Fact Book
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
10426. Fact
Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. They were planning on playing Scrabble and realized that some of the pieces were missing so they came up with the idea of making their own game; Trivial Pursuit
10427. Fact
The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400.
10428. Fact
The tallest freestanding sculpture in the world is Chief Crazy Horse in South Dakota, USA
10429. Fact
Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.
10430. Fact
There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%
10431. Fact
Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.
10432. Fact
The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through
10433. Fact
It takes 12 honeybees to make one teaspoon of honey
10434. Fact
The U.S. Post Office handles 43 percent of the world's mail.
10436. Fact
A British term for slot machine is fruit machine or one-armed bandit.
10437. Fact
There are more collect calls on Father's Day than any other day of the year.
10438. Fact
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
10439. Fact
There's an average of of 178 sesame seeds on a Big Mac bun.
10440. Fact
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.
10441. Fact
The average coach airline meal costs the airline $4.00. The average first class meal: $50.
10443. Fact
A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938.
10444. Fact
Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
10445. Fact
Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald
10446. Fact
The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world was 129 degrees below 0 at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
10447. Fact
The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
10448. Fact
Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear
10450. Fact
In the 1905 football season, 18 men were killed in college games in the United States, and 159 more were permanently injured.
10451. Fact
Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the world
10452. Fact
The annual Night of the Radishes is held in Oaxaca, Mexico. It's held on December 23rd of every year as part of a pre-Christmas tradition. Farmers carve figures from radishes and display them in the city's main plaza.
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The word crap came from Thomas Crapper-a famous plumber in the early days of the toilet.
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