2567. Fact

The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.

2568. Fact

The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

2569. Fact

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

2570. Fact

The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.

2571. Fact

The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.

2572. Fact

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.

2573. Fact

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean

2574. Fact

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

2575. Fact

The waffle was invented on August 24, 1869

2576. Fact

The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.

2577. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : jayaprakash narayan
posthumous, freedom fighter, social reformer
Year : 1998
Region : bihar.

2578. Fact

The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.

2579. Fact

The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

2580. Fact

The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

2581. Fact

The word “Mrs.” Cannot be written in full.

2582. Fact

The word 'byte' is a contraction of 'by eight.'

2583. Fact

The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

2584. Fact

The word Mrs. Cannot be written in full.

2585. Fact

The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!

2586. Fact

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element.'

2587. Fact

The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

2588. Fact

The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish and Portuguese.

2589. Fact

The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.

2590. Fact

The world camel population is 19,627,000

2591. Fact

The world cattle population is approx. 1,294,604,000

2592. Fact

The world goat population is approx. 94,266,000

2593. Fact

The world pig population is approx. 857,099,000

2594. Fact

The world record for keeping a Polo in the mouth with the hole intact is 7 hours and 10 minutes.

2595. Fact

the world record for spitting a watermelon seed is 65 feet 4 inches .

2596. Fact

The world sheep population is approx. 1,202,920,000

2597. Fact

The World Trade Center towers used to have two zip codes, 10047-10048, one for each building.

2598. Fact

The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

2599. Fact

The world's first McSki opened in Sweden with Ski-Thru service - allowing skiers to ski up to the counter and order their McDonald's meal.

2600. Fact

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

2601. Fact

The 'y' in signs reading "ye olde.." is properly pronounced with a 'th' sound, not 'y'. The "th" sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune "thorn" to represent "th" sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case "y".

2602. Fact

The year 1987 was the 50th anniversary of Spam

2603. Fact

The youngest person to give birth was a five-yr. old tribal girl (C-Section of course)

2604. Fact

The youngest pope was 11 years old.

2605. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : chidambaram subramaniam
freedom fighter, minister of agriculture (father of green revolution)
Year : 1998
Region : tamil nadu.

2606. Fact

Their are only two types of pig: American and European

2607. Fact

There are 1,355,000 (+/- 1000) Monoliths on Jupiter in 2010: A Space Oddessy

2608. Fact

There are 1,575 steps from the ground floor to the top of the Empire State building.

2609. Fact

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States!

2610. Fact

There are 13 blimps in the world, nine are in the USA

2611. Fact

there are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a chess game.

2612. Fact

There are 18 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!

2613. Fact

There are 22 stars surrounding the mountain on the Paramount Pictures logo.

2614. Fact

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

2615. Fact

There are 333 squares of toilet paper are on a roll

2616. Fact

There are 365 steps on the front of the U.S. Capitol Building - one for every day of the year.

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