10153. Fact

Close to 50% of the water used in a home originates from the bathroom

10154. Fact

According to National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalyan peaks to grow slightly each year

10155. Fact

One grape vine produce can produce about 20 to 30 glasses of wine

10156. Fact

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

10157. Fact

Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933.

10158. Fact

Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C

10159. Fact

Rabbits can suffer from heat stroke.

10160. Fact

Every 25 miles a car produces one pound of pollution.

10161. Fact

On average, an American home has 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials

10162. Fact

People from the United States eat the most chicken per person than anywhere else in the world

10163. Fact

The 'King Ranch'in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

10164. Fact

Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time

10165. Fact

The first ring donuts were produced in 1847 by a 15 year old baker's apprentice, Hanson Gregory, who knocked the soggy center out of a fried doughnut.

10166. Fact

Your thumb is the same length as your nose

10167. Fact

The town of Idaho Falls, Idaho, forbids anyone over the age of eighty-eight to ride a motorcycle.

10168. Fact

The United States Mint once considered producing donut-shaped coins.

10169. Fact

The size of a newly born kangaroo is 2.5 cms.

10170. Fact

In October 1986, Pepsi paid close to $840 million to Nabisco for the Kentucky Fried Chicken empire

10171. Fact

The first box of Crayola that was ever sold had the same eight colours that are sold in the box today consisting of red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown. The box was sold for a nickel in 1903

10172. Fact

Approximately 75% of human poop is made of water

10173. Fact

The average American consumes over 28 pounds of bananas each year.

10174. Fact

There are approximately 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

10175. Fact

There is a muppet named Kami that appears on the South African version of the T.V. show Sesame Street that is HIV-positive

10176. Fact

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

10177. Fact

A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.

10178. Fact

Mice will nurse babies that are not their own

10179. Fact

It's been estimated that man have been riding horses for over 3,000 years.

10180. Fact

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.

10181. Fact

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.

10182. Fact

January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time

10183. Fact

Over 500 million gallons of Kool-Aid drink are consumed each year

10184. Alloy

Alloy : monel metal
Composition : cu (70%), ni (30%)
Use : for making alkali resistant containers.

10185. Fact

The term white chocolate is a misnomer. Under Fedaral Standards of Identity, real chocolate must contain chocolate liquor. White chocolate contains no chocolate liquor.

10186. Fact

Each Jelly Belly jelly belly bean has 4 calories

10187. Fact

The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material

10188. Fact

Tony Hawk has made more money from video games and tv commercials than from skateboarding.

10189. Fact

The study of twins is known as gemellology

10190. Fact

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

10191. Fact

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

10192. Fact

St. Louis, Missouri was the first U.S. city to host the summer Olympics in 1904

10193. Fact

Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States.

10194. Fact

Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.

10195. Fact

The word limelight that is used in theatre to refer to the performers on the stage originated because before electricity was available lime was burned in a lamp, which created a white light that was directed at the performers

10196. Fact

A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it

10197. Fact

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

10198. Fact

The largest insect egg belongs to the Malaysian jungle nymph, a sticklike insect, and measures about 1.3 centimeters long larger than a peanut! (Some insects, mainly mantises and cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.)

10199. Fact

The Black Death reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.

10200. Fact

In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers

10201. Fact

A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon

10202. Fact

The drummer for ZZ Top (the only one without a beard) is named Frank Beard.

Element
Element : lawrencium
Symbol : lr
Atomic no. : 103
Melting Point (deg c) : 1627
Boiling Point (deg c) :
Discoverer : ghiorso et al. (1961)      .. More >>