5305. Fact

Elizabeth the First suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).

5306. Fact

At Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida, on June 26, 1985, organist Wilbur Snapp played Three Blind Mice following a call by umpire Keith O'Connor. The umpire was not amused, and saw to it that Mr. Snapp was ejected from the game.

5307. Fact

The Uape Indians, who live in the Amazon, mix the ashes of their recently cremated relatives with alcohol, then all members of the family drink the mix with fond memories of the deceased

5308. Animal Facts

Plagues of flying foxes (fruit bats) can destroy a fruit orchard in a single night.

5309. Fact

Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left. However, smells can be detected more accurately when made by the left nostril

5310. Fact

Lighthouse keepers were nicknamed wickies because they tended the lamps wick

5311. Fact

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

5312. Fact

Mosquitos usually don't fly in winds more than 10 mph.

5313. Fact

Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second

5314. Fact

The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it

5315. Fact

In Idaho walking along the street with a red-tipped cane is strictly prohibited.

5316. Fact

The Arctic Tern, which is a small bird, can fly a round trip from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird

5317. Animal Facts

A cockroach can withstand more than 120 times the force of the Earth's gravity – an astronaut passes out at 12 times the pressure of gravity.

5318. Fact

Dragonfly larvae develop under the water and eject water from their anus to propel them for short distances.

5319. Fact

Astronauts grow taller in space.

5320. Fact

Carob trees do not produce fruit until they are seventy years old.

5321. Fact

The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933

5322. Fact

You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily.

5323. Fact

Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.

5324. Fact

At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour

5325. Fact

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

5326. Fact

The state flower of Texas is the Bluebonnet; the state tree is a pecan.

5327. Fact

¥ Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he didn't wear pants.

5328. Fact

The South Pole is covered with 8,850 feet of solid ice.

5329. Fact

A chicken is 75% water

5330. Fact

Brazil is the largest producers of oranges in the world

5331. Fact

The world's largest burrito weighed 4,217 lbs.

5332. Fact

The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe

5333. Fact

The word laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation.

5334. Fact

Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate

5335. Fact

Racecar spelled backwards is racecar.

5336. Fact

The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide. (Who made it? A petroleum company)

5337. Fact

A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.

5338. Fact

Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.

5339. Fact

One out of 200 women is colorblind

5340. Fact

A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing

5341. Fact

Most gemstones contain several elements; except the diamond, it's all carbon.

5342. Fact

China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.

5343. Fact

In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers

5344. Fact

In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today

5345. Animal Facts

Sharks have special organs in their snouts and elsewhere that let them detect the electric fields produced by living animals. They can then home in on the animals to eat them.

5346. Fact

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

5347. Fact

In the movie The Matrix Reloaded a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce

5348. Fact

In Lefors, Texas it is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer at any time while standing.

5349. Fact

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction. 2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.

5350. Fact

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

5351. Fact

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

5352. Fact

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth

5353. Fact

Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.

5354. Fact

The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. in 1953. That early 'Vette sold for $3,250.

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