3638. Fact

In Australia, the average person uses 876 gallons of water daily. In Switzerland they use only 77 gallons of water per person daily

3639. Fact

The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online

3640. Fact

A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly

3641. Fact

Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida

3642. Fact

It would take 29 million years for a car travelling 100 miles per hour to reach the nearest star

3643. Fact

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

3644. Fact

In Nicholas County, West Virginia, no member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service.

3645. Fact

Dentyne gum was invented in 1899 by a druggist from New York named Franklin V. Canning

3646. Fact

The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand

3647. Fact

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

3648. Fact

Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08.

3649. Fact

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off .

3650. Fact

The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day

3651. Fact

All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.

3652. Fact

During World War II, bakers in the United States were ordered to stop selling sliced bread for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves were made available to the public. It was never explained how this action helped the war effort.

3653. Fact

The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia

3654. Fact

The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.

3655. Fact

Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio in 1933. The first men to use FM radio to communicate with Earth from the moon's surface were named Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.

3656. Fact

Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.

3657. Fact

In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened

3658. Fact

If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

3659. Fact

Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple.

3660. Fact

The term karaoke means empty orchestra in Japanese, and the karaoke machine was designed originally to provide backing tracks for solo cabaret performers.

3661. Fact

The Nile river is 6,690 kilometers long

3662. Fact

All snow crystals are hexagonal.

3663. Fact

Fin whales are the second largest animal ever to live on earth. They have been measured to over 80 feet long in Antarctic waters.

3664. Fact

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

3665. Fact

In 1905, the first pizzeria in the U.S. opened in New York City

3666. Fact

There is a town named Dildo in the province of Newfoundland, Canada

3667. Fact

Chameleons change their color by dispersing the concentration of pigment in their skin. This is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. Color changes are determined by external factors such as light and temperature as well as emotions. They do not change color to match their background.

3668. Fact

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.

3669. Fact

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.

3670. Fact

Only 23% of New Zealand families have more than two children

3671. Fact

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

3672. Fact

Lightning strikes 6,000 times every minute on the entire planet

3673. Fact

A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.

3674. Fact

It takes a sperm about 1 hour to swim 6 inches.

3675. Fact

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year

3676. Fact

On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.

3677. Fact

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testiclesthat s where the word testimony comes from.

3678. Fact

Writing in ancient Greece hadnospacebetweenthewords.

3679. Fact

The phrase rule of thumb is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

3680. Fact

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

3681. Fact

There is a cemetery town in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1

3682. Fact

If a substance is burned and all of the results of its burning (smoke, ash, soot and gas) are captured and weighed, they will be a little heavier than the original substance because they have been combined with oxygen.

3683. Fact

In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

3684. Fact

Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

3685. Fact

In 1924, Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snuff users.

3686. Fact

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

3687. Fact

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

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