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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.
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
3280. Fact
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
3281. Fact
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
3282. Fact
Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled Lie.
3283. Fact
The human heart weighs less than a pound
3284. Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : dr. b. c. roy
physician, politician, former chief minister of west bengal
Year : 1961
Region : west bengal.
3285. Fact
The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $6,400.
3286. Fact
The smallest will ever written was 3.8 cm in diameter. It had 40 words written on it and was signed by two witnesses
3287. Fact
A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.
3288. Fact
The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17
3289. Fact
Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.
3290. Fact
The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.
3291. Fact
In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.
3292. Fact
More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.
3293. Fact
Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959
3294. Fact
Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.
3295. Fact
Austria was the first country to use postcards.
3296. Fact
In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus
3297. Fact
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year
3298. Fact
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
3299. Fact
In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets
3300. Fact
A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar
3301. Fact
In 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.
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