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.

4959. Fact

There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.

4960. Fact

In 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on television in the U.S.

4961. Fact

The lemur of Madagascar is one of very few of the human species' ancestors that has survived unchanged down the long corridors of evolution. Having developed after the first primates, it is classified as a prosimian, meaning before monkey, and is one of the ancestors common to both monkeys and men.

4962. Fact

There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimetres long when it is born

4963. Fact

The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away

4964. Fact

The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts

4965. Fact

The little overhang of bone and feathers over an eagle's eye is there to protect the sensitive eyeball from the mountain and desert sun. It's not meant to make the bird look fierce.

4966. Fact

The reason why milk is white is because it contains a protein called Casein, which is white. Milk also contains fat, which is also white

4967. Fact

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village

4968. Fact

The following is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language: sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

4969. Fact

Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke

4970. Fact

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

4971. Fact

The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs

4972. Fact

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

4973. Fact

Whale hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma.

4974. Fact

If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world

4975. Fact

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

4976. Fact

Caterpillar means hairy cat in Old French

4977. Fact

Goats do not eat tin cans, as lampooned in cartoons. They nibble at the cans because they're after the glue on the labels.

4978. Fact

A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air

4979. Fact

A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

4980. Animal Facts

Over 100 million years ago, crocodiles were twice the size they are now – up to 12 metres (40 feet) long – and could eat dinosaurs.

4981. Fact

In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fist Deputy Postmaster General was American inventor Benjamin Franklin who was later dismissed for sympathizing with the American revolutionary cause

4982. Fact

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam

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