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.

5355. Fact

An apple tree is at its prime when its about 50 years old. The United States produces about 100 million barrels of apples a year. That's a lot of old trees.

5356. Animal Facts

The guanay cormorant makes its nest from dried faeces.

5357. Fact

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

5358. Fact

Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

5359. Fact

You can walk from Boston to New York City in fewer than a million steps.

5360. Fact

An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.

5361. Fact

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears. never stop growing

5362. Fact

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

5363. Fact

There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long: eye, hip, arm, leg, ear, toe, jaw, rib, lip, and gum.

5364. Fact

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

5365. Fact

The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada

5366. Fact

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.

5367. Fact

In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head

5368. Fact

Car wash attendants in San Francisco, California may not use old pairs of underwear to wash or dry vehicles.

5369. Fact

In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they are moose hunting.

5370. Fact

The average human produces 25,000 quarts of spit in a lifetime, enough to fill two swimming pools.

5371. Fact

The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water

5372. Fact

In 1926, a waiter in Budapest committed suicide. He left his suicide note in the form of a crossword and the police had to get help from the public to solve it

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