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.

2728. Fact

When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop--even you heart.

2729. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : m. g. ramachandran
posthumous, chief minister-tamil nadu, actor
Year : 1988
Region : tamil nadu.

2730. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : khan abdul ghaffar khan
first non-citizen, freedom fighter
Year : 1987
Region : pakistan.

2731. Fact

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

2732. Fact

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.

2733. Fact

While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

2734. Fact

Whitby has more doughnut shops per capita than any other place in the world.

2735. Fact

Whoopi Golberg’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.

2736. Fact

Who's that playing the piano on the "Mad About You" theme? It's Paul Reiser himself.. And Greg Evigan sang the "My Two Dads" theme.

2737. Fact

Why do puppies lick your face? They're instinctively looking for scraps of food.

2738. Fact

Why do puppies lick your face? They’re instinctively looking for scraps of food.

2739. Fact

Wilma Flinestone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

2740. Fact

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

2741. Fact

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubbles' maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

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