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

5373. Fact

Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers

5374. Fact

In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it

5375. Fact

Elvis Presley used to be a truck driver before he started singing

5376. Fact

The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.

5377. Fact

Golfers use an estimated $800 million worth of golf balls annually.

5378. Fact

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes themlooks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

5379. Fact

A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".

5380. Fact

Leonardo Divinci made sketches of a tracked armored vehicle to be used as an offensive weapon. It was pedal powered.

5381. Fact

The number 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover.

5382. Fact

The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds

5383. Fact

215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton

5384. Fact

A snail can sleep for 3 years

5385. Fact

The first jet engine was invented by Frank Whittleof of England in 1930.

5386. Fact

Panama is the only place in the world where someone can see the sun rise on the Pacific Ocean and set on the Atlantic.

5387. Fact

Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.

5388. Fact

¥ Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars.

5389. Fact

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

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