Fact Book
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
10395. Fact
The Academy Award was rumored to have gotten its nickname of Oscar for its resemblance to a film librarian's Uncle Oscar.
10396. Fact
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
10397. Fact
An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day
10398. Fact
There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.
10399. Fact
Prevents musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
10400. Fact
There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.
10401. Fact
Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world.
10402. Fact
The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface.
10404. Fact
Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven
10405. Fact
The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile
10406. Fact
Poor whites in Florida and Georgia are called crackers. They got the name from their principal staple food, cracked corn. Another theory states that the name comes from the days when they would drive cattle southward using the crack of their bullwhips to keep the animals in line and moving.
10407. Fact
Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes
10408. Fact
There are no clocks or windows in any casino.
10409. Fact
Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing. Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar and pollen is located
10410. Fact
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
10411. Fact
In 1865 opium was grown in the state of Virginia and a product was distilled from it that yielded 4 percent morphine. In 1867 it was grown in Tennessee: six years later it was cultivated in Kentucky. During these years opium, marijuana, and cocaine could be purchased legally over the counter from any druggist.
10412. Fact
A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks
10414. Fact
The average person's hair will grow approximately 590 inches in a lifetime.
10415. Fact
When the Statue of Liberty was moved from France to the United States, 214 crates were used to transport it. The Statue was also reduced to 350 pieces
10416. Fact
In China, pancakes are generally served as side dishes. They are stuffed with meat, bean sprouts, and other vegetables
10417. Fact
Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
10418. Fact
The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer
10419. Fact
A species of dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers in South Asia. These dolphins have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of their body
10420. Fact
Coca-cola used to use the slogan Good to the last drop, in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House
10421. Fact
The largest living organism ever found is a honey mushroom, Armillaria ostoyae. It covers 3.4 square miles of land in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, and it's still growing.
10422. Fact
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
10423. Fact
Jacksonville, Florida has the largest total area of any city in the United States. It takes up 460 square miles, almost twice the area of Los Angeles.
10424. Fact
Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.
10425. Fact
55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year
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The longest bout of sneezing recorded was by Donna Griffith. It began in January 13 1981 and continued until September 16 1983 and lasted for 978 days
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