4023. Fact

Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

4024. Fact

In golf, a 'Bo Derek' is a score of 10.

4025. Fact

In-vitro babies are born in Australia more than any other country in the world

4026. Fact

A dentist invented the Electric Chair.

4027. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : govind ballabh pant
freedom fighter, jurist home minister
Year : 1957
Region : uttar pradesh (now uttarakhand).

4028. Fact

In 1980, the only country in the world with no telephones was Bhutan.

4029. Fact

One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton.

4030. Fact

An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year

4031. Fact

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.

4032. Fact

If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

4033. Fact

Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million.

4034. Fact

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

4035. Fact

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

4036. Fact

To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice

4037. Fact

The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'.

4038. Fact

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, or silver.

4039. Fact

In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents

4040. Fact

When George Washington ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1757, he was accused of trying to win votes by plying voters with 28 gallons of rum, 50 gallons of rum punch, 46 gallons of beer and 34 gallons of wine.

4041. Fact

The platypus uses its bill to find animals that it feeds on. Its bill can sense the tiny electric fields that their preys emit

4042. Fact

The stage were the television sitcom Friends is shot on is said to be haunted

4043. Fact

The ear which the matador slices off the bull is his trophy.

4044. Fact

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day

4045. Fact

Madonna suffers from garophobia (the fear of thunder).

4046. Fact

Thirteen percent of the human population reside in deserts

4047. Fact

Roses generally need around 6 hours of sunlight to grow properly.

4048. Fact

An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.

4049. Fact

The disease-carrying mosquito, delivering encephalitis, the West Nile virus, malaria, and Dengue fever, is by far the deadliest beast in the animal world. The World Health Organization says mosquitos cause more than 2 million deaths a year worldwide.

4050. Fact

The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia - a Latin term meaning for example.

4051. Fact

The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.

4052. Fact

Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. He set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons.

4053. Fact

The movie Cleopatra cost $44 million to make in 1963. The same movie would now cost $300 million to make taking inflation into account

4054. Fact

¥ The 'You are here' arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.

4055. Fact

Crocodiles never outgrow the pool in which they live.

4056. Fact

Cat urine glows under a black-light.

4057. Fact

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.

4058. Fact

Everyone in the Middle Ages believed -as Aristotle had -that the heart was the seat of intelligence.

4059. Fact

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

4060. Fact

Baseball's home plate is 17 inches wide.

4061. Fact

In Alabama it is illegal to stab yourself to gain someone's pity.

4062. Fact

Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km.

4063. Fact

The metric system was to blame for the loss of the Mars Climate orbiter.

4064. Fact

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay.

4065. Fact

Almonds are the oldest, most widely cultivated and extensively used nuts in the world.

4066. Fact

The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in a lifetime.

4067. Fact

There are six U.S. Presidents with the first name James: Madison, Monroe, Garfield, Buchanon, Carter, Polk.

4068. Fact

In Canada it's illegal for clear or non-dark sodas to contain caffeine.

4069. Fact

The electric chair was invented by a dentist

4070. Fact

The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.

4071. Fact

The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot

4072. Fact

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

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