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.

4611. Fact

The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

4612. Fact

The tonsillectomy is the most common surgical procedure.

4613. Fact

A group of kangaroos is called a mob

4614. Fact

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system.

4615. Fact

The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea

4616. Fact

Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain

4617. Fact

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long.

4618. Fact

There are only four words in the English language that end in -dous: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

4619. Fact

Armadillos along with humans are the other creatures that can contract leprosy.

4620. Fact

The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child

4621. Fact

Turtles can breathe through their butts

4622. Fact

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

4623. Fact

In 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.

4624. Fact

A duckðs quack doesnðt echo, and no one knows why

4625. Fact

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.

4626. Fact

A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side

4627. Fact

There are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.

4628. Fact

¥ From 1942 until the end of World War II, Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal. After the war, the winners received real replacement statues.

4629. Fact

A horse can sleep standing up.

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