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5537. Animal Facts
Bat faeces lies so deep on the floors of their caves that people harvest it to sell as fertilizer for plants.

5538. Fact
Lake Ontario was originally named Lake St. Louis

5539. Fact
It's more likely you would be attacked by a cow than a shark.

5540. Fact
In Germany, an official approval is needed before a new born is named.

5541. Fact
Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts

5542. Fact
An average married couple makes love 98 times per year.

5543. Fact
The average adult has about 3,500 square inches of skin. The skin itself has roughly a billion pores or openings.

5544. Fact
Most women experience a heightened sensitivity towards their bodies during pregnancy.

5545. Fact
The Liberty Bell was the first mechanical slot machine, which was invented by Charles Fey, a car mechanic in 1895.

5546. Fact
¥ There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.

5547. Fact
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.

5548. Fact
In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays may be jailed.

5549. Fact
Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.

5550. Fact
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television

5551. Fact
The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.

5552. Fact
The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel

5553. Fact
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

5554. Fact
The chances of an exact duplication of fingerprints are about 64 billion to 1.

5555. Fact
Sharks are immune to cancer

5556. Fact
The first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield Street

5557. Fact
Pancakes are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Australia

5558. Fact
A mantis breeder has assured me that you preying mantis can copulate with the male's head still attached, even several times.

5559. Fact
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.

5560. Fact
Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water.

5561. Fact
We blink eyes 25 times each minute.

5562. Fact
Condoms are most frequently made of latex, but can also be made out of polyurethane.

5563. Fact
The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.

5564. Fact
Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.Click Here For More Details

5565. Fact
Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name

5566. Animal Facts
The aye-aye is a nocturnal mammal from Madagascar that has one very long, bony finger on one hand. It looks so frightening that local people believed contact with an aye-aye led to death, so they killed most of them.

5567. Fact
Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity

5568. Fact
Koala Bears are not bears.

5569. Fact
Of all the golfers in Canada, 71.4% golfers are male, 28.6% are female

5570. Fact
Pinocchio was made of pine.

5571. Fact
The football huddle started at Gallaudet University (the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf) in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting their plays.

5572. Fact
On average a business document is copied 19 times

5573. Fact
Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%

5574. Fact
Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.

5575. Fact
There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

5576. Fact
People descended from the Scottish clan of Kerr are more likely to be left handed than any other ancestrial group.

5577. Fact
The rapid rate of expansion of gas is what gives steam its power. One volume of water, at normal atmospheric pressure and at the boiling point, yields 1,670 volume of steam.

5578. Fact
The word diastema is the word for having a gap between your teeth

5579. Fact
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

5580. Fact
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs

5581. Fact
Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States.

5582. Fact
On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk

5583. Fact
Go. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

5584. Fact
South Africa used to have two official languages, now it has eleven.

5585. Fact
The are six fictional characters that have stars on Hollywood's 'Walk of Fame'.

5586. Fact
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does

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