4909. Fact

Girls tend to sleep more soundly than boys.

4910. Fact

Hacky Sack was invented by a football player in the mid 1970's who used it to stregthen tendons he had torn in his knee.

4911. Fact

Gold leaf is attached to paper or plaster with egg whites, the same now as in ancient times.

4912. Fact

The deadliest war in history excluding World War II was a civil war in China in the 1850s in which the rebels were led by a man who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ.

4913. Fact

The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.

4914. Fact

Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.

4915. Fact

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge

4916. Fact

Capsaicin, which makes hot peppers hot to the human mouth, is best neutralized by casein, the main protein found in milk.

4917. Fact

The Xerox company was initially called the Haloid Company

4918. Fact

A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.

4919. Fact

The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles

4920. Fact

The Union ironclad, Monitor, was the first U.S. ship to have a flush toilet.

4921. Fact

At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel

4922. Fact

Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.

4923. Fact

On record, the largest iceberg ever, was larger than the country of Belgium.

4924. Fact

When cows lay down, they get up back feet first...so if you get enough people to sit on their rear end, they won't be able to stand again. Doctors use this when operating and giving shots.

4925. Fact

Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.

4926. Fact

123,000,000 cars are being driven on highways in the United States.

4927. Fact

If you were to go on vacation for eleven days, you'd have less than one million seconds to enjoy it.

4928. Fact

Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998

4929. Fact

As of 2003, there were 1.3 million pornographic websites.

4930. Fact

Julie Nixon, daughter of Richard Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower

4931. Fact

The abbreviation 'ORD' for Chicago's O'Hare airport comes from the old name 'Orchard Field.'

4932. Fact

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game

4933. Fact

Every 14 years, Saturn's rings become briefly invisible to astronomers on Earth. At that time, the plane of the rings is tipped to that of the Earth's orbit, and they are seen edge-on. Since the ring's are so thin, they can't be seen at that angle.

4934. Fact

The Chinese language does not require punctuation.

4935. Fact

Babies crawl an average of 200m a day

4936. Fact

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

4937. Fact

Death Valley, California, has a point that is 280 feet below sea level.

4938. Fact

Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

4939. Fact

The longest recorded gloved boxing match took place in 1893. Andy Bowen and Jack Burke fought for more than 7 hours. After 110 rounds, the fight was declared a draw because both Bowen and Burke were too exhausted to continue.

4940. Fact

In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.

4941. Fact

Three-hundred-million cells die in the human body every minute.

4942. Fact

Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet

4943. Fact

The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel

4944. Fact

Canada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championships. new

4945. Fact

The term throw one's hat in the ring comes from boxing, where throwing a hat into the ring once signified a challenge. Today it nearly always signifies political candidacy.

4946. Fact

The highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. It rises 22,834 feet above sea level

4947. Fact

Every year more people are killed by donkeys than in aircraft crashes.

4948. Fact

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

4949. Fact

Adelphogamy is a marriage custom in which brothers share one or several wives.

4950. Fact

The oldest cricket match was played between the USA and Canada in 1844.

4951. Fact

In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.

4952. Fact

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

4953. Fact

3% of all mammals are monogamous.

4954. Fact

The expletive, Holy Toledo, refers to Toledo, Spain, which became an outstanding Christian cultural center in 1085.

4955. Fact

The forth railway bridge is a meter longer in summer than in winter due to thermal expansion.

4956. Fact

The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be found in the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.

4957. Fact

The only MLB team to have both its city's name and its team name in a foreign language is the San Diego Padres.

4958. Fact

Half of the 40 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS are female.

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