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.

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.

3756. Fact

Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18

3757. Fact

In 1889, the 1st coin-operated telephone, patented by Hartford, Connecticut inventor William Gray, was installed in the Hartford Bank.

3758. Fact

Muhammad is the most common name in the world.

3759. Fact

The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie Psycho.

3760. Fact

In the United States, the most frequent month for a tornado to occur is in May.

3761. Fact

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

3762. Fact

In Washington D.C. it is illegal to post a notice in public which calls another person a 'coward' for refusing to accept a challenge to duel.

3763. Fact

Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were created in India.

3764. Fact

Before jets, jet lag was called boat lag.

3765. Fact

Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.

3766. Fact

If a Lobster loses an eye, it will grow another one.

3767. Fact

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

3768. Fact

Ten inches of snow equals one inch of rain in water content.

3769. Fact

Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. And, rightfully so

3770. Fact

It's been estimated that one out of every two hundred women is born with an extra nipple.

3771. Fact

From 1939 to 1942, there was a undersea post office in the Bahamas

3772. Fact

The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was Mary Kay and Johnny.

3773. Fact

Eddie Cochran's last recording before he died was Three Steps to Heaven.

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