2678. Fact

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with vaseline.

2679. Fact

UK boy's voices normally break between the ages of 13-15.

2680. Fact

Uma Thurman doesn't have a innie or an outie bellybutton, but a 'stretch'.

2681. Fact

Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und"

2682. Fact

Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

2683. Fact

Unless you have a doctor's note, its illegal to buy ice cream after 6 p.m. in Newark, New Jersey.

2684. Fact

Until 1834, it was illegal for any soldier of the U.S. Army to carry the American flag into battle.

2685. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : maulana abul kalam azad
posthumous, freedom fighter, first education minister of india
Year : 1992
Region : west bengal.

2686. Fact

Until 1893, lynching was legal in the United States.

2687. Fact

Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn’t a federal crime to assassinate the President.

2688. Fact

Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.

2689. Fact

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

2690. Fact

Until the year 1920, Canada was planning on invading the United States.

2691. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : morarji desai
former prime minister, freedom fighter
Year : 1991
Region : gujarat.

2692. Fact

Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.

2693. Fact

Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90°

2694. Fact

Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.

2695. Fact

Vegetarians fart more, but their's smell less.

2696. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : sardar vallabhbhai patel
posthumous, freedom fighter, first home minister of india
Year : 1991
Region : gujarat.

2697. Fact

'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.

2698. Fact

Vultures fly without flapping their wings.

2699. Fact

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!

2700. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : rajiv gandhi
posthumous, former prime minister
Year : 1991
Region : new delhi.

2701. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : nelson mandela
second non-citizen and first non-indian, leader of anti-apartheid movement
Year : 1990
Region : south africa.

2702. Fact

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

2703. Fact

We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

2704. Fact

weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald Mcdonald

2705. Fact

Wettest city in the U.S.; Quillayute, Wahington. Driest: Yuma, Arizona.

2706. Fact

Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.

2707. Fact

What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

2708. Fact

What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.

2709. Fact

What's the most-shoplifted book in the United States? The Bible.

2710. Fact

Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap.

2711. Fact

When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.

2712. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : b. r. ambedkar
posthumous, architect of indian constitution, social reformer, economist, scholar
Year : 1990
Region : maharashtra.

2713. Fact

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go.

2714. Fact

When Coca-Cola first appeared in China, they used characters that sounded like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, they translated as "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.

2715. Fact

When Einstein was inducted as an American, he attended the ceremony without socks

2716. Fact

When gentlemen in medieval Japan wished to seal an agreement, they urinated together, crisscrossing their streams of urine.

2717. Fact

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour.

2718. Fact

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.

2719. Fact

When intoxicated, an ant will always fall on its right side.

2720. Fact

When nobody else is around, 47% of people drink straight from the carton.

2721. Fact

When opossums are hanging upside-down, they are not playing. It is from shear terror.

2722. Fact

When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

2723. Fact

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.

2724. Fact

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city. Most car horns honk in the key of 'F'.

2725. Fact

When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau."

2726. Fact

When we see stars in the sky, we are not seeing them as they currently are, but how they were the number of light years they are away from Earth.

2727. Fact

When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.

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