Fact Book

A scorpion can have up to 12 eyes

The reason why locusts swarm are because when they are in groups, a hot-spot behind their hind legs is stimulated, which in turn causes their destructive nature. A large swarm of locusts can eat eighty thousand tons of corn in a day

3240. Fact

Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.

3241. Fact

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.

3242. Fact

Saudi Arabia covers an area of 830,000 sq. miles, yet there is not a single river in the whole country.

3243. Fact

Research indicates that people prefer the colour blue for their casual clothing

3244. Fact

Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints.

3245. Fact

During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo

3246. Fact

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

3247. Fact

Bumping foreheads with a hand shake is the traditional greeting in Tibet.

3248. Fact

Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died on July 4, 1934 of radiation poisoning.

3249. Fact

The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was Anna Edson Taylor. She made the journey on October 24, 1901, and escaped unhurt.

3250. Fact

Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.

3251. Fact

In Detroit, Michigan it is illegal to sleep in a bathtub.

3252. Fact

Surgeons who listen to music during operations perform better than those who don't .

3253. Fact

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

3254. Fact

In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

3255. Fact

Over it's lifetime a shark will loose as many as 50,000 teeth.

3256. Fact

When Leonardo Da Vinci was young he drew a picture of a horrible monster and placed near a window in order to surprise his father. Upon seeing the picture his father believed it to be real and set out to protect his family until the boy showed him it was just a picture. Da Vinci's father then enrolled his son in an art class.

3257. Fact

If you pet a cat 70 million times, you will have developed enough static electricity to light a 60-watt light bulb for one minute.

3258. Fact

Two-thirds of Canadians live in Quebec and Ontario

3259. Fact

New Mexico is known as the Land of Enchantment.

3260. Fact

An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

3261. Fact

The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock device.

3262. Fact

Less than one per cent of the 500 Chinese cities have clean air, respiratory disease is China's leading cause of death.

3263. Fact

In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.

3264. Fact

Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions.

3265. Fact

In 1949, forecasting the relentless march of science, Popular Mechanics said Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

3266. Fact

All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930.

3267. Fact

The Honda Accord has the highest stolen rate in the US according to NCIB.

3268. Fact

The earth is not perfectly round. Technically, it's a triaxial ellipsoid, which is to say that it's nearly spherical, but flattened at the top and bottom.

3269. Fact

In the United States only 80 miles separate the highest point of land and the lowest point in the lower 48 states. Mount Whitney on the eastern border of Sequoia National Park in California is 14,496 feet high, and a pool called Badwater in Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level.

3270. Fact

The shallowest sea is the sea of Azov. It is 13 meters at its deepest.

3271. Fact

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minnesota.

3272. Fact

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth

3273. Fact

Morphine was given its name in 1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year old German pharmacist named Friedrich Saturner. He named it after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

3274. Fact

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them

3275. Fact

The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers

3276. Fact

Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

3277. Fact

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

3278. Fact

Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.

3279. Fact

Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world