3115. Fact

Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.

3116. Fact

A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.

3117. Fact

Portugal is the world's largest producer of cork.

3118. Fact

A vexillologist is an expert in the history of flags.

3119. Fact

Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book Historia de duobos amantibus in 1444.

3120. Fact

In Chinese dining, duck sauce is almost never used on duck.

3121. Fact

A typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long.

3122. Fact

Banana oil never saw a banana; it's made from petroleum.

3123. Fact

Pennies are made of 95% copper and 5% zinc.

3124. Fact

¥ Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.

3125. Fact

Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA

3126. Fact

US presidents who were survived by their fathers: John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding.

3127. Fact

Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect

3128. Fact

At sea level there are 2,000 pounds of air pressure on each square foot of your body area.

3129. Fact

An olive tree can live up to 1500 years

3130. Fact

Male koalas mark their territory by rubbing their chests on a tree. Male koalas have a dark scent gland in the middle of their chest

3131. Fact

If you suffer from iatrophobia, you're afraid of doctors.

3132. Fact

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.

3133. Fact

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

3134. Fact

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

3135. Fact

To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed.

3136. Fact

In New Jersey it is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon.

3137. Fact

Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day

3138. Fact

The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

3139. Fact

London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight in 1807.

3140. Fact

The name Lego came from the Danish word LEg Godt, which means play well.

3141. Fact

43.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

3142. Fact

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat while playng baseball, and he used to change it every two innings.

3143. Fact

Each human generates about 3.5 pounds of rubbish a day, mostly paper.

3144. Fact

Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.

3145. Fact

The reason most mosquito bites itch is because mosquitoes inject saliva into the persons skin before they suck your blood. They take it out once they are done, but if they are forced to fly away, they don't get a chance to draw the saliva out. And it is their saliva that causes the itch.

3146. Fact

The original name for basketball, as invented by Dr. James Naismith, was indoor rugby. It was one of the game's first players that started calling it basketball because of the peach baskets that acted as the original goals.

3147. Fact

The chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylzantihine

3148. Fact

An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.

3149. Fact

Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacturing of a new car.

3150. Fact

Every year, Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes.

3151. Fact

Watermelons are a popular gift to bring to a host in China or Japan

3152. Fact

The little circles of paper that are cut out after a paper has been punched by a hole puncher are called chad.

3153. Fact

The E. Coli bacterium propels itself with a 'motor' only one-millionth of an inch in diameter, a thousand times smaller than the tiniest motors built to date by man. The rotation of the bacterial motor comes from a current of protons. The efficiency of the motor approaches 100 per cent.

3154. Fact

The word Himalayas means the home of snow.

3155. Fact

Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.

3156. Fact

October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.

3157. Fact

Mickey Mouse is known as Topolino in Italy

3158. Fact

One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples

3159. Fact

In 1819, the USA purchased Florida from Spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt

3160. Fact

Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie Silence of the Lambs. She turned down the role because she found it too scary

3161. Fact

The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres.

3162. Fact

Cranberries are one of just 3 major fruits native to North America. Blueberries and Concord grapes are the other two.

3163. Fact

Americans use over 16,000 tons of aspirin a year.

3164. Fact

Sir Isaac Newton was an ordained priest in the Church of England.

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