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10622. Fact
Europeans in the Middle Ages used to call coffee the Arabic Wine
10623. Fact
One ton of grapes can produce 720 bottles of wine
10624. Fact
It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
10625. Fact
Lenny Kravitz's mother played the part of 'Helen'on 'The Jeffersons'.
10626. Fact
In ancient Rome it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.
10627. Fact
The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as twenty-five minutes
10628. Fact
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
10630. Fact
96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
10631. Fact
A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea
10632. Fact
There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes.
10635. Fact
Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series
10638. Fact
There are over 1,800 known species of fleas
10639. Fact
The rumble that is created when a Harley's engine runs has been patented by the company
10640. Fact
Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, was the first and only foreign-born first lady.
10641. Fact
The water in the Great Salt Lake of Utah is more than four times as salty as any ocean.
10642. Fact
Marie Owen was the first policewoman in the United States. She started her career in Detroit in 1893.
10643. Fact
Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.
10644. Fact
Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates
10645. Fact
In the U.S., over 35 million people have used some sort of illegal drug in the last year
10646. Fact
The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is 12 years.
10647. Fact
The turtle has the lowest pulse rate of any animal: 13 beats per minute.
10648. Fact
Subbookkeeper is the only word with four pairs of double letters in a row.
10649. Fact
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. For a human, that would be equivalent to jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes...lucky pig... can you imagine??)
10651. Fact
Only 1 person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older.
10654. Fact
Eliminates static cling from pantyhose. Rub a damp, used sheet of Bounce over the hose.
10655. Fact
The Black Hole, 1979, was Disney's first PG-rated movie.
10656. Fact
The unique characteristics of Barbie dolls in Japan are that they have their lips closed with no teeth showing
10657. Fact
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
10658. Fact
Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair.
10659. Fact
Most women are sensitive to feather light touches and find them very erotic.
10660. Fact
The 'L.L.'in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.
10661. Fact
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515
10663. Fact
The fins of the Spiny Dogfish Shark are sometimes used as sandpaper for wood products
10664. Fact
Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
10665. Fact
Most marine fish can survive in a tank filled with human blood.
10666. Fact
Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state
10668. Fact
The most popular Hot Wheels vehicle sold is the Corvette
10669. Fact
Pears ripen from the inside out, and according to a survey, men prefer hard pears while women prefer soft pears.
10670. Fact
US Presidents who owned slaves: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant.
10671. Fact
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At first, cinderella's shoes were made of leather but when the folktale was written down in the 16th century, the french words "vair" and "verre" were mixed up. The first means skin and the latter means glass.
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