Fact Book

Tossing coins into fountains, dates back more than 2,000 years ago.

Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

In the movie Babe, the piglet was played by over 30 different piglets they outgrew the part so quickly during the production of the film

3452. Fact

The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years

3453. Fact

A person who is lost in the woods and starving can obtain nourishment by chewing on his shoes. Leather has enough nutritional value to sustain life for a short time.

3454. Fact

Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.

3455. Fact

U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram

3456. Fact

The symbols used on playing cards were supposed to represent the four classes of men: hearts represented the clergy; spades (from the Spanish word espada, or sword) represented the warriors; clubs were originally leaves and represented the peasants; and citizens and merchants were recognized in the diamonds.

3457. Fact

In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.

3458. Fact

Babies are born without knee caps.

3459. Fact

The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

3460. Fact

The name Santa Claus is a corruption of the Dutch dialect name for Saint Nicholas Sint Klass.

3461. Fact

Another word to refer to old age is senectitude

3462. Fact

BDSM is an acronym for bondage-dominance & sado-masochism.

3463. Fact

The average medium size piano has about 230 strings

3464. Fact

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

3465. Fact

On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament

3466. Fact

Ever wonder how Swiss cheese is made? As the cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese, leaving all those holes.

3467. Fact

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest.

3468. Fact

The food that is digested in your stomach is called chyme.

3469. Fact

Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes.

3470. Fact

Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got the idea after noticing burrs were sticking to his pants after his regular walks through the woods, invented Velcro.

3471. Fact

A chameleon s tongue is twice the length of its body.

3472. Fact

The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971

3473. Fact

Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a cottony texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.

3474. Fact

When George Washington was elected President, there was a King in France, a Czar in Russia, an Emperor in China, and a Shogun in Japan. Only the office of President remained.

3475. Fact

There are more than 40 million Americans that have chronic halitosis, which is bad breath that never goes away

3476. Fact

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

3477. Fact

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

3478. Fact

There are about 6,800 languages in the world

3479. Fact

The first recipe for a lasagna type dish was found to be from a British cookbook in the 14th century. Therefore, Italians were not the first ones to come up with the popular dish as believed

3480. Fact

Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.

3481. Fact

Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas.

3482. Fact

Until the 1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves.

3483. Fact

In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.

3484. Fact

The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)

3485. Fact

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

3486. Fact

The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturday.

3487. Fact

Alfred Kinsey's studies have shown that 92% of men and 62% of women have masturbated during their lifespan.

3488. Fact

In 1976, the first eight Jelly Belly regular flavors were launched: Orange, Green Apple, Root Beer, Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Grape, and Licorice.

3489. Fact

A beaver's teeth never stop growing.

3490. Fact

If all the Oreo cookies ever sold were stacked on top of one another, they would be as high as 13.3 million Sears Towers

3491. Fact

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

3492. Fact

If it were removed from the body, the small intestine would stretch to a length of 22 feet.

3493. Fact

Kemo Sabe means soggy shrub in Navajo

3494. Fact

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.