Fact Book
10346. Fact
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?" It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
10347. Fact
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infrared and ultra-violet light.
10348. Fact
The first lighthouse built in the USA was in Boston, MA in 1716
10350. Fact
In America, approximately 20% of children between the ages of 2 - 7 have televisions in their rooms
10351. Fact
India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century
10352. Fact
Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's had the middle name of Stucklefuss.
10353. Fact
Unprosperousness is the longest word in which every letter occurs at least twice.
10354. Fact
Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excesseive use of alcohol
10355. Fact
There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
10356. Fact
In the 1960 movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used to show the blood in the shower scene
10357. Fact
French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon
10358. Fact
Top corporate executives take separate planes in case one crashes.
10359. Fact
Battle Creek, Michigan is referred to as the Cereal Bowl of America. The city produces the most breakfast cereals than any other city in the world
10361. Fact
Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash
10362. Fact
A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle
10363. Fact
Warren G. Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska.
10364. Fact
There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left
10365. Fact
Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night.
10366. Fact
It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
10367. Fact
William Shakespeare used a vocabulary of 29,066 different words. By way of comparison, the average person uses about 8,000 different words.
10368. Fact
The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones
10369. Fact
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
10370. Fact
Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
10371. Fact
The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose
10372. Fact
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America (not China), in 1918, by Charles Jung
10373. Fact
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
10374. Fact
Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first ever college football game. At the time, a touchdown was worth only two points.
10375. Fact
Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
10376. Fact
The thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feet
10377. Fact
Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas
10378. Fact
Pregnant female polar bears will not eat for several months while resting in her den under the snow.
10379. Fact
Orca (killer) whales can grow to 30ft long.
10380. Fact
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
10381. Fact
In 1972, a gorilla by the name of Koko was taught ASL (American Sign Language) for the deaf. By the year 2000, the gorilla could understand approximately 2,000 English words
10382. Fact
On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand 1 and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.
10383. Fact
In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet
10384. Fact
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
10385. Fact
Steve Young, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback, is the great-great-grandson of Mormon leader Brigham Young.
10387. Fact
The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps.
10388. Fact
Nearly 50% of the world s scientists are assigned to military projects.
10390. Fact
The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink
10391. Fact
Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. Kennedy for Profiles in Courage
10392. Fact
Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as humans. Their lips are prehensile, their tongues are 21 inches long, and they cannot cough.
10393. Fact
X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
10394. Fact
Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous
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Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
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