10726. Fact

The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark

10727. Fact

¥ Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for some time. Another story states that: Mickey mouse was not named after Mickey Rooney he was made on a train ride from New York after Walt found out he didn't actually own Oswald the lucky rabbit. The mouse Walt drew was originally named Mortimor But his wife Lilly didn't like that name so she suggested Mickey and the name stuck.

10728. Fact

Pound for pound, leopards are said to be seven times stronger than humans

10729. Fact

The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls.

10730. Fact

The soldiers of World War I were the first people to use the modern flushing toilet. The inventor: Thomas Crapper.

10731. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Cameroon : tj

10732. Fact

America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla.

10733. Fact

There are, on average, 259 raisins in a box of Raisin Bran and 388 in a box of Premium Raisin Bran.

10734. Fact

In 1953, racecar driver Tim Flock raced at Nascar with a monkey in the seat beside him

10735. Fact

The biggest religious building in the world is a Hindu Temple, Angkor Wat, located in Cambodia. It was built at the end of the 11th century

10736. Fact

Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.

10737. Fact

Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

10738. Fact

The word Nazi is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party

10739. Fact

Singer Alice Cooper once had a live chicken thrown at him during a concert in Toronto. He threw the chicken back at the crowd and all the publicity surrounding the incident skyrocketed his singing career

10740. Fact

Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice

10741. Fact

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years

10742. Fact

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (This was challenged and proved wrong by the TV show Mythbusters)

10743. Fact

The shortest word in the English language with all its letters in alphabetical order is the word almost.

10744. Fact

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

10745. Fact

Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education

10746. Fact

In China, September 20 is Love Your Teeth Day.

10747. Fact

There are 48 Gutenberg Bibles still in existence. Two of them were in Germany during World War II and are missing, but many book collectors believe them to be in private collections.

10748. Fact

Abe Lincoln bought 50 cents worth of cocaine in 1860

10749. Fact

Potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum. They were a mocking response to a patron who complained that his French fries were too thick.

10750. Fact

The Pacific island of Tonga once issued a stamp that was banana shaped

10751. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Brazil : pp, pt

10752. Fact

Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances

10753. Fact

On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.

10754. Fact

There are 24 known perfect numbers. These are numbers that equal the sum of all its divisors except itself. For instance, six is the lowest of these numbers is divisible by 1, 2, or 3 and 1+2+3=6. The largest of the known perfect numbers has 12,003 digits.

10755. Fact

Pet superstores now sell about 40 percent of all pet food

10756. Fact

It took over 4 years to film Milo and Otis to get the animals to do what they were suppose to.

10757. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Bolivia : cp

10758. Fact

The low frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature. The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.

10759. Fact

The Four Freedoms by Norman Rockwell are the most widely reproduced and distributed paintings in history.

10760. Fact

The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game is called a tucket.

10761. Fact

In Korea and other East Asian countries, the age of the person is counted from conception and not physical birth

10762. Fact

The banana is the most prolific of all food plants with as many as 300 bananas growing on the same stalk.

10763. Fact

Gases that build up in your large intestine cause flatulence. It usually takes about 30 to 45 minutes for these gases to pass through your system

10764. Fact

More than 70% of men aged 18-34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month.

10765. Fact

People in France own more pets in the world per person than any other country

10766. Fact

The ancient Greeks had a fascination with the planet Mars. They attributed the planet to Ares, their god of war, because of its red colour

10767. Fact

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

10768. Fact

In 1916, Charlie Chaplin was making $10,000 a week, making him the highest paid actor of his time

10769. Fact

Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine.

10770. Fact

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church

10771. Fact

On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten time more than males do while playing sports

10772. Fact

When an orange is shown in any of the Godfather movies, this means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur.

10773. Fact

The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet

10774. Fact

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building

10775. Fact

The Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" was banned in Scotland.

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