Fact Book

The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money.

The heavy tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773, which caused the Boston Tea Party, resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. Drinking coffee was an expression of freedom.

10488. Fact

Jennifer Aniston's original name is Jennifer Anastassakis.

10489. Fact

Stalks of sugar cane can reach up to 30 feet

10490. Fact

The term devil's advocate comes from the Roman Catholic Church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.

10491. Fact

To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets

10492. Fact

More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.

10493. Fact

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

10494. Fact

The stormtroopers in the original starwars are seen in many seen carrying long blasters. On closer inspection you can see that the blasters are actually WWII era German MG42 machine guns (modified slightly).

10495. Fact

The first motion picture copyrighted in the United States showed a man in the act of sneezing.

10496. Fact

The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest waterfall in the world, its waters drop from over 3,200 feet.

10497. Fact

The official definition of a desert is any land that where more water evaporates than is acquired through precipitation.

10498. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Iraq : yi

10499. Fact

Underfund and underground are the only two English words which start and finish with und.

10500. Fact

In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways

10501. Fact

Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named Sportsman of the Year by magazine Sports Illustrated two times

10502. Fact

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia

10503. Fact

The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash

10504. Fact

By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle

10505. Fact

The period at the end of this sentence can hold 2,000,000 hydrogen atoms.

10506. Fact

The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.

10507. Fact

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is one of the few places in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane

10508. Fact

The average American consumes 1.2 pounds of spider eggs a year and eat 2.5 pounds of insect parts a year. (This fact and the one prior to it have been judged as urban legends by many)

10509. Fact

Research indicates that babies who suck on pacifiers are more prone to ear aches

10510. Fact

Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger

10511. Fact

Skippy Peanut Butter is sold more in the world than any other peanut butter

10512. Fact

The most common name in the world is Mohammed

10513. Fact

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head

10514. Fact

There are songs in all of Shakespeare's plays except The Comedy of Errors.

10515. Fact

There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).

10516. Fact

The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.

10517. Fact

There is no such thing as a banana tree. Bananas grow on plants.

10518. Fact

All penguins live south of the equator

10519. Fact

On average, you would need 12.5 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream

10520. Fact

The most famous movie theatre is the Chinese Theatre located in Los Angeles, USA

10521. Fact

The average cow produces about 2,305 gallons of milk each year

10522. Fact

There is a dog museum in St. Louis, Missouri

10523. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Iran : ep

10524. Fact

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know your there

10525. Fact

Iceland was the first country to legalize abortion in 1935.

10526. Fact

It is said that grapefruit got its name because it grows like grapes in clusters. One cluster can have up to 25 grapefruits

10527. Fact

Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell

10528. Fact

The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal

10529. Fact

Thousands of people watched the Battle of Bunker Hill take place. People in the Boston area sat on rooftops, in trees, on church steeples, and in the rigging of ships in the harbor to watch the American revolutionaries battle the British.

10530. Fact

7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl

10531. Fact

1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life

10532. Fact

One pound of maple syrup can make eight pounds of candy or sugar

10533. Fact

When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born

10534. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Indonesia : pk

10535. Fact

The coconut is the largest seed in the world