4165. Fact

Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

4166. Fact

A man's capacity to get and maintain an erection decreases gradually as he ages.

4167. Fact

The numbers " 72" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

4168. Fact

A newborn koala finds its way to the mother's pouch by following a trail of saliva.

4169. Fact

Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour

4170. Fact

The only U.S. president to be born on the fourth of July was Calvin Coolidge.

4171. Fact

A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.

4172. Fact

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

4173. Fact

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

4174. Fact

In the 20th century, over three million people have died from earthquakes

4175. Fact

Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.

4176. Fact

The most common injury in bowling is a sore thumb.

4177. Fact

French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

4178. Fact

Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.

4179. Fact

Bock's Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.

4180. Fact

Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.

4181. Fact

Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.

4182. Fact

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.

4183. Fact

A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.

4184. Fact

A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph.

4185. Fact

Woodbury Soap was the first product to use a picture of a nude woman in its advertisements. In 1936, a photo by Edward Steichen showed a rear full-length view of a woman sunbathing.

4186. Fact

In 1997, Fourteen percent of the one million citizens of Nairobi, Kenya carry the AIDS virus. Some 20% of the Kenyan military is infected.

4187. Fact

One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

4188. Fact

In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.

4189. Fact

Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.

4190. Fact

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid.

4191. Fact

The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.

4192. Fact

Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system

4193. Fact

Two in every three car buyers pays the sticker price without arguing.

4194. Fact

Hondas and Toyotas are the most frequently stolen passenger cars because they have parts that can be readily exchanged between model years without a problem.

4195. Fact

Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.

4196. Fact

Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches

4197. Fact

The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.

4198. Fact

49% of men report that a woman's sense of humor is a big turn on.

4199. Fact

A real estate agent s rule of thumb: To estimate what a house will sell for, ask the owner what its worth and subtract 10%.

4200. Fact

There are over 600 different pasta shapes

4201. Fact

Elephants only sleep for two hours each day.

4202. Fact

Seattle passed an ordinance that states that goldfish could ride the city buses in bowls only if they kept still.

4203. Fact

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.

4204. Fact

During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.

4205. Fact

An unusually low sperm count is known as oligospermia, and the absence of any sperm from the semen is termed azoospermia.

4206. Fact

During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.

4207. Fact

85.7% of statisics are made up.

4208. Fact

The bands on hats trace back to the custom of knights wearing their lady loves' scarves around their helmets.

4209. Fact

Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women

4210. Fact

Carpet slippers were created by thrifty housewives who found other uses for old, worn-out pieces of carpet.

4211. Fact

There are approximately 250,000 sweat glands in your feet.

4212. Fact

The Venus flytrap feeds primarily on ants, not flies.

4213. Fact

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.

4214. Fact

The soundtrack to Oklahoma was the first album to sell one million copies on August 18, 1958.

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