Fact Book
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)
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.
2617. Fact
There are 450 hairs in an average eyebrow.
2618. Fact
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
2619. Fact
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
2620. Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : m. s. subbulakshmi
carnatic music vocalist
Year : 1998
Region : tamil nadu.
2621. Fact
There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
2622. Fact
There are four cars and ten lightposts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
2623. Fact
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
2624. Fact
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada! Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
2625. Fact
There are more chickens than people in the world.
2626. Fact
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
2627. Fact
There are more female than male millionaires in the United States.
2628. Fact
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
2629. Fact
There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
2630. Fact
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S that there are real ones.
2631. Fact
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C. Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.
2632. Fact
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
2634. Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : aruna asaf ali
posthumous, freedom fighter
Year : 1997
Region : west bengal.
2635. Fact
There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'orange'
2636. Fact
There are no words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple
2637. Fact
There are only 4 flavours of plain M&Ms
2638. Fact
There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
2639. Fact
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
2640. Fact
There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
2641. Fact
There have been about a quarter of a million Elvis sightings since his death.
2642. Fact
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
2643. Fact
There is a law firm by the name of Lawless & Linch in Jamaica.
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