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.

10435. Fact

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

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.

10442. Fact

Cleopatra married two of her brothers

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

10449. Fact

Your nostrils take turns inhaling.

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.

10453. Fact

Several buildings in Manhattan, NY have their own zip code. For example the former World Trade Center has several.

10454. Fact

There are about 2 chickens for every human in the world.

10455. Fact

The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind

10456. Fact

The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer

10457. Fact

Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY

10458. Fact

Unlike other spiders that sit passively in their web, wolf spiders are hunters, actively stalking their prey.

10459. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Kuwait : 9k

10460. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Malaysia : 9m

10461. Fact

Laid end-to-end, the arteries, capillaries and veins would stretch for about 60,000 miles in the average child and would be about 100,000 miles in an adult - enough to wrap around the world nearly four times.

10462. Fact

The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday.

10463. Fact

A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs

10464. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Japan : ja

10465. Fact

On average, pigs live for about 15 years

10466. Fact

There is a law in the state of Idaho that does not permit one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that is heavier than 50 pounds

10467. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Italy : i

10468. Fact

Red is the most commonly colored vehicle involved in accidents each year.

10469. Fact

The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, which is located in the ear

10470. Fact

The first place in the western world to give women the right to vote was an island known as Man.

10471. Fact

The Super Bowl is broadcast to over 182 countries in the world

10472. Fact

There were no red colored M&Ms from 1976 to 1987

10473. Fact

The toes of mummies are wrapped individually.

10474. Fact

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the third largest city in the state.

10475. Fact

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

10476. Fact

Corn Flakes were invented after Will Keith Kellogg and his brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg set about developing a nutritious cereal for the patients of a health resort in 1890

10477. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Israel : 4x

10478. Fact

In February 1878, the first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut. The book was one page long and had fifty names in it.

Fact
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