Fact Book

2395. Fact

The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.

2396. Fact

The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients.

2397. Fact

The 'L.L.' in L.L. Bean stands for 'Leon Leonwood'.

2398. Fact

The largest apple pie ever baked was 40 x 23 feet

2399. Fact

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

2400. Fact

The largest crossword puzzle ever contained 82,951 squares. It had 12,489 clues across, and 13,125 down. It was created by Robert Turcot, from Quebec.

2401. Fact

The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.

2402. Fact

The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.

2403. Fact

The last dodo bird died in 1681.

2404. Fact

The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.

2405. Fact

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.

2406. Fact

The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

2407. Fact

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.

2408. Fact

The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three.

2409. Fact

The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.

2410. Fact

The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."

2411. Fact

The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

2412. Fact

The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

2413. Fact

The lining of your digestive system is shed every 3 days.

2414. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : dhondo keshav karve
educationist, social reformer
Year : 1958
Region : maharashtra.

2415. Fact

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

2416. Fact

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2417. Fact

The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

2418. Fact

The longest recorded lifespan of a camel was 35 years, 5 months

2419. Fact

The longest recorded lifespan of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.

2420. Fact

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

2421. Fact

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

2422. Fact

The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess

2423. Fact

The Los Angeles Rams were the first U.S. football team to introduce emblems on their helmets.

2424. Fact

The lungfish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.

2425. Fact

The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

2426. Fact

The male gypsy moth can 'smell' the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

2427. Fact

The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk.

2428. Fact

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original 'Halloween' was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

2429. Fact

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

2430. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : govind ballabh pant
freedom fighter, jurist home minister
Year : 1957
Region : uttar pradesh (now uttarakhand).

2431. Fact

The Milky Way's nearest neighbour is 4.3 million light years away - a hundred million times further then the Moon. It is a three-star cluster known as Alpha Centauri.

2432. Fact

The Mongol emperor Genghis Khan's original name was Temujin.

2433. Fact

The Monoliths all have proportional sizes of 1x4x9

2434. Fact

The Monoliths reproduce at a rate of one every 2 minutes

2435. Fact

The most collect calls are made on Father's Day.

2436. Fact

The most common letters in english are R S T L N E

2437. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : jawaharlal nehru
first prime minister, freedom fighter, author.
Year : 1955
Region : uttar pradesh.