Fact Book
1802. Fact
It is possible to see a rainbow at night!
1803. Fact
It it illegal to eat oranges while bathing in California
1804. Fact
It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979.
1805. Fact
It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1806. Fact
It takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown.
1807. Fact
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
1808. Fact
It takes a half a gallon of water to make macaroni and a gallon of water to clean the pot.
1809. Fact
It takes a person 15 to 20 minutes to walk once around the Pentagon.
1810. Fact
It takes about 142.18 licks to reach the center of a tootsie pop
1811. Fact
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
1812. Fact
It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.
1813. Fact
It takes an average of 48 to 100 tries to solve a rubix cube puzzle
1814. Fact
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
1815. Fact
It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
1816. Fact
It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound
1817. Fact
It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.
1818. Fact
It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
1819. Fact
It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.
1820. Fact
It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
1821. Fact
It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
1822. Body Facts
Sometimes, if a person's eye comes out of its socket in an accident and dangles on their cheek, they can push it back in with no lasting ill effects – don't try it at home!
1823. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
1824. Fact
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
1825. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back
1826. Fact
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
1827. Fact
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
1828. Fact
It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister’s daughter.
1829. Fact
It's a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister's daughter.
1830. Fact
It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.
1831. Fact
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.
1832. Fact
It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
1833. Body Facts
If you laid out the airways in your lungs in a long line they would stretch over 2,400 kilometres (1,500 miles).
1834. Fact
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
1835. Fact
J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.
1836. Body Facts
Roundworm is the most common gut parasite in the world. It looks rather like an earthworm, and you can catch it by eating food contaminated with faeces.
1837. Fact
Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
1838. Body Facts
Danish astronomer Tyco Brahe wore a metal nose because his own fell off after he suffered from the disease syphilis.
1839. Fact
Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
1840. Body Facts
The longest tape worm ever found in a human was 33 metres (around 108 feet) long.
1841. Fact
Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately, Riddle.
1842. Fact
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000
1843. Fact
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
1844. Fact
John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
1845. Fact
Jumbo jets use 4000 gallons of fuel to take off .
1846. Fact
Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets in our solar system combined.
1847. Fact
Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!
1849. Fact
Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.
1850. Fact
Kelsey Grammar sings and plays the piano for the theme song of Fraiser.
1851. Fact
Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996.
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