4988. Fact

In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'Finger-lickin' good' came out as 'Eat your fingers off.'

4989. Fact

It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world

4990. Fact

Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cows

4991. Fact

The best selling chocolate syrup in the world is Hershey

4992. Fact

Commercially flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor absorption.

4993. Fact

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

4994. Fact

If your shoes squeak, it simply means that two layers of leather in the sole are rubbing together. Driving a tack through the sole will often remove the squeak.

4995. Animal Facts

Goliath birdeating spiders can grow to the size of a dinner plate and kill small birds.

4996. Fact

Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.

4997. Fact

The Lone Ranger's real name is John Reid.

4998. Fact

Romans, in the third century, believed that the lemon was an antidote for all poisons

4999. Fact

All swans in England are the property of the queen or king

5000. Fact

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

5001. Fact

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters

5002. Fact

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

5003. Fact

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

5004. Fact

If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.

5005. Fact

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

5006. Fact

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents.

5007. Fact

Alaska's annual 1,149 Iditarod race commemorates the 1925 Race for Life when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.

5008. Fact

In Kansas it is illegal to catch bullfrogs in a tomato patch.

5009. Fact

In the 14th century, the Arabs started to cultivate coffee plants. The first commercially grown and harvested coffee originated in the Arabian Peninsula near the port of Mocha.

5010. Fact

Napoleon was terrified of cats.

5011. Fact

Female condoms were initially all made of polyurethane, but newer versions may be made of nitrile or latex.

5012. Fact

Did you know there was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.

5013. Fact

In China, there is a species of yam that is used to make a dye

5014. Fact

In the United States, approximately 135 million cars travel every day on the streets, roads, and interstates.

5015. Fact

Shridhar Chillal from India is known to have the record for the longest fingernails in the world, which were each at least three feet long

5016. Fact

When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.

5017. Fact

Hippopotamuses break wind through their mouths.

5018. Fact

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

5019. Fact

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

5020. Fact

China has trained 700,000 ducks and chickens to attack at the sound of a whistle in order to fight a national plague of locusts.

5021. Fact

In July 1934, Babe Ruth paid the fan who caught his 700th career home run ball $20 to get it back.

5022. Fact

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world

5023. Fact

During the chariot scene in Ben Hur, a small red car can be seen in the distance.

5024. Fact

The word Thailand means land of the free.

5025. Fact

In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries

5026. Fact

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving

5027. Fact

After the Popeye comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States

5028. Fact

Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were invented in India.

5029. Fact

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

5030. Fact

Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.

5031. Fact

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

5032. Fact

In ohio it is illegal to run out of gas.

5033. Fact

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles

5034. Fact

George Hancock invented a new game on November 30, 1887. It was played like baseball, except a broomstick was used for a bat and a boxing glove was the ball. Since the game was played indoors, it was originally called indoor. Walter Hakanson later renamed it softball.

5035. Fact

Neither Fruit Flies nor May Flies are flies.

5036. Fact

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

5037. Fact

Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River

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