Fact Book
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
first and the individual name written second
10672. Fact
To lose one pound of fat, a person has to burn approximately 3,500 calories
10673. Fact
Uranus was originally called George, in honour of King George III of Britain.
10674. Fact
Native Hawaiian women were not allowed to cook.
10675. Fact
In 1992, the Antarctic Ozone hole was larger than the continent of North America.
10676. Fact
Second string, meaning replacement or backup, comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
10677. Fact
It is believed that the Greek poet Aeschylus was killed when a bird flying overhead dropped a tortoise and struck him. Birds have been known to carry shellfish to great heights and drop them in order crack the shells.
10678. Fact
There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas
10679. Fact
The word trivia comes from the Latin trivium which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
10680. Fact
On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for Very Special Old Pale.
10682. Fact
The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo
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It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back d
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