
He wins the trip of a lifetime - a magical tour around Mr. Wonka's mysterious ch... |
96 |
2 |
0.7453 |
1970336 |
He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and scre... |
173 |
2 |
1.2228 |
1970338 |
And in this way, Charlie would make his ten-cent bar of chocolate last him for m... |
97 |
2 |
0.9076 |
1970339 |
But I haven't yet told you about the one awful thing that tortured little Charli... |
131 |
3 |
0.9281 |
1970340 |
In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in which Charlie lived, t... |
119 |
1 |
0.7978 |
1970358 |
First of all, let me get something straight: this is a JOURNAL, not a diary. |
76 |
5 |
0.7763 |
1970359 |
All I need is for some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wr... |
89 |
7 |
1.0271 |
1970361 |
So this book is gonna come in handy. |
36 |
3 |
0.9961 |
1970362 |
Like I said, I'll be famous one day, but right now I'm stuck in middle school wi... |
101 |
3 |
0.9734 |
1970363 |
Let me just say for the record that I think middle school is about the dumbest i... |
98 |
3 |
1.0979 |
1970364 |
You got kids like me who haven't hit their growth spurt yet mixed in with gorill... |
113 |
2 |
0.8455 |
1970365 |
If it was up to me, grade levels would be based on height, not age. |
67 |
10 |
1.1142 |
1970366 |
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. |
69 |
3 |
1.0145 |
1970367 |
It used to be a whole lot simpler back in elementary school. |
60 |
5 |
0.9495 |
1970368 |
Now it's about the kind of clothes you wear or how rich you are or if you have a... |
103 |
4 |
1.0019 |
1970371 |
At night when Fred goes back to bed, he deftly plucks it off his head. His mothe... |
220 |
1 |
0.9566 |
1970393 |
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. |
55 |
6 |
1.1290 |
1970394 |
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. |
45 |
5 |
0.9702 |
1970395 |
A person's a person, no matter how small. |
41 |
3 |
1.1411 |
1970396 |
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred ... |
88 |
9 |
0.8606 |
1970397 |
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good. |
66 |
7 |
1.3001 |
1970398 |
Only you can control your future. |
33 |
6 |
0.9362 |
1970399 |
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! |
80 |
2 |
1.2037 |
1970400 |
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have ... |
91 |
2 |
0.8916 |
1970401 |
You will miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. |
57 |
3 |
1.1363 |
1970402 |
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, "Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!" |
72 |
2 |
0.5358 |
1970403 |
I am glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song. |
66 |
2 |
1.1261 |
1970404 |
It came without ribbons. |
24 |
3 |
1.0572 |
1970405 |
It came without tags. |
21 |
10 |
1.2923 |
1970406 |
It came without packages, boxes or bags. |
40 |
2 |
0.9244 |
1970407 |
There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go! |
80 |
1 |
0.6111 |
1970408 |
Think and wonder, wonder and think. |
35 |
6 |
1.1654 |
1970409 |
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? |
43 |
1 |
1.0266 |
1970410 |
This mess is too big and too deep and to tall. We can't clean it up! We can't cl... |
97 |
6 |
1.0762 |
1970411 |
This mess is too big and too deep and to tall. |
46 |
5 |
1.0706 |
1970412 |
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, al... |
102 |
2 |
0.8339 |
1970413 |
Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind! |
53 |
8 |
1.1231 |
1970414 |
Just tell yourself, Duckie, your really quite lucky. |
52 |
3 |
0.9003 |
1970415 |
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. |
48 |
6 |
0.9132 |
1970416 |
You will be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and... |
101 |
4 |
1.0989 |
1970417 |
It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air. |
46 |
3 |
0.9246 |
1970418 |
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that... |
90 |
8 |
1.0863 |
1970419 |
This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. |
72 |
3 |
1.0288 |
1970420 |
One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish! |
37 |
4 |
0.8040 |
1970421 |
I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them sam I am. |
61 |
11 |
1.0093 |
1970422 |
For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests. |
50 |
1 |
0.8978 |
1970423 |
I like green eggs and ham! I like them Sam I Am! |
48 |
3 |
0.8846 |
1970424 |
Not here not there not anywhere! |
32 |
2 |
1.3190 |
1970425 |
And what would you do if you met a jibboo? |
42 |
2 |
1.3079 |
1970426 |
I box in yellow Gox box socks. |
30 |
2 |
0.8273 |
1970427 |
Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today. |
63 |
4 |
0.8269 |
1970428 |
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. |
44 |
6 |
1.1845 |
1970429 |
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, it is not going to get better. ... |
95 |
10 |
1.1024 |
1970431 |
The more that you read, the more things you will know. |
54 |
5 |
1.0805 |
1970432 |
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. |
51 |
5 |
0.9539 |
1970433 |
You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant? |
38 |
3 |
0.6736 |
1970434 |
Fun is good. |
12 |
7 |
1.1918 |
1970435 |
You are in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. |
54 |
2 |
1.3864 |
1970436 |
I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too... |
101 |
4 |
1.0787 |
1970437 |
And to think that I saw it go down on Eight Mile. |
49 |
2 |
1.0805 |
1970438 |
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and th... |
106 |
8 |
1.0783 |
1970439 |
Then we saw him step in on the mat. |
35 |
1 |
1.0212 |
1970440 |
And Sally and I did not know what to say. |
41 |
7 |
1.1377 |
1970441 |
Because Horton was faithful, he sat and he sat! |
47 |
2 |
0.8620 |
1970442 |
Do you like green eggs and ham? |
31 |
3 |
1.0724 |
1970443 |
I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. |
68 |
4 |
1.1555 |
1970444 |
What a lot of funny things go by. |
33 |
7 |
1.2745 |
1970445 |
I am Yertle the Turtle! |
23 |
4 |
0.8847 |
1970446 |
We have got to make noises in greater amounts! |
46 |
5 |
0.7155 |
1970447 |
But I had to grow bigger, so bigger I got. |
42 |
2 |
1.2214 |
1970448 |
You will get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. |
56 |
7 |
1.2292 |
1970449 |
It is far better to give than to receive. |
41 |
5 |
1.1064 |
1970472 |
More presidents have been born in the state of Virginia. |
56 |
3 |
0.9487 |
1970473 |
No president of the US has been an only child. |
46 |
4 |
1.0245 |
1970474 |
A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes. |
37 |
2 |
0.8968 |
1970475 |
George Washington had teeth made of whale bone. |
47 |
3 |
1.2462 |
1970477 |
Leonardo daVinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same t... |
84 |
4 |
1.2649 |
1970478 |
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep. |
68 |
4 |
0.8018 |
1970479 |
A penny whistle has six finger holes. |
37 |
3 |
0.8674 |
1970480 |
There are more than thirty-three thousand radio stations around the world. |
74 |
2 |
1.0318 |
1970481 |
Every episode of Seinfeld contains a Superman reference in it somewhere. |
72 |
4 |
1.0600 |
1970482 |
Mr. Spock was second in command of the Starship Enterprise. His blood type was T... |
90 |
2 |
0.9241 |
1970483 |
Pokemon stands for "pocket monster." |
36 |
3 |
0.9617 |
1970484 |
The four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after famous artists - Leonardo,... |
117 |
7 |
0.8637 |
1970485 |
Scooby-Doo's real first name is Scoobert. |
41 |
2 |
0.8446 |
1970486 |
Rocky Raccoon lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota. |
55 |
6 |
0.8401 |
1970487 |
Sleeping Beauty slept one hundred years. |
40 |
6 |
0.8545 |
1970488 |
Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book if "I Ran the Zoo." |
69 |
1 |
0.4529 |
1970489 |
The word cop came from the English term "Constable on Patrol." |
62 |
3 |
0.6193 |
1970490 |
A funambulist is also known as a tightrope walker. |
50 |
2 |
1.0435 |
1970491 |
A klazomaniac is someone who feels like shouting. |
49 |
1 |
0.8273 |
1970492 |
The ball on the top of a flagpole is called the truck. |
54 |
1 |
0.9260 |
1970493 |
The two ends of a magnet are called poles. |
42 |
1 |
0.8198 |
1970494 |
According to author Dougals Adams, a salween is the faint taste of dishwashing l... |
108 |
5 |
0.9157 |
1970495 |
A group of toads is called a knot. |
34 |
7 |
1.0207 |
1970496 |
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." |
69 |
2 |
0.7332 |
1970497 |
The most used letter in the English alphabet is E. Q is the least used. |
71 |
6 |
1.0056 |
1970498 |
The only fifteen-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "... |
97 |
2 |
0.6989 |
1970499 |
"Skepticisms" is the longest typed word that alternates hands. |
62 |
2 |
0.5504 |
1970501 |
Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions. |
82 |
5 |
0.8974 |
1970502 |
The words racecar and kayak are palindromes; they are the same whether they are ... |
116 |
1 |
0.7389 |
1970503 |
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. |
77 |
5 |
0.9977 |
1970504 |
Tarantulas cannot spin webs. |
28 |
4 |
0.9579 |
1970505 |
The original name for butterfly was the flutterby. |
50 |
2 |
0.9179 |
1970506 |
Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. |
46 |
6 |
0.9644 |
1970507 |
Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. Humans, by comparison, have only ... |
98 |
7 |
0.8594 |
1970508 |
Butterflies taste with their hind feet. |
39 |
5 |
1.0429 |
1970509 |
A large swarm of locusts can eat eighty thousand tons of corn a day! |
68 |
1 |
0.7785 |
1970510 |
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eat... |
91 |
3 |
0.8725 |
1970511 |
The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about twenty-two hundred people. |
80 |
6 |
1.0463 |
1970512 |
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and then continue living. |
73 |
5 |
1.0390 |
1970513 |
Frogs drink and breathe through their skin. |
43 |
3 |
0.9263 |
1970514 |
Toads do not have teeth, but frogs do. |
38 |
5 |
1.2087 |
1970515 |
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as ten thousand ins... |
111 |
3 |
1.0237 |
1970516 |
The gecko lizard can run on the ceiling without falling because its toes have fl... |
119 |
1 |
0.9558 |
1970517 |
The tongue of a chameleon is twice the length of its body. |
58 |
1 |
0.7463 |
1970518 |
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It... |
107 |
1 |
1.0551 |
1970519 |
A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as the egg from which it hatch... |
83 |
1 |
0.9736 |
1970520 |
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antartica. |
59 |
5 |
1.1957 |
1970521 |
Snakes do not have eyelids, so even when they're asleep, they cannot close their... |
86 |
4 |
0.8416 |
1970523 |
A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; a group of geese in the air i... |
90 |
4 |
1.0849 |
1970524 |
A group of rhinos is called a crash. |
36 |
3 |
1.0130 |
1970525 |
A group of kangaroos is called a mob. |
37 |
4 |
1.1527 |
1970526 |
A group of crows is called a murder. |
36 |
7 |
1.2340 |
1970527 |
Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day. |
52 |
3 |
1.1202 |
1970528 |
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky. |
59 |
1 |
0.8649 |
1970529 |
Bats are voracious insect eaters, devouring as many as six hundred bugs per hour... |
111 |
4 |
0.9690 |
1970532 |
Time and erosion have erased 99 percent of all dinosaur footprints. |
67 |
5 |
1.1016 |
1970533 |
In eighteenth century France, visitors to the royal palace in Versailles were al... |
175 |
4 |
0.9121 |
1970534 |
The hottest chili pepper in the world is the habanero. |
54 |
2 |
1.1604 |
1970535 |
Dinner guests during medieval times in England were expected to bring their own ... |
94 |
6 |
1.0155 |
1970536 |
It is estimated that Americans consume ten million tons of turkey on Thanksgivin... |
86 |
1 |
1.2056 |
1970537 |
The Southern dish "chitlins" is made up of the small intestines of pigs. |
72 |
2 |
0.9869 |
1970538 |
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passin... |
114 |
1 |
1.3401 |
1970539 |
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. |
59 |
9 |
1.0939 |
1970540 |
There are more than fifteen thousand kinds of rice. Rice is grown on more than 1... |
184 |
1 |
0.8626 |
1970541 |
Just as no two snowflakes look alike, it is said that no two cornflakes look ali... |
83 |
1 |
0.9226 |
1970542 |
Salt is the only rock that humans can eat. It is also one of the few spices that... |
107 |
4 |
1.2152 |
1970544 |
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: spade... |
176 |
1 |
0.6730 |
1970545 |
For a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be sh... |
108 |
1 |
0.8669 |
1970546 |
The face of a penny can hold thirty drops of water. |
51 |
14 |
1.1766 |
1970549 |
If you took a standard Slinky and stretched it out, it would measure eighty-seve... |
92 |
1 |
1.0659 |
1970550 |
The yo-yo originated in the Phillipines, where it was used as a weapon in hunting. |
82 |
2 |
0.8842 |
1970552 |
It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle. If done p... |
152 |
1 |
0.8243 |
1970553 |
The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue. |
65 |
4 |
0.8694 |
1970554 |
A typical double mattress contains as many as two million house dust mites. |
75 |
12 |
0.9478 |
1970555 |
During the Middle Ages, few people were able to read or write. The clergy were v... |
113 |
4 |
0.9988 |
1970556 |
New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the right to vote. ... |
102 |
2 |
1.0168 |
1970557 |
One hundred and sixty cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Braz... |
113 |
2 |
1.1482 |
1970558 |
The Hoover Dam was built to last two thousand years. The concrete in it will not... |
132 |
1 |
0.6834 |
1970559 |
The Hoover Dam was built to last two thousand years. The concrete in it will not... |
132 |
12 |
1.0616 |
1970560 |
The slogan on New Hampshire state license plates reads "Live Free or Die." These... |
161 |
2 |
0.6916 |
1970714 |
Didn't your mother warn you that you shouldn't go out into Central Park at night? |
81 |
4 |
0.7361 |
1970715 |
Mr. and Mrs. Little, we try to discourage couples from adopting outside of their... |
117 |
3 |
1.0534 |
1970716 |
I'm not just a mouse. I'm a member of this family. |
50 |
5 |
1.0542 |
1970717 |
Taxi! What does a mouse have to do to get a cab in this city? |
61 |
3 |
1.0863 |
1970718 |
Stuart jumped for the halyards, and the jib and the forestaysail came rippling d... |
84 |
1 |
0.8325 |
1970719 |
He said model boats were his hobby and that he'd be delighted to have Stuart tak... |
116 |
3 |
1.0235 |
1970721 |
She brought it in and put it near the radiator, and in a short while it fluttere... |
112 |
4 |
0.9030 |
1970722 |
It seemed to him that he had never seen any creature so beautiful as this tiny b... |
110 |
1 |
1.3320 |
1970723 |
It was a tired little mouse that crawled into bed a few minutes later - tired bu... |
106 |
3 |
0.7653 |
1970724 |
He lay that way for almost an hour and when he recovered his senses he looked ar... |
115 |
6 |
1.0477 |
1970725 |
The highways and byways are where you'll find me, always looking for Margalo. |
77 |
4 |
1.0118 |
1970727 |
Nix on swiping anything. |
24 |
3 |
1.0216 |
1970729 |
Well now, if I'm going to be Chairman of the World this morning, we've got to ha... |
94 |
5 |
0.8039 |
1970730 |
And don't forget - a person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast. |
82 |
7 |
1.1151 |
1970731 |
And don't forget - a person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast. |
82 |
5 |
0.9950 |
1970732 |
Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that l... |
100 |
6 |
1.0451 |
1970733 |
But the sky was bright, and somehow he felt he was headed in the right direction. |
81 |
8 |
1.1680 |
1970755 |
Mel Blanc, who was the voice of Bugs Bunny in the cartoons, was allergic to carr... |
84 |
2 |
1.0960 |
1970756 |
Mickey Mouse's ears are always turned to the front. |
51 |
5 |
0.8437 |
1970757 |
Popeye's adopted son is named Swee'pea. |
39 |
3 |
0.8349 |
1970758 |
Popeye is five feet, six inches tall. He has a anchor tattooed on his arm. |
74 |
1 |
0.8371 |
1970759 |
In the comic strip Peanuts, Charlie Brown's father is a barber. |
63 |
8 |
0.9861 |
1970760 |
In the movie Fantasia, the sorcerer's name is Yesnid - Disney spelled backward. |
79 |
2 |
0.6385 |
1970761 |
The first female monster to appeaar on the big screen was the Bride of Frankenst... |
84 |
1 |
1.0122 |
1970762 |
C3PO is first character to speak in Star Wars. |
46 |
4 |
0.9554 |
1970764 |
In the movie ET, the sound of his walking was made by someone squishing her hand... |
91 |
4 |
1.1579 |
1970765 |
Sleeping Beauty slept for one hundred years. |
44 |
6 |
0.9436 |
1970766 |
Bambi was originally published in 1929 in German. |
49 |
3 |
0.8455 |
1970768 |
Guinness World Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen fro... |
99 |
1 |
1.0612 |
1970769 |
Mary Shelley wrote the book Frankenstein at the age of nineteen. |
64 |
2 |
0.9266 |
1970770 |
People in Iceland read more books per capita than any other people in the world. |
80 |
3 |
1.0557 |
1970771 |
Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter. |
55 |
2 |
0.8580 |
1970772 |
Did you know that dolphins sleep with one eye open? |
51 |
4 |
0.7567 |
1970773 |
Did you know that a mammal's blood is red, an insect's blood is yellow and a lob... |
101 |
2 |
0.9938 |
1970774 |
Did you know that loud, fast music makes termites chew faster? |
62 |
3 |
1.0291 |
1970775 |
Did you know that the eye of an ostrich is larger than its brain? |
65 |
3 |
0.7844 |
1970776 |
Did you know that the tongue of a blue whale is larger than an elephant? |
72 |
3 |
0.8050 |
1970777 |
Did you know that the whistle of a blue whale is the loudest noise made by an an... |
85 |
3 |
0.8588 |
1970778 |
Did you know that camels have three eyelids to protect their eyes from blown sand? |
82 |
11 |
0.9415 |
1970779 |
Did you know that only female mosquitos bite? |
45 |
2 |
0.8157 |
1970780 |
The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly faster than 190 miles per h... |
84 |
1 |
1.0518 |
1970781 |
When a mother cormorant feels that her offspring are ready to leave the nest, sh... |
140 |
8 |
1.0649 |
1970782 |
Statistically you are more likely to be attacked by a cow than a shark. |
71 |
3 |
1.0830 |
1970783 |
An eagle can kill and carry an animal as large as a small deer. |
63 |
11 |
1.1974 |
1970784 |
A queen bee only uses her stinger to sting another queen bee. |
61 |
3 |
1.1778 |
1970785 |
To scare off enemies, the horned lizard squirts blood from its eyelids. |
71 |
2 |
1.0258 |
1970786 |
Lobsters can regenerate their legs, claws and antennae if these parts are pulled... |
99 |
2 |
0.7153 |
1970787 |
A scallop swims by quickly clapping its shell open and shut. This makes a water ... |
116 |
3 |
1.1884 |
1970789 |
A fox will sometimes nip the heels of cattle to make the cattle run. The cattle'... |
157 |
4 |
1.0018 |
1970790 |
An ant can lift ten times its own weight. |
41 |
5 |
1.1210 |
1970792 |
An octopus has three hearts. |
28 |
3 |
1.3554 |
1970794 |
Sharks do not have bones. Their skeleton is made of cartilage. |
62 |
3 |
0.9911 |
1970795 |
The youngest college graduate was ten years, five months old when he got his bac... |
103 |
3 |
0.9522 |
1970796 |
The record for holding one's breath under water is 7.5 minutes. |
63 |
8 |
0.9442 |
1970797 |
Every time that Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured cold water over his... |
86 |
6 |
1.0395 |
1970798 |
The longest non-talking movie ever made was Andy Warhol's "Sleep". It consists s... |
120 |
5 |
0.6888 |
1970799 |
The first CD pressed in the USA was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA". |
74 |
1 |
0.4252 |
1970800 |
During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometim... |
91 |
1 |
1.1091 |
1970801 |
The idea of a countdown before a rocket launch originated as a tension-building ... |
129 |
2 |
0.5978 |
1970802 |
In Boston, MA in the nineteenth century, it was illegal to bathe without a docto... |
97 |
7 |
0.8207 |
1970803 |
Most lipstick contains fish scales. |
35 |
6 |
1.2182 |
1970804 |
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. |
51 |
4 |
1.1931 |
1970805 |
A popular dish in Belize contains mashed and roasted cockroaches. |
65 |
3 |
1.0906 |
1970806 |
"Go" is the shortest sentence in the English language. |
54 |
4 |
0.7859 |
1970807 |
The Cambodian alphabet is the largest. It has 74 letters. |
57 |
1 |
0.9736 |
1970808 |
The Hawaiian alphabet consists of only 12 letters. |
50 |
2 |
0.9926 |
1970809 |
The name 'jeep' comes from the abbreviation used in the army for the general pur... |
97 |
3 |
0.8040 |
1970810 |
The word 'news' is actually an acronym for the four points of the compass (north... |
104 |
6 |
0.8659 |
1970811 |
The first word spoken on the moon was - "Okay." |
47 |
11 |
0.8481 |
1970812 |
More than a thousand new insects are discovered each year. |
58 |
4 |
1.1704 |
1970813 |
Toilet paper was invented in New York in 1857. |
46 |
2 |
0.8882 |
1970814 |
Natural gas has no smell. The smell is added for safety reasons. |
64 |
8 |
1.1901 |
1970815 |
A Blue Moon is the second full moon within a calendar month. |
60 |
1 |
0.6790 |
1970816 |
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined. |
74 |
2 |
0.7371 |
1970837 |
After the French War ended in 1763, peace and prosperity came to the Thirteen Co... |
152 |
1 |
0.9335 |
1970839 |
There was little industry in the colonial days in America, so manufactured goods... |
146 |
4 |
0.8632 |
1970843 |
In 1775 the British Army was one of the best in the world. |
58 |
3 |
1.0407 |
1970844 |
In 1776 the colonies were ready for independence, but an official document was n... |
137 |
3 |
1.0157 |
1970846 |
The early flag of the United States had 13 stripes to represent each of the stat... |
156 |
5 |
0.9447 |
1970848 |
The end of the Revolutionary War in America did not guarantee that the states wo... |
111 |
1 |
1.0539 |
1970849 |
Several years of labor, debate, and negotiations were required before a US Const... |
224 |
1 |
1.0266 |
1970851 |
Congress adopted a new flag with a field of stars on blue to represent each of t... |
90 |
6 |
1.0030 |
1970852 |
America desperately needed military supplies, cash and a navy to fight of the Br... |
113 |
3 |
0.8302 |
1970854 |
Conditions in hospitals during the American Revolution were quite primitive: sur... |
185 |
1 |
0.7726 |
1970855 |
Many soldiers in the American Revolution died from minor wounds that became infe... |
102 |
2 |
1.1675 |
1970856 |
After leading the Patriots in battle against the British, George Washington serv... |
127 |
1 |
0.7800 |
1970886 |
The universe is made of millions of stars and planets, and enormous clouds of ga... |
109 |
3 |
0.7151 |
1970888 |
A star is a hot ball of gas, which produces heat and light from nuclear reaction... |
98 |
2 |
1.0809 |
1970889 |
Stars come in lots of sizes and brightnesses. |
45 |
2 |
1.0638 |
1970890 |
The Earth is one of eight planets that travel around, or orbit, the Sun. |
72 |
5 |
1.0192 |
1970891 |
It takes a ray of light 1 1/2 seconds to travel from the Moon to the Earth. |
75 |
8 |
1.1001 |
1970892 |
The closest star to Earth is the Sun. It is about 94 million miles away. |
72 |
1 |
1.0373 |
1970893 |
Most scientists believe that the universe began with a huge explosion. They call... |
111 |
5 |
1.0003 |
1970894 |
Unmanned space probes are sent to investigate deep space and transmit their find... |
99 |
3 |
0.8694 |
1970895 |
The largest telescope to be placed in space so far is the Hubble Space Telescope... |
108 |
4 |
0.8985 |
1970896 |
The planets closest to the Sun, called the inner planets, are small, rocky and c... |
129 |
1 |
0.9712 |
1970897 |
Asteroids are large chunks of rock, or rock and metal. They also orbit the Sun. |
79 |
7 |
1.0171 |
1970900 |
Comets are like huge, dirty icebergs orbiting the Sun. |
54 |
6 |
1.0363 |
1970901 |
Small pieces of debris floating around in the Solar System are called meteoroids. |
81 |
4 |
0.8741 |
1970902 |
Our Sun could hold more than a million planets the size of the Earth, but compar... |
162 |
1 |
1.1539 |
1970903 |
Sunspots are small, dark patches on the surface of the Sun that are slightly coo... |
108 |
9 |
1.2309 |
1970904 |
The sun blows a constant stream of invisible particles out into space, in all di... |
120 |
2 |
0.9424 |
1970905 |
As the Earth and Moon move in space, they sometimes block each other from the Su... |
117 |
4 |
0.8619 |
1970906 |
A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon. |
75 |
7 |
1.1313 |
1970907 |
A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, blot... |
124 |
1 |
0.9486 |
1970908 |
Of all the planets in our Solar System, Mercury is the closest to the Sun and al... |
96 |
3 |
1.0716 |
1970909 |
Since Mercury is nearest the Sun, it orbits the Sun in a shorter time period tha... |
99 |
10 |
1.0691 |
1970910 |
The second planet from the Sun is Venus, which is similar in size to Earth. |
75 |
3 |
0.8360 |
1970911 |
The atmosphere around Venus is very thick and mainly made of carbon dioxide gas. |
80 |
2 |
1.0980 |
1970912 |
At some times of the year, you can easily see Venus with the naked eye, just bef... |
114 |
2 |
0.8931 |
1970913 |
The Earth is about 94 million miles away from the Sun. |
54 |
7 |
1.0325 |
1970914 |
Earth's gravity makes the Moon spin. |
36 |
7 |
0.9716 |
1970915 |
It takes the same time for the Moon to spin around once as it does for it to orb... |
89 |
4 |
1.1420 |
1970917 |
On Earth, the atmosphere acts like a roof. It stops the Sun from making things t... |
147 |
3 |
1.1378 |
1970918 |
The moon does not make its own light, but it reflects the Sun's rays. |
69 |
6 |
1.0150 |
1970919 |
The Moon has no atmosphere to protect it. |
41 |
8 |
0.9668 |
1970920 |
It takes 28 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth once. |
54 |
6 |
1.0175 |
1970921 |
Mars looks like a bright, orange-red star. |
42 |
4 |
0.9153 |
1970922 |
Mars is only about half the size of the Earth. |
46 |
7 |
1.2836 |
1970923 |
The soil on Mars contains large amounts of iron, which gives the planet a rusty ... |
121 |
2 |
1.1242 |
1970924 |
Contrary to belief, Martians have not been found on Mars! |
57 |
2 |
0.8278 |
1970925 |
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet away from... |
89 |
3 |
1.1418 |
1970926 |
Astronomers know of at least 28 moons that orbit around Jupiter. |
64 |
3 |
0.9127 |
1970927 |
Saturn is often called the ringed planet because it is surrounded by distinctive... |
105 |
4 |
1.0651 |
1970929 |
Uranus spins on its side. No other planet does this. |
52 |
3 |
0.9902 |
1970930 |
Neptune's bluish appearance comes from the methane gas in its atmosphere, which ... |
97 |
2 |
1.1249 |
1970931 |
Recently, astronomers have found new galaxies that are bigger and less tightly p... |
128 |
7 |
1.2313 |
1970932 |
When you look at a galaxy, you see the combined light of its billions of stars. |
79 |
3 |
1.0395 |
1970933 |
Compared with other galaxies, our galaxy, the Milky Way, is relatively large. |
77 |
3 |
0.7470 |
1970934 |
In the northern hemisphere, the best time to see the Milky Way is between the mo... |
107 |
3 |
1.0603 |
1970935 |
Sometimes people say that the Milky Way Galaxy looks like a trail of spilled mil... |
97 |
1 |
1.1323 |
1970936 |
New stars form within vast clouds of gas and dust, called nebulae. |
66 |
4 |
0.9153 |
1970937 |
Since the earliest civilizations, people have noticed patterns of bright stars i... |
132 |
2 |
0.7525 |
1970938 |
Dividing the stars into constellations helps to find and identify stars in the n... |
89 |
12 |
1.1588 |
1970939 |
Stars are classified by their color. The hottest stars are blue or white, and th... |
98 |
4 |
0.9462 |
1970940 |
No matter where we live, birds are a natural part of our lives. |
63 |
7 |
1.0790 |
1970941 |
Boston, MA is strategically located within a major north-south bird migration pa... |
112 |
4 |
0.9045 |
1970942 |
Because you won't find a loon up in a tree or a bobwhite out at sea, habitat is ... |
125 |
1 |
1.1422 |
1970943 |
Common Loons dive deep and can actually swim underwater while try to catch a fish. |
82 |
8 |
1.1460 |
1970945 |
Gannets will soar over 100 feet above the ocean surface, then fold their wings b... |
136 |
1 |
0.9584 |
1970946 |
Great Blue Herons nest communally, building bulky stick nests at the top of tree... |
124 |
4 |
0.7793 |
1970947 |
The Green Heron prefers to hunt for frogs and small fish in shallow, weedy wetla... |
84 |
4 |
1.1629 |
1970948 |
Virginia Rails prefer to build their raised nests in dense vegetation. They ofte... |
125 |
6 |
0.9129 |
1970949 |
As beautiful as the Mute Swan can be, it does have a nasty side as it will attac... |
126 |
7 |
1.0683 |
1970951 |
Mallard ducks are the most common duck in the Northern Hemisphere. |
66 |
2 |
0.7243 |
1970952 |
The productive, sheltered waters of the Boston area provide excellent wintering ... |
119 |
6 |
0.9406 |
1970953 |
With their long wings, Turkey Vultures soar high up in the sky in rising thermal... |
112 |
3 |
0.8175 |
1970954 |
Bald Eagles are raptors that are quite good at catching fish, which they pluck f... |
120 |
4 |
1.0271 |
1970956 |
The large Red-tailed Hawk is constantly harassed by smaller birds like crows and... |
90 |
5 |
0.8420 |
1970957 |
Some birds make a call that sounds like their name. The Bobwhite is one of them. |
80 |
4 |
1.0015 |
1970958 |
To divert attention from their nest, an adult Killdeer will pretend it has a bro... |
132 |
6 |
1.0260 |
1970960 |
Most owls senses are refined for darkness and their bodies for silence. |
71 |
6 |
0.9831 |
1970961 |
Hummingbirds are among the few birds that can fly backwards and even upside down! |
81 |
7 |
1.0362 |
1970962 |
Hummingbirds can sometimes fly backwards and even upside down! |
62 |
1 |
1.3393 |
1970963 |
The Barn Swallow has one of the longest migration routes of any North American l... |
89 |
4 |
1.0760 |
1970964 |
Blue Jays wake up neighborhoods and forests with their noisy calls. |
67 |
1 |
0.8157 |
1970965 |
Scientific studies have shown that crows are capable of solving simple problems. |
80 |
5 |
1.1907 |
1970966 |
Once the first fall chill arrives, we're likely to see and hear chickadees aroun... |
98 |
2 |
0.8278 |
1970967 |
The male Eastern Bluebird looks like a piece of pure sky come to life. |
70 |
1 |
0.9215 |
1970968 |
Everyone loves to see the first Robin in their yard in the spring! |
66 |
4 |
0.9442 |
1970969 |
The springtime migration of the many different Warblers is quite a sight to see. |
80 |
2 |
1.3542 |
1970970 |
Unfortunately, the influx of Starlings has helped reduce the population of many ... |
100 |
5 |
0.9882 |
1970971 |
A mockingbird can and will expertly mimic many of the calls of other birds. |
75 |
3 |
0.7771 |
1970972 |
The gray Junco with the white breast is often called the Snow Bird. |
67 |
6 |
1.2143 |
1970973 |
You can hear the loud, raspy calls of Red-Winged Blackbirds every spring as they... |
128 |
1 |
1.0970 |
1970974 |
Cowbirds have the audacity to lay their eggs in smaller songbirds' nests! |
73 |
3 |
0.9667 |
1970986 |
Work is a force applied over a distance. |
40 |
9 |
1.1261 |
1970987 |
Power is the rate at which work is done. |
40 |
5 |
1.1483 |
1970988 |
Generally there are two kinds of energy in mechanical systems: potential energy ... |
99 |
2 |
0.6508 |
1970989 |
Potential energy is due to the position of the object and kinetic energy is due ... |
96 |
1 |
1.0605 |
1970990 |
A machine is an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion, and energy in ... |
103 |
2 |
0.7389 |
1970991 |
A simple machine is any of the various basic mechanisms including the lever, whe... |
138 |
4 |
0.9271 |
1970992 |
Energy is the ability to do work. |
33 |
8 |
1.0416 |
1970993 |
The main types of bridges that engineers build are either arch, suspension or be... |
91 |
2 |
1.0334 |
1970994 |
Beam bridges are the most simple type of bridge. |
48 |
3 |
0.9219 |
1970995 |
The anchorage of a bridge is where the cables of a suspension bridge are secured... |
97 |
7 |
1.1410 |
1970996 |
A drawbridge is a moveable bridge with a deck that can be raised or lowered. |
76 |
4 |
0.8731 |
1970997 |
Compression is a force which tends to reduce or shorten something by pressure. |
78 |
7 |
1.1343 |
1970998 |
Tension is a force in construction which tends to lengthen or pull on something. |
80 |
6 |
0.9991 |
1971000 |
The keystone in an arch bridge is the wedge-shaped center piece that is put in p... |
176 |
1 |
1.1181 |
1971053 |
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone. When she got... |
141 |
4 |
0.9278 |
1971054 |
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone. |
67 |
2 |
0.9016 |
1971055 |
When she got there the cupboard was bare, so her little dog had none. |
69 |
1 |
1.0766 |
1971056 |
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by the toe If he hollers let him go, Out g... |
90 |
2 |
0.7611 |
1971057 |
The farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, Hi-ho, the derry-o, the farmer i... |
91 |
4 |
0.8961 |
1971058 |
Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, and do... |
114 |
7 |
0.8841 |
1971059 |
Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. |
51 |
5 |
0.8738 |
1971061 |
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. |
60 |
3 |
1.0743 |
1971062 |
All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put Humpty together again. |
81 |
2 |
0.8607 |
1971063 |
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. Bumped his head and he went ... |
125 |
3 |
1.0486 |
1971064 |
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring. |
51 |
7 |
1.0437 |
1971065 |
Rain, rain, go away; Come again another day. |
44 |
1 |
1.1721 |
1971066 |
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a mincemeat pie. He stuck in his thum... |
138 |
1 |
0.8185 |
1971067 |
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a mincemeat pie. |
59 |
5 |
1.0155 |
1971068 |
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary w... |
108 |
2 |
1.0669 |
1971069 |
Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. |
53 |
2 |
0.8669 |
1971070 |
On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball when someb... |
92 |
3 |
0.7417 |
1971071 |
One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to GO! |
72 |
1 |
0.9018 |
1971072 |
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer's day. The Knave of Hea... |
129 |
1 |
1.1744 |
1971073 |
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer's day. |
63 |
12 |
1.0363 |
1971074 |
The Knave of Hearts he stole those tarts and took them clean away. |
66 |
4 |
1.0418 |
1971075 |
Ring around the roses, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes we all fall down! |
78 |
11 |
0.8766 |
1971076 |
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merri... |
104 |
1 |
1.0553 |
1971077 |
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. |
47 |
4 |
0.8753 |
1971078 |
Simple Simon met a pieman, going to the fair. |
45 |
4 |
0.8081 |
1971079 |
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, they all beg... |
146 |
2 |
0.8056 |
1971080 |
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. |
42 |
3 |
0.9012 |
1971081 |
When the pie was opened, they all began to sing. |
48 |
3 |
1.0939 |
1971082 |
Now, wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the King? |
54 |
3 |
0.8023 |
1971083 |
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might,... |
110 |
2 |
0.5366 |
1971084 |
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. |
50 |
2 |
1.0874 |
1971085 |
I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. |
59 |
4 |
0.9136 |
1971086 |
Teddy bear, Teddy bear, touch the ground. Teddy bear, Teddy bear, turn around. |
78 |
2 |
1.0723 |
1971087 |
Teddy bear, Teddy bear, turn out the light. Teddy bear, Teddy bear, say good nig... |
83 |
5 |
1.0148 |
1971088 |
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't... |
97 |
9 |
1.0513 |
1971089 |
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. |
43 |
8 |
1.0929 |
1971091 |
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little pig... |
190 |
2 |
0.9373 |
1971092 |
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home. |
64 |
2 |
1.1449 |
1971093 |
This little piggy had roast beef and this little piggy had none. |
64 |
6 |
1.1317 |
1971094 |
This little piggy cried, "Wee, wee, wee." All the way home. |
59 |
2 |
0.6685 |
1971095 |
Three blind mice, see how they run! |
35 |
1 |
0.9606 |
1971096 |
Three little kittens, they lost their mittens, and they began to cry. |
69 |
7 |
1.0676 |
1971097 |
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig, home again, home again, jiggety jig. |
76 |
4 |
0.9459 |
1971098 |
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so ... |
112 |
2 |
1.0994 |
1971099 |
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. |
57 |
2 |
1.1127 |
1971100 |
Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on a pony. He stuck a feather in his hat and ... |
99 |
5 |
1.1949 |
1971101 |
Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on a pony. |
45 |
8 |
1.0151 |
1971102 |
He stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni. |
53 |
5 |
0.8478 |
1971103 |
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig. |
39 |
7 |
1.0984 |
1971104 |
Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of. |
74 |
8 |
0.8828 |
1971105 |
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boys are made of. |
74 |
6 |
1.0444 |
1971106 |
Jack be nimble. Jack be quick. Jack jump over the candlestick. |
62 |
1 |
0.6734 |
1971107 |
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. |
62 |
3 |
1.0027 |
1971109 |
Along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened Miss Muffet away. |
76 |
8 |
1.1258 |
1971112 |
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. |
36 |
6 |
1.0379 |
1971113 |
The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the Warden. The W... |
101 |
3 |
0.9306 |
1971114 |
The Warden owns the shade. |
26 |
7 |
1.1697 |
1971115 |
Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the ho... |
103 |
4 |
1.1507 |
1971116 |
Here's a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scropions: If you don't bo... |
122 |
4 |
0.7383 |
1971117 |
Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing that can... |
119 |
2 |
1.0352 |
1971118 |
But you don't want to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. That's the worst thi... |
145 |
4 |
0.9764 |
1971119 |
But you don't want to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. |
59 |
3 |
0.9582 |
1971120 |
That's the worst thing that can happen to you. You will die a slow and painful d... |
85 |
5 |
1.3854 |
1971121 |
That's the worst thing that can happen to you. |
46 |
2 |
1.1648 |
1971122 |
You will die a slow and painful death. |
38 |
5 |
1.1208 |
1971123 |
Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. |
76 |
1 |
0.8685 |
1971124 |
Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. |
39 |
3 |
0.8306 |
1971126 |
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will ... |
105 |
4 |
1.1766 |
1971127 |
That was what some people thought. |
34 |
6 |
0.8909 |
1971128 |
Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. |
35 |
1 |
0.8495 |
1971130 |
He had never been to camp before. |
33 |
2 |
0.8427 |
1971131 |
Stanley was from a poor family. |
31 |
5 |
1.2780 |
1971132 |
Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convict... |
136 |
2 |
0.9005 |
1971133 |
Stanley was not a bad kid. |
26 |
5 |
1.0419 |
1971134 |
He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. |
56 |
7 |
1.0436 |
1971135 |
He'd just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
52 |
6 |
1.1359 |
1971137 |
If it weren't for that, Stanley's family would be living in a mansion on a beach... |
95 |
6 |
1.0362 |
1971138 |
Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber an... |
92 |
5 |
1.1040 |
1971140 |
It was this latest project that led to Stanley's arrest. |
56 |
6 |
0.8557 |
1971141 |
Stanley could see some kids dressed in orange and carrying shovels dragging them... |
104 |
4 |
1.0249 |
1971142 |
As he watched the boy turn and walk away, he couldn't for the life of him figure... |
128 |
2 |
1.0286 |
1971143 |
Because of the scarcity of water, each camper was only allowed a four-minute sho... |
84 |
3 |
0.8460 |
1971144 |
Stanley had never been one to leave food on his plate, matter how it tasted. |
76 |
3 |
1.1915 |
1971146 |
They hadn't exactly fallen from the sky. |
40 |
6 |
0.8591 |
1971147 |
He had just walked out from under a freeway overpass when the shoe hit him on th... |
87 |
8 |
1.0703 |
1971149 |
Stanley's blisters had ripped open, and new blisters formed. |
60 |
3 |
0.8150 |
1971150 |
He kept changing his grip on the shovel to try to avoid the pain. |
65 |
8 |
1.0315 |
1971151 |
He could see the outline of a heart, with the letters K B etched inside it. |
75 |
2 |
0.9226 |
1971152 |
Stanley did as he was told. He carefully looked through all the dirt dug up by Z... |
164 |
7 |
1.0168 |
1971153 |
Stanley did as he was told. |
27 |
4 |
0.9760 |
1971155 |
The boys dug until each hole was well over six feet deep and wide. |
66 |
5 |
1.0199 |
1971156 |
Still, it was easier for two boys to dig a six-foot hole than it was for one boy... |
105 |
1 |
1.0899 |
1971157 |
By lunchtime the Warden was beginning to lose her patience. She made them eat qu... |
118 |
1 |
1.3460 |
1971158 |
By lunchtime the Warden was beginning to lose her patience. |
59 |
2 |
1.2268 |
1971159 |
She made them eat quickly, so they could get back to work. |
58 |
5 |
1.2810 |
1971160 |
Stanley looked out through the haze of heat and dirt at the other boys, lowering... |
107 |
2 |
0.9660 |
1971161 |
One hundred and ten years ago, Green Lake was the largest lake in Texas. It was ... |
154 |
3 |
0.9571 |
1971162 |
For the next twenty years Kissin' Kate Barlow was one of the most feared outlaws... |
97 |
2 |
1.1386 |
1971163 |
He glanced downward and had to force himself to suppress a scream. He was standi... |
137 |
1 |
0.9633 |
1971164 |
He glanced downward and had to force himself to suppress a scream. |
66 |
5 |
0.9923 |
1971165 |
He was standing in a lizard nest. |
33 |
4 |
1.0634 |
1971166 |
My youngest brother paid no attention to me. |
44 |
5 |
1.1022 |
1971168 |
I shook my head, realizing now that Miss Crocker did not even know what I was ta... |
147 |
5 |
1.0287 |
1971169 |
I shook my head, realizing now that Miss Crocker did not even know what I was ta... |
92 |
1 |
0.9390 |
1971170 |
She had looked at the page and had understood nothing. |
54 |
7 |
1.0783 |
1971171 |
In fact, the county provided very little and much of the money which supported t... |
126 |
3 |
1.0680 |
1971172 |
When we neared the house, the dull glow of a kerosene lamp was shining faintly f... |
99 |
1 |
0.6864 |
1971173 |
When we neared the house, the dull glow of a kerosene lamp was shining faintly f... |
99 |
4 |
0.9120 |
1971175 |
She grew quiet and rubbed the wrinkles down one hand as if to smooth them away. |
79 |
8 |
1.0621 |
1971176 |
I gazed at the pond, glassy grey and calm, until she was ready to go on. |
72 |
6 |
0.9636 |
1971177 |
I had learned that at times like these it was better to just sit and wait than t... |
133 |
3 |
0.9285 |
1971178 |
I had a good mind to go back in and find out what what had made Mr. Barnett so m... |
83 |
1 |
0.9335 |
1971179 |
He crossed the street sullenly then, his hands jammed in his pockets. |
69 |
9 |
1.0170 |
1971181 |
Once inside the house, I leaned against the latch while waves of sick terror swe... |
91 |
2 |
0.7775 |
1971182 |
Once inside the house, I leaned against the latch. |
50 |
2 |
0.9712 |
1971183 |
Later that evening the boys and I sat at the study table. |
57 |
5 |
1.3175 |
1971184 |
Stacey and I carried cans of milk and butter. |
45 |
6 |
0.9511 |
1971185 |
Yet just one glance at each other and we were lost, slumping on the table in hel... |
107 |
2 |
1.0488 |
1971186 |
We were lost in contagious laughter. |
36 |
2 |
1.0568 |
1971187 |
Big Ma did not answer me. |
25 |
3 |
1.0943 |
1971188 |
She pushed open the gate and walked down the drive into the forest. |
67 |
4 |
1.1949 |
1971189 |
She pushed open the gate and walked down the drive into the forest. |
67 |
8 |
1.3233 |
1971190 |
She pushed open the gate and walked down the drive. |
51 |
4 |
1.0590 |
1971191 |
We walked in silence down the narrow cow path. |
46 |
5 |
1.0990 |
1971192 |
We played for awhile in the patches of snow that remained. |
58 |
3 |
1.0784 |
1971193 |
Papa left us then and went back on to the porch. |
48 |
4 |
0.8751 |
1971194 |
I cried for those things which had happened that night which meant things would ... |
98 |
5 |
1.1636 |
1971195 |
I cried for those things which had happened that night. |
55 |
4 |
0.9417 |
1971196 |
His dad had the pickup going. He could get up now. |
50 |
2 |
0.8857 |
1971197 |
Of course he had gotten up early to run. He had gotten up early everyday all sum... |
91 |
3 |
1.0272 |
1971198 |
Of course he had gotten up early to run. |
40 |
7 |
0.9450 |
1971199 |
He had gotten up early everyday all summer to run. |
50 |
2 |
0.8192 |
1971200 |
He figured if he worked at it he could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. |
80 |
2 |
0.9436 |
1971201 |
He could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. |
50 |
4 |
1.1263 |
1971202 |
There wasn't a muscle in his body that didn't ache. |
51 |
3 |
0.9969 |
1971203 |
When he was in first grade, he told his dad that he wanted to be an artist when ... |
91 |
5 |
1.0132 |
1971204 |
He wanted to be an artist when he grew up. |
42 |
6 |
1.1706 |
1971205 |
Jess shoved his art pad and pencils under his mattress. |
55 |
3 |
0.9955 |
1971206 |
It must be embarassing to sit in front when you find yourself dressed funny on t... |
131 |
3 |
0.9433 |
1971207 |
It must be embarassing to be new on the first day of school. |
60 |
4 |
1.0206 |
1971209 |
She ran as if it was her nature. |
32 |
6 |
0.9903 |
1971210 |
Leslie continued to run against the boys at recess and she continued to win. |
76 |
5 |
0.7549 |
1971211 |
Running wasn't fun anymore and it was all Leslie's fault. |
57 |
2 |
0.9897 |
1971212 |
Why did two grown people want to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a p... |
95 |
8 |
0.9306 |
1971213 |
Jess did not know people for whom money was not a problem. |
58 |
2 |
1.2952 |
1971214 |
Everyone had to write a paper about their favorite hobby. |
57 |
1 |
1.3713 |
1971215 |
Nobody would make up scuba diving to be their favorite hobby if it wasn't so. Th... |
124 |
6 |
0.9565 |
1971216 |
Nobody would make up scuba diving to be their favorite hobby if it wasn't so. |
77 |
5 |
1.1988 |
1971217 |
That meant Leslie had gone scuba diving a lot. |
46 |
4 |
0.8872 |
1971218 |
They took turns swinging across the gully on the rope. |
54 |
5 |
1.3199 |
1971219 |
They took turns swinging across the gully on the rope. It was a glorious autumn ... |
156 |
2 |
1.1058 |
1971220 |
Jess leaned back and drank in the rich, clear color of the sky. He was drifting,... |
149 |
4 |
1.0097 |
1971221 |
Jess leaned back and drank in the rich, clear color of the sky. |
63 |
2 |
1.0558 |
1971222 |
He was drifting, drifting like a fat white lazy cloud back and forth across the ... |
85 |
3 |
1.1573 |
1971224 |
Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia." |
44 |
3 |
0.5868 |
1971225 |
Leslie loaned Jess all of her books about Narnia, so he would know how things we... |
102 |
3 |
1.0700 |
1971226 |
Jess would know how things went in a magic kingdom - how the animals and the tre... |
129 |
7 |
1.0201 |
1971227 |
For the first time in his life he got up every morning with something to look fo... |
89 |
1 |
0.8700 |
1971229 |
Leslie's favorite place besides the castle stronghold was the pine forest. |
74 |
4 |
0.8580 |
1971230 |
There the trees grew so thick at the top that the sunshine was veiled. |
70 |
11 |
1.0972 |
1971232 |
There was no mistaking the delight in Leslie's eyes. |
52 |
2 |
0.7605 |
1971233 |
She dropped to her knees on the cold ground, picked the puppy up, and held it cl... |
96 |
3 |
1.3489 |
1971234 |
Something whirled around inside Jess's head. He opened his mouth, but it was dry... |
173 |
2 |
0.9633 |
1971235 |
Something whirled around inside Jess's head. |
44 |
4 |
0.9590 |
1971236 |
He opened his mouth, but it was dry and no words came out. |
58 |
1 |
0.8404 |
1971237 |
He jerked his head from one face to the next for someone to help him. |
69 |
1 |
0.5656 |
1971238 |
Then Jess gave himself over to the numbness that was buzzing to be let out from ... |
102 |
1 |
0.6638 |
1971364 |
Less than 2 percent of the water on Earth is fresh. |
51 |
7 |
1.2023 |
1971365 |
McDonald's in New Zealand serves apricot pies instead of cherry ones. |
69 |
4 |
0.8740 |
1971366 |
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's Big Mac bun. |
70 |
3 |
0.8092 |
1971367 |
Coca-Cola was originally green in color. |
40 |
2 |
0.7589 |
1971368 |
A can of Diet Coke will float in water, while a can of regular Coke sinks. |
74 |
4 |
1.0035 |
1971369 |
Coca-Cola owns the world's second largest truck fleet. |
54 |
1 |
0.4404 |
1971370 |
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. |
47 |
4 |
1.0385 |
1971371 |
The only real food that US astronauts are allowed in space are pecan nuts. |
74 |
2 |
1.0433 |
1971372 |
Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil. |
70 |
3 |
1.0504 |
1971373 |
The oldest known vegetable is the pea. |
38 |
4 |
1.0223 |
1971374 |
Eating raw onions is good for unblocking a stuffed nose. |
56 |
4 |
0.8336 |
1971375 |
Tomatoes and cucumbers are actually fruit. |
42 |
4 |
0.6695 |
1971376 |
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient for waking you up in the morning. |
74 |
4 |
0.8177 |
1971377 |
The most widely eaten fruit in America is the banana. |
53 |
8 |
0.9757 |
1971378 |
A grape will explode if you put it in a microwave oven. |
55 |
7 |
1.0762 |
1971379 |
More than a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii. |
53 |
1 |
1.1917 |
1971380 |
As much as fifty gallons of maple sap are used to make a single gallon of maple ... |
86 |
7 |
1.1367 |
1971381 |
The only food that does not spoil is honey. |
43 |
5 |
1.2196 |
1971382 |
Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures. |
68 |
6 |
1.0260 |
1971383 |
Seaweed is one of the ingredients in some ice cream. |
52 |
8 |
1.1622 |
1971384 |
Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every day for most of... |
96 |
1 |
0.9868 |
1971385 |
During your lifetime, you will eat approximately sixty thousand pounds of food -... |
109 |
2 |
0.9210 |
1971387 |
The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933. |
47 |
5 |
0.7884 |
1971388 |
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy. |
82 |
1 |
0.9476 |
1971389 |
In certain parts of India and ancient China, mouse meat was considered a delicacy. |
82 |
1 |
0.6018 |
1971392 |
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. |
61 |
6 |
1.0595 |
1971393 |
The average lead pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles long or write approxim... |
115 |
4 |
0.8574 |
1971394 |
Each of us generates five pounds of garbage a day; most of it is paper. |
71 |
1 |
1.0212 |
1971395 |
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. |
43 |
4 |
1.1803 |
1971396 |
Ra was the sun god on ancient Egypt. |
36 |
1 |
0.8510 |
1971465 |
Slaves under the last emperors of China wore pigtails so they could be picked ou... |
90 |
2 |
0.9075 |
1971466 |
The world's youngest parents were eight and nine and lived in China in 1910. |
76 |
4 |
1.0128 |
1971467 |
The ship Titanic had four engines. |
34 |
6 |
1.0926 |
1971468 |
Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors. |
42 |
5 |
0.8333 |
1971469 |
When the Titanic sunk there were seventy-five hundred pounds of ham on it. |
74 |
4 |
0.9839 |
1971470 |
The Titanic was running at twenty-two knots when she hit the iceberg. |
69 |
2 |
1.0159 |
1971471 |
The first aerial photograph was taken from a balloon during the Civil War. |
74 |
2 |
1.2347 |
1971473 |
Before the 1800's, there were no separately designed shoes for right and left fe... |
83 |
7 |
0.8406 |
1971474 |
Olive oil was used for washing the body in the ancient Mediterranean world. |
75 |
2 |
0.9259 |
1971475 |
Pirates thought having an earring would improve their eyesight. |
63 |
3 |
1.2346 |
1971477 |
The first police force was established in paris in 1667. |
56 |
1 |
0.6346 |
1971478 |
Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw beautiful young wo... |
122 |
4 |
0.9286 |
1971480 |
It costs more to buy a car today than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and ... |
121 |
4 |
0.9277 |
1971481 |
Pilgrims ate popcorn at the first Thanksgiving dinner. |
54 |
1 |
1.2371 |
1971483 |
There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. |
42 |
5 |
1.2139 |
1971484 |
There was once a town named 6 in West Virginia. |
47 |
4 |
0.9154 |
1971485 |
Harvard is the oldest university in the United States. |
54 |
6 |
0.8870 |
1971487 |
The largest object ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle. |
79 |
4 |
1.0128 |
1971488 |
The San Diego Zoo has the largest collection of animals in the world. |
69 |
6 |
1.2187 |
1971490 |
Maine is the toothpick capital of the world. |
44 |
1 |
1.0870 |
1971491 |
There are 3,900 islands in Japan, the country of islands. |
57 |
4 |
0.9058 |
1971492 |
Japan's currency is the most difficult to counterfeit. |
54 |
3 |
0.8846 |
1971493 |
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head cool. He changed it... |
99 |
3 |
1.1488 |
1971494 |
Home plate in baseball is seventeen inches wide. |
48 |
3 |
0.9806 |
1971495 |
The first formal rules for playing baseball required the winning team to score t... |
95 |
3 |
0.8584 |
1971496 |
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races. |
76 |
6 |
0.9634 |
1971497 |
Soccer is played in more countries in the world than any other sport. |
69 |
5 |
1.2654 |
1971498 |
It takes three thousand cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's ... |
100 |
6 |
0.9887 |
1971499 |
Rudyard Kipling, living in Vermont in the 1890's, invented the game of snow golf... |
148 |
1 |
0.8321 |
1971500 |
Rudyard Kipling, living in Vermont in the 1890's, invented the game of snow golf. |
81 |
2 |
0.5865 |
1971501 |
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers. |
71 |
2 |
0.9243 |
1971502 |
The only golfer to play golf on the moon was Alan Shepard. His golf ball was nev... |
89 |
4 |
1.3317 |
1971503 |
Tug-of-war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920. |
54 |
10 |
0.7904 |
1971504 |
The five Olympic rings represent the continents. |
48 |
2 |
0.6997 |
1971505 |
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only four miles per hour. Fish, in c... |
137 |
8 |
0.9845 |
1971506 |
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only four miles per hour. |
69 |
3 |
1.2192 |
1971507 |
Fish have been clocked at sixty-eight miles per hour. |
53 |
4 |
0.9867 |
1971508 |
Professional hockey players skate at average speeds of twenty to twenty-five mil... |
92 |
2 |
0.9683 |
1971510 |
A hockey puck is one inch thick. |
32 |
3 |
0.9885 |
1971511 |
Three consecutive strikes in bowling are called a turkey. |
57 |
1 |
0.7677 |
1971512 |
The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the in... |
88 |
4 |
1.0563 |
1971513 |
Pole vaults used to be stiff. Now they bend, which allows the vaulter to go much... |
88 |
1 |
0.8367 |
1971514 |
The two hottest months at the equator are March and September. |
62 |
1 |
0.9018 |
1971515 |
Meteorologists claim they are right 85% of the time. |
52 |
4 |
0.7406 |
1971516 |
The Apollo 11 only had twenty seconds of fuel left when it landed. |
66 |
12 |
1.0450 |
1971518 |
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue light, and the cooler st... |
103 |
17 |
1.1080 |
1971520 |
A full moon always rises at sunset. |
35 |
6 |
1.2722 |
1971521 |
A syzygy occurs when three astronomical bodies line up. |
55 |
8 |
0.8304 |
1971522 |
The first computer ever made was called ENIAC. A silicon chip a quarter-inch squ... |
166 |
3 |
0.8322 |
1971523 |
The first computer ever made was called ENIAC. |
46 |
10 |
1.0371 |
1971526 |
When CBS broadcast the first television show in color, no one other than CBS own... |
106 |
6 |
0.9120 |
1971527 |
All snow crystals are hexagonal. |
32 |
8 |
0.7382 |
1971528 |
The billionth digit of pi is nine. |
34 |
4 |
0.8989 |
1971529 |
A jumbo jet uses four thousand gallons of fuel to take off. |
59 |
4 |
0.9893 |
1971530 |
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the distance of the Wright Brothers' firs... |
89 |
3 |
0.9380 |
1971531 |
The tail section of an airplane gives the bumpiest ride. |
56 |
2 |
0.8995 |
1971532 |
The condensed water vapor left by jets in the sky is called a contrail. |
71 |
4 |
0.9044 |
1971533 |
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad... |
103 |
5 |
0.8873 |
1971534 |
A large, flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond. |
80 |
3 |
1.1552 |
1971535 |
Gold was the first metal to be discovered. |
42 |
6 |
1.2738 |
1971536 |
South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's gold. |
53 |
4 |
1.2079 |
1971537 |
Bamboo is the world's tallest grass and can grow up to ninety centimeters in a d... |
83 |
6 |
0.9880 |
1971539 |
The Siberian Larch accounts for more than 20 percent of all the world's trees. |
78 |
2 |
0.9714 |
1971541 |
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest ta... |
106 |
5 |
0.8243 |
1971542 |
The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. |
40 |
7 |
1.1840 |
1971543 |
Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees. |
65 |
2 |
0.8888 |
1971544 |
It takes one twenty year old tree to produce seven hundred paper grocery bags. |
78 |
8 |
1.1308 |
1971545 |
The average life of a nuclear power plant is forty years. |
57 |
9 |
0.9462 |
1971546 |
All organic compounds contain carbon. |
37 |
4 |
1.0444 |
1971548 |
Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. |
61 |
1 |
0.5697 |
1971549 |
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produc... |
142 |
6 |
1.0994 |
1971550 |
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. |
67 |
7 |
0.8222 |
1971551 |
Methane gas is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the m... |
107 |
3 |
1.1206 |
1971552 |
There are five trillion atoms in one pound of iron. |
51 |
5 |
1.0987 |
1971556 |
The 111th element is known at unnilenilenium. |
45 |
2 |
0.6923 |
1971558 |
Marie Curie discovered radium. |
30 |
6 |
0.6866 |
1971559 |
Water expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts. |
54 |
5 |
1.2382 |
1971560 |
Hot water is heavier than cold. |
31 |
8 |
0.7322 |
1971561 |
An iceberg contains more heat than a match. |
43 |
4 |
0.9043 |
1971562 |
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is t... |
91 |
5 |
1.0841 |
1971563 |
Two and five are the only prime numbers that end in two or five. |
64 |
6 |
1.0544 |
1971564 |
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to power a TV for three hours. |
74 |
1 |
1.2147 |
1971565 |
Iron nails cannot be used in oak because the acid in the wood corrodes them. |
76 |
6 |
1.0129 |
1971566 |
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liqu... |
125 |
2 |
1.0851 |
1971567 |
Stainless steel was discovered by accident in 1913. |
51 |
1 |
1.3661 |
1971568 |
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900's, more than half the people in... |
116 |
3 |
0.8952 |
1971569 |
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes more than twenty minu... |
92 |
2 |
1.0347 |
1971570 |
The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond. |
45 |
8 |
1.0668 |
1971571 |
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: one-hundreth of a second. Thus the saying, "I... |
107 |
1 |
0.7179 |
1971572 |
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: one-hundreth of a second. |
60 |
4 |
0.7185 |
1971573 |
A baby baleen whale depends on its mother's milk for at least six months. |
73 |
5 |
1.0444 |
1971574 |
A baby blue whale is twenty-five feet long at birth. |
52 |
4 |
1.0205 |
1971575 |
A baby caribou is so swift it can outrun its mother when it is only three days o... |
83 |
4 |
1.0201 |
1971576 |
A baby platypus remains blind after birth for eleven weeks. |
59 |
1 |
0.8329 |
1971577 |
A baby beaver stays with its parents for a period of two years. |
63 |
8 |
1.2365 |
1971578 |
A baby giraffe is about six feet tall at birth. |
47 |
7 |
1.0796 |
1971579 |
A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill more than two thousand bottles a day. |
82 |
8 |
1.2452 |
1971580 |
It takes forty-two days for an ostrich egg to hatch. |
52 |
7 |
0.9207 |
1971581 |
It takes twenty four hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its sh... |
84 |
6 |
0.9792 |
1971582 |
To be called a mammal, the female must feed her young on milk she has produced. |
79 |
7 |
1.1705 |
1971583 |
Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex. |
72 |
1 |
1.0532 |
1971584 |
Kangaroos usually give birth to one young annually. Their young are called joeys. |
81 |
4 |
0.8653 |
1971585 |
Kangaroos usually give birth to one young annually. |
51 |
2 |
0.8759 |
1971586 |
Kangaroos young are called joeys. |
33 |
3 |
1.0078 |
1971587 |
The female blue crab can lay up to one million eggs in a day. |
61 |
4 |
0.8157 |
1971588 |
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instea... |
97 |
1 |
0.8486 |
1971589 |
A dragonfly has a life span of four to seven weeks. |
51 |
3 |
1.1805 |
1971590 |
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to ten feet in length. |
67 |
1 |
0.7868 |
1971591 |
Caterpillars have about four thosand muscles. Humans, by comparison, have only a... |
97 |
1 |
0.5642 |
1971592 |
Caterpillars have about four thosand muscles. |
45 |
1 |
0.4353 |
1971593 |
Humans have only about six hundred muscles. |
43 |
7 |
0.8716 |
1971594 |
Butterflies taste with their hind feet. |
39 |
4 |
1.2085 |
1971595 |
The mudskipper fish can actually walk on land. |
46 |
7 |
1.0064 |
1971596 |
Minnows have teeth in their throats. |
36 |
6 |
0.7791 |
1971598 |
Walking catfish of Florida can stay out of water for eighty days. |
65 |
4 |
1.0269 |
1971599 |
Sea sponges are used in drugs for treating asthma and cancer. |
61 |
1 |
0.6104 |
1971600 |
A scallop has a total of thirty five eyes, which are all blue. |
62 |
2 |
1.0429 |
1971601 |
The largest species of seahorse measures eight inches long. |
59 |
7 |
0.9919 |
1971602 |
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. |
45 |
3 |
1.1998 |
1971603 |
Shrimp swim backward. |
21 |
10 |
0.9630 |
1971604 |
A fifteen year old tuna is estimated to travel one million miles in its lifetime. |
81 |
3 |
1.1239 |
1971605 |
Tuna will suffocate if they ever stop swimming. They need a continual flow of wa... |
136 |
1 |
0.9121 |
1971606 |
Tuna will suffocate if they ever stop swimming. |
47 |
2 |
1.0996 |
1971607 |
Tuna need a continual flow of water across their gills to breathe, even while th... |
88 |
3 |
1.0149 |
1971609 |
The killer whale, or orca, is the fastest sea mammal. |
53 |
6 |
1.1742 |
1971610 |
An orca can reach speeds up to thirty four miles per hour in pursuit of prey. |
77 |
4 |
1.1959 |
1971611 |
Measuring about eight feet at birth, killer whale bulls can grow to twenty five ... |
115 |
4 |
1.1141 |
1971612 |
Jellyfish are made up of more than 95 percent water and have no brain, heart, or... |
106 |
3 |
1.0905 |
1971613 |
An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets really hungry. |
58 |
1 |
0.9038 |
1971614 |
You can cut up a starfish into pieces, and each piece will grow into a completel... |
95 |
13 |
0.9630 |
1971615 |
Sharks' fossil records date back more than twice as far as those of the dinosaurs. |
82 |
6 |
1.0049 |
1971616 |
Sharks can travel up to forty miles per hour. |
45 |
4 |
1.2204 |
1971617 |
There once were more sea lions on Earth than people. |
52 |
6 |
1.1625 |
1971618 |
Seals can sleep underwater and surface for air without even waking. |
67 |
6 |
1.1775 |
1971619 |
Seals must teach their young how to swim. |
41 |
4 |
1.0726 |
1971620 |
The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air. |
81 |
2 |
1.2891 |
1971621 |
It is estimated that manatees live a maximum of fifty to sixty years. |
69 |
1 |
0.5561 |
1971622 |
Sea otters inhabit water but never get wet because they have two coats of fur. |
78 |
7 |
1.1445 |
1971623 |
The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to forty five miles per h... |
84 |
8 |
1.0793 |
1971624 |
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump. |
48 |
6 |
1.1411 |
1971625 |
There are more than 150 breeds of horses in the world. |
54 |
6 |
1.0730 |
1971626 |
The only purple animal is the South African Blesbok. |
52 |
4 |
1.0691 |
1971627 |
There are fewer than one thousand giant pandas left alive in the world. |
71 |
3 |
1.2109 |
1971628 |
The giant flying foxes that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet. |
80 |
3 |
0.9547 |
1971629 |
Giant tortoises can live to be 150 years old or older. |
54 |
6 |
1.1248 |
1971630 |
Of all the animals in the world only mice, whales, elephants, giraffes, and huma... |
109 |
6 |
0.7657 |
1971631 |
The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty five pounds, is two feet long, and... |
116 |
1 |
0.9766 |
1971632 |
An armadillo can walk underwater. |
33 |
4 |
1.0455 |
1971635 |
To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie themselves together ... |
90 |
8 |
1.0351 |
1971650 |
August is the month when most babies are born. |
46 |
3 |
1.0679 |
1971651 |
You share a birthday with at least nine million other people in the world. |
74 |
7 |
1.2350 |
1971690 |
If cars had been around in T. rex's day, its bite could have dented the metal. |
78 |
3 |
0.8608 |
1971831 |
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a... |
94 |
1 |
1.2852 |
1971832 |
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a... |
116 |
2 |
1.0056 |
1971833 |
...a new nation, conceived in Liberty... |
40 |
2 |
0.9060 |
1971834 |
...a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all... |
103 |
5 |
0.9769 |
1971835 |
...dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. |
63 |
1 |
0.6934 |
1971837 |
...and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall ... |
106 |
6 |
1.0684 |
1971839 |
The Constitution of the United States consists of the original, framed in 1787, ... |
122 |
1 |
0.9373 |
1971841 |
That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled... |
136 |
4 |
0.8488 |
1971844 |
Our government rests in public opinion. |
39 |
5 |
1.1006 |
1971845 |
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I a... |
124 |
1 |
0.8910 |
1971848 |
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. |
79 |
2 |
1.0735 |
1971849 |
To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and p... |
89 |
8 |
0.9104 |
1971896 |
Where I grew up as a kid, the woods held magical things. |
56 |
2 |
1.1751 |
1971899 |
We found snake skins, real Indian arrowheads and box turtles. |
61 |
2 |
0.7764 |
1971900 |
We found snake skins. |
21 |
11 |
1.1859 |
1971901 |
We saw gravestones so old we could no longer read the names on them. |
68 |
2 |
1.0626 |
1971902 |
But today I'm glad to know that something of mine was left behind in Marshfield. |
80 |
3 |
0.9881 |
1971903 |
I liked having the same name as my father. |
42 |
4 |
1.4159 |
1971904 |
I liked having the same name as my father, but it did cause confusion in the hou... |
83 |
3 |
0.9196 |
1971905 |
School is not like home. You've got to follow the rules there, or else you'll ge... |
93 |
2 |
1.1016 |
1971906 |
School was fine for a kid like me, because I knew how to shut up and listen. But... |
171 |
5 |
0.9026 |
1971907 |
School was fine for a kid like me, because I knew how to shut up and listen. |
76 |
6 |
0.9951 |
1971908 |
But it seemed wrong to take an outside kid like Jimmy and lock him inside for si... |
94 |
5 |
1.1231 |
1971912 |
When it got dark we ran through the neighborhood playing until bats began to app... |
95 |
1 |
1.0686 |
1971913 |
The kitchen was the heart of our house, and the baby's playpen stood in the cent... |
98 |
9 |
1.0335 |
1971915 |
I knew how to pick up the baby and tell if its diaper was dirty or clean by how ... |
94 |
7 |
1.1288 |
1971916 |
Whenever he got in trouble, Mom made him sit under the kitchen table so she coul... |
101 |
1 |
1.1629 |
1971918 |
It was a perfect Marshfield morning, sunny and warm. The air had a salty tang th... |
164 |
5 |
1.0493 |
1971919 |
When Andy laughed, the whole world lit up, like the sun coming from behind a clo... |
83 |
3 |
1.1247 |
1971921 |
He pointed to three little kids trying to dig a wall to protect a sand castle. |
78 |
6 |
1.1600 |
1971922 |
The tide was coming in fast and the castle was in big trouble. |
62 |
3 |
1.0221 |
1971923 |
When that arrow brushed past my ear it made a soft hissing sound, as if my ances... |
114 |
3 |
1.0205 |
1971924 |
When that arrow brushed past my ear it made a soft hissing sound. |
65 |
8 |
1.2336 |
1971926 |
But the most horrifying thing was when the headless chicken got up and started r... |
121 |
4 |
1.0766 |
1971927 |
It ran for fifteen or twenty seconds before it finally keeled over for good. |
76 |
8 |
1.1032 |
1971928 |
This neighborhood felt like my bones, my skin. |
46 |
4 |
0.8378 |
1971929 |
We made our final trip to Rexhame Beach. Jimmy found a dead sand shark that had ... |
222 |
2 |
1.0403 |
1971930 |
We made our final trip to Rexhame Beach. |
40 |
8 |
0.8435 |
1971931 |
Jimmy found a dead sand shark that had washed up on shore. |
58 |
7 |
1.1997 |
1971932 |
He ran back to our blanket to get his pocket knife and cut open the shark's bell... |
122 |
3 |
1.0657 |
1971933 |
I had lived in that house in Marshfield practically my whole life, and it never ... |
137 |
5 |
0.8588 |
1971934 |
My friends picked up big clumps of pine needles and started sprinkling them over... |
89 |
3 |
1.0993 |
1971936 |
Bits of light danced in the deep forest shadows around me. I knew I'd never forg... |
164 |
3 |
1.0255 |
1971937 |
Bits of light danced in the deep forest shadows around me. I knew I'd never forg... |
94 |
13 |
1.0273 |
1971938 |
Then I stood up and stepped into my new life, whatever that might be. |
69 |
6 |
0.9890 |
1971939 |
Bits of light danced in the deep forest shadows around me. |
58 |
9 |
1.0660 |
1971940 |
I knew I'd never forget that place. |
35 |
4 |
1.0618 |