Fact Book

3785. Fact
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur

3786. Fact
Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva

3787. Fact
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

3788. Fact
On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day

3789. Fact
The average healthy human farts 16 times a day.

3790. Fact
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow made from the crushed shells of beetles.

3791. Fact
The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.

3792. Fact
The smallest stamp in the world was issued in 1863 by the Columbian state of Bolivar and measured 9.5 x 8mm

3793. Fact
Mangos are known throughout the world as the King of Fruits.

3794. Fact
Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.

3795. Fact
The town of Olney, Illinois celebrates a Squirrel Day festival to honour the 200 albino squirrels that live in the town. The festival includes a squirrel blessing by a priest

3796. Fact
The 7-Eleven Extreme Gulp is 50% bigger than the volume of the human stomach.

3797. Fact
The average weight of a newborn baby is 7 lbs. 6 oz. For a triplet baby it is 3 lbs. 12 oz

3798. Fact
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously.

3799. Fact
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.

3800. Fact
The amount of semen produced varies from a few drops to about 6 mL (a little more than 1 teaspoon).

3801. Fact
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.

3802. Fact
A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature

3803. Fact
There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow

3804. Fact
Elvis Presley was obsessed with brushing his teeth

3805. Fact
Smokey the Bear's zip code is 20252.

3806. Fact
Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

3807. Fact
The two most famous actors who portrayed the ÒMarlboro ManÓ in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.

3808. Fact
Frank Baum named Oz after a file cabinet in his office. One cabinet was labeled A to N, and the second was labeled O to Z.

3809. Fact
An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

3810. Fact
The world's first chocolate candy was produced in 1828 by Dutch chocolate-maker Conrad J. Van Houten. He pressed the fat from roasted cacao beans to produce cocoa butter, to which he added cocoa powder and sugar.

3811. Fact
The most common time for a bank robbery is Friday, between 9 and 11 a.m. The least likely time is Wednesday, between 3 and 6 p.m.

3812. Fact
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.

3813. Fact
Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow

3814. Fact
All nude people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.

3815. Fact
Adult bears can run as fast as horses.

3816. Fact
People will swallow about 8 spiders in their lifetime.

3817. Fact
During the Easter season, 600 million Marshmallow Peeps are bought my Americans. The Marshmallow Peep is the most popular Easter candy besides chocolate

3818. Fact
According to an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a half minutes.

3819. Fact
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

3820. Fact
In1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was put forward to the British Parliament

3821. Fact
The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died

3822. Fact
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as isnecessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the ste of Virginia stillhad segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks andwhites.

3823. Fact
The word checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase Shah Mat, which means, The King Is Dead.

3824. Fact
The giraffe is the only animal born with horns.

3825. Fact
Asparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purple

3826. Fact
The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney decided to make it into an animated movie

3827. Fact
Storks were a symbol of fertility in Europe and were considered to bring good luck

3828. Fact
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.

3829. Fact
The dimensions of a regulation football field are: 360 feet long and 160 feet wide.

3830. Fact
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.

3831. Fact
In North Dakota it is illegal to keep an elk in a sandbox in your backyard.

3832. Fact
Michelangelo painted only one easel picture.

3833. Fact
Per capita, the Irish eat more chocolate than Americans, Swedes, Danes, French, and Italians.

3834. Fact
Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.

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