Fact Book
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.
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.
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".
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.
3751. Fact
The act of sneezing is referred to as sternutation
3752. Fact
A honeybee can fly at fifteen miles per hour.
3753. Fact
Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans to produce chocolate.
3754. Fact
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Nixon's Secretaries of State have won Noble Peace Prizes.
3755. Fact
In Newport, Rhode Island it is illegal to smoke from a pipe after sunset.
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Did you think that the monkeys in the zoo were picking fleas off each other? Wrong; they are in fact grooming for salty skin dander.
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