Fact Book

4560. Fact
Sheep can detect other sheep faces like humans do. They can remember up to 50 sheep faces

4561. Fact
80% of millionaires drive used cars.

4562. Fact
Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus

4563. Fact
Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world

4564. Fact
Horses can sleep while standing upright.

4565. Fact
Penguins can leap to heights as high as six feet.

4566. Fact
During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.

4567. Fact
In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to 205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there

4568. Fact
The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles

4569. Fact
The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, the Siberian tiger has the least.

4570. Fact
Chopsticks originated from China approximately 4,000 years ago

4571. Fact
The average Hostess Twinkie is 68 percent air as measured by volume according to university researchers

4572. Fact
Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).

4573. Fact
The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon.

4574. Fact
The Great Lakes are Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

4575. Fact
The most popular name for a pet in the United States is Max

4576. Fact
Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw

4577. Fact
Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific

4578. Fact
A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.

4579. Fact
In the next seven days, 800 Americans will be injured by their jewelry.

4580. Fact
No one knows who designed the first American Flag.

4581. Fact
Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heartbreak Hotel" on "The Dorsey Brothers Show".

4582. Fact
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.

4583. Fact
In Alderson, West Virginia, it is illegal to walk a lion, tiger or leopard in the city limits, even it is on a leash.

4584. Fact
The Baltimore Orioles opened the 1988 baseball season by losing the first 21 games and 107 altogether for the entire season

4585. Fact
In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was The Pause That Refreshes.

4586. Fact
Squirrels eat through 40,000 pine cones a year.

4587. Fact
If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentance My very educated mother justed served us nine pickles, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitor, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

4588. Fact
No 2 cornflakes are identical.

4589. Fact
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.

4590. Fact
Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

4591. Fact
If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.

4592. Fact
The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand

4593. Fact
Rodents teeth never stop growing.

4594. Fact
Greece and Australia are the only countries to participate in all of the modern Olympics.

4595. Fact
If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures

4596. Fact
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.

4597. Fact
Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food

4598. Fact
Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.

4599. Fact
The only member of the British House of Commons who is not allowed to speak is the man called the Speaker of the House.

4600. Fact
Virginia law forbids bathtubs in the house; tubs must be kept in the yard.

4601. Fact
Penguins feathers are covered in fat, which helps keep them warm.

4602. Fact
The word maverick came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.

4603. Fact
The average per capita consumption of soap, in all of its uses, in the United States is about forty pounds per year.

4604. Fact
Every person has a unique eye and tongue print.

4605. Fact
A glockenspiel is a musical instrument that is like a xylophone. It has a series of metal bars and is played with two hammers

4606. Animal Facts
A ribbon worm can eat 95 percent of its own body and still survive.

4607. Fact
A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

4609. Fact
Victor Mills, an inventor with Proctor & Gamble, invented the disposable diaper in 1961 because he didn't want to deal with his daughter's soiled diapers. You know them as Pampers.

4610. Fact
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

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