5235. Fact

Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

5236. Fact

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.

5237. Fact

Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.

5238. Fact

Barbers are forbidden by law from shaving a man's chest in Omaha, Nebraska.

5239. Fact

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories

5240. Fact

An estimated 690 million people live in Africa

5241. Fact

Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies

5242. Fact

Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.

5243. Fact

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed (paw).

5244. Fact

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

5245. Fact

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive, so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

5246. Fact

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

5247. Animal Facts

Land leeches in Asia can drop from trees onto people and suck out so much blood the person dies.

5248. Fact

There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing

5249. Fact

68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air.

5250. Fact

Totally Hair Barbie is the best selling Barbie of all time. It sold over ten million units

5251. Fact

Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL

5252. Fact

In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.

5253. Fact

Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots.

5254. Fact

Pluto has the longest year, lasting 247 years and 256 days in Earth time (90,472 days including 61 leap years).

5255. Fact

In Massachusetts, it is unlawful to deliver diapers on Sunday, regardless of emergencies.

5256. Fact

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

5257. Fact

The basis of the Macintosh computer was Apple's Lisa which was released in 1983. This was the first system to utilize a GUI or Graphical User Interface. The first Macintosh was released in 1984.

5258. Fact

Most American car horns honk in the key of F

5259. Fact

Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells

5260. Fact

St. Patrick never really drove out any snakes from Ireland. This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland

5261. Fact

Dry ice does not melt, it evaporates.

5262. Fact

If your skin is laid flat it will cover an area of 18 square feet.

5263. Fact

The red capes used to taunt bulls in bullfights is the same shade of red as the bull's blood. That way you can't tell it is covered with the bull's blood by the end of the fight. Fight spectators like bullfighting, but not blood.

5264. Fact

Babies'eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

5265. Fact

The first Super Bowl was played in 1967. The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.

5266. Fact

The Netherlands is the lowest country in the world. An estimated 40% of its land is below sea level.

5267. Fact

If your like Jeanne Calment and live over 100, you are considered a Centurian.

5268. Fact

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not only sweat by salivating. They also sweat through the poors on their feet.

5269. Fact

In England and the American colonies the year 1752 only had 354 days. In that year, the type of calendar was changed, and 11 days were lost.

5270. Fact

A group of larks is called an exaltation

5271. Fact

Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.

5272. Fact

A Canadian tattoo artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.

5273. Fact

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.

5274. Fact

All polar bears are left handed

5275. Fact

The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

5276. Fact

The letter most in use in the English language is E and the letter Q is least used.

5277. Fact

Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

5278. Fact

Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found

5279. Fact

The 1st time the f-word was spoken in a movie was by Marianne Faithfull in the 1968 film, I'll Never Forget Whatshisname. In Brian De Palma's 1984 movie, Scarface, the word is spoken 206 times an average of once every 29 seconds.

5280. Fact

A honey bee has four wings

5281. Fact

All the platinum ever mined would fit into an average-sized living-room.

5282. Fact

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten

5283. Fact

Soil that is heated by geysers are now making it possible to produce bananas in Iceland

5284. Fact

In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma pigs less than 32 inches in length may be kept as pets provided there are no more than two in a house.

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