The Original 10 Retired Snapple Cap Facts

Picture by Sky Livingston

1, 2, 3. This is False. Goldfish have a longer attention span than an internet user.

1. A goldfish’s attention span is only three seconds.

This is True. Without an umbilical there can not be any belly button.

2. Animals that lay eggs don’t have belly buttons.

3. Beavers can hold there breathe for 45 minutes under water.

This is False. 45 minutes is a little too extreme. Beavers can only stay submerged for 15 minutes.

This is False. Slugs don’t even use a nose. Slugs use their Pneumostone (the oval bump in the middle of the body) to breathe.

4. Slugs have four noses.

5. Camels have three eyelids.

This is True. Due to the swirling sand in the desert camels use their third eyelid to act like a windshield wiper for their eyes.

This is True. A bee can buzz around from flower to flower up to 15 mph at its top speed.

6. A honey bee can fly at 15 mph.

7. A queen bee can lay 800-1,500 eggs per day

This is True. There is only one queen per hive, and she is the only one in the hive with fully developed ovaries. The bee with the blue dot on its head is the queen.

This is True. A honeybee has one eye on each side of their head and three in the center of the head.

8. A bee has five eyes.

9. The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph.This is True. A housefly clocks in at about 4.5 mph in flight.

10. Mosquitoes are attracted to people who just ate bananas.

This is True. Bananas are high in potassium which causes lactic acid to be released in the body, which is very attractive to mosquitoes.

For More

You can find the first ten and more retired under the cap Snapple Facts at the Snapple website.

The pictures to represent the retired facts in this slideshow all came from Flickr.

The Hyperlinks are the sources for True False explanation

Picture by Sky Livingston