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

5587. Fact

Dogs can't decifer size. Thats why little dogs are mean.

5588. Fact

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.

5589. Fact

The city of Las Vegas has the most hotel rooms in the world

5590. Fact

In the United States, lightning hits the ground 40 million times a year.

5591. Fact

The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year.

5592. Fact

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.

5593. Fact

The average home size in the United States is now 2,200 square feet, up from 1,400 square feet in 1970, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

5594. Fact

In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year

5595. Fact

Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.

5596. Fact

Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. Chocolate contains a chemical theobromine, which is poisonous to dogs

5597. Fact

Only six baseball teams remain from the original National League, which was founded in 1876.

5598. Fact

An Estee Lauder perfume called Country Mist had disappointing sales in Germany where the word Mist was slang for manure!

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