3701. Fact

The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr

3702. Fact

The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom.

3703. Fact

Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.

3704. Fact

Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

3705. Fact

The words volt and voltage are named for a member of the Italian nobility in the 1700s named Count Voltman.

3706. Fact

Cats cannot taste sweet things.

3707. Fact

According to Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the doctor's hands.

3708. Fact

Fog and a cloud are the same thing, only at different altitudes. Fog is simply a cloud lying on the earth, while clouds are fog floating in the sky.

3709. Fact

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

3710. Fact

Cold water weighs more than hot water.

3711. Fact

For two years, during the 1970s, Mattel marketed a doll called Growing Up Skipper. Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

3712. Fact

Florida law forbids rats to leave the ships docked in Tampa Bay.

3713. Fact

Next to man, the porpoise is the most intelligent creature on earth

3714. Fact

In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder

3715. Fact

Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies.

3716. Fact

Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You've got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link."

3717. Fact

Imperia, Italy is the home of the Agnesi Historical Museum of Spaghetti.

3718. Fact

A typist's fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.

3719. Fact

According to legend, there s a Superman in every episode of Seinfeld.

3720. Fact

The name for the sign & which represents the world and is ampersand

3721. Fact

The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

3722. Fact

Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.

3723. Fact

Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.

3724. Fact

Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.

3725. Fact

In 1903, there were originally only eight Crayola crayons in a box and they sold for five cents

3726. Fact

Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.

3727. Fact

Iron weighs more after it rusts.

3728. Fact

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

3729. Fact

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

3730. Fact

A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away.

3731. Fact

Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999

3732. Fact

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".

3733. Fact

'Vodka'is Russian for 'little water'.

3734. Fact

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

3735. Fact

In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.

3736. Fact

In Italy, espresso is considered so essential to daily life that the price is regulated by the government.

3737. Fact

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise

3738. Fact

The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

3739. Fact

Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old.

3740. Fact

More than 20,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing in action in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. This was the bloodiest one-day fight during the Civil War.

3741. Fact

The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.

3742. Fact

Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter.

3743. Fact

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

3744. Fact

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

3745. Fact

A quarter of raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.

3746. Fact

The first book published in the United States was Massachusetts Bay Colony: The Oath of a Free Man, in 1638.

3747. Fact

The longest word that can be typed on the top row of letters on a Qwerty keyboard is TYPEWRITER.

3748. Fact

In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.

3749. Fact

The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.

3750. Fact

Oak trees can live 200 or more years.

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