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.

4630. Fact

The famous ship Old Ironsides actually had wooden sides.

4631. Fact

After the Eiffel Tower was built, one person was killed during the installation of the lifts. No one was killed during the actual construction of the tower

4632. Animal Facts

Cat urine glows in the dark (but it has to be very dark, if you're thinking of testing it).

4633. Fact

Snails breathe through their feet.

4634. Fact

An orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutes

4635. Fact

Barbara Bush's book about her English Springer Spaniel, Millie's book, was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks. Millie was the most popular First Dog in history.

4636. Animal Facts

Vampire bats drink half their body weight in blood every day.

4637. Fact

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls in the morning. Her doctor told her it would help improve her memory.

4638. Fact

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. They all taste sweet

4639. Fact

Scientists are now able to grow 'beating'heart tissue in a lab.

4640. Fact

Many of the stars that were in the Poltergeist Trilogy had strange deaths

4641. Fact

The five interlocking Olympic rings are black, blue, red, green, and yellow because at least one of these colors appears on every national flag.

4642. Fact

Eliminates static electricity from your television screen.

4643. Fact

In medieval Thailand, they had moveable type printing presses. The type was made from baked oxen dung.

4644. Fact

Boxing champion Gene Tunney taught Shakespeare at Yale University

4645. Fact

On September 9, 1950 dubbed laughter was used for the first time on television. It was used for the sitcom The Hank McCune Show.

4646. Fact

Ants don't sleep

4647. Fact

A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

4648. Fact

Koalas have twin thumbs.

4649. Fact

The Goliath beetle is about the size of your fist and can weigh as much as 3-4 ounces

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