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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
10683. Fact
A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg
10684. Fact
Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world
10685. Fact
Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide
10687. Fact
The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume
10689. Fact
The first pick (by Eagles) in the first NFL draft in 1935, was Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago. He never played.
10690. Fact
The longest word in the Finnish language, that isn't a compound word, is 'epaejaerjestelmaellistyttaemaettoemyydellaensaekaeaen'. In English it means 'even with their lack of ability to disorganize'.
10694. Fact
The production of toilet paper in China began in 1391, which was used for the Emperors
10695. Fact
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
10696. Fact
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
10697. Fact
There is a certain type of Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil that inflates its thorax, which makes its head look like a head of a snake when it feels it is in danger or alarmed
10698. Fact
Taxi is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
10700. Fact
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.
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