Fact Book
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.
1852. Body Facts
A spot or pimple is caused by a waxy oil called sebum and tiny bits of dead skin collecting in a little hole in your skin. It goes black if it gets big enough to force your pore open and let air in. When bacteria start to eat away at the gunk, a red spot with nasty yellow pus inside grows.
1853. Fact
Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
1854. Fact
Kilts are not native to Scotland. They originated in France.
1855. Fact
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
1856. Fact
Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.
1857. Fact
Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
1858. Fact
Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.
1859. Fact
Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.
1860. Fact
Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).
1861. Fact
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
1862. Fact
Lee Harvey Osawald's body tag was auctioned off for $6,600
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