Fact Book
5653. Animal Facts
Baby Komodo dragons will eat their brothers and sisters if they are hungry and there is no other food.
5654. Animal Facts
Crows are one of the few larger creatures that will eat rotting and putrid flesh.
5655. Fact
Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as Dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects.
5656. Fact
The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'. It came from the author's friends, whom he called his fwendy (friend)
5657. Fact
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process
5658. Fact
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
5659. Fact
Paul Gauguin's Marquesas Island neighbor, Tioka, bit him on the head after he died. Tioka was following a Marquesan custom of verifying the dead.
5660. Fact
Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15.
5661. Fact
In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops
5662. Fact
In Oklahoma, people who make ugly faces at dogs may be fined and/or jailed.
5663. Animal Facts
The axolotl is a pale amphibian that is part way between a tadpole and a lizard, and lives in a single lake in Mexico. Some axolotls change shape and become land creatures, but most don't ever change.
5664. Fact
Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
5665. Fact
Semen contains zinc, fructose, potassium, free amino acids, and fructose.
5666. Fact
The average person can live 11 days without water.
5667. Fact
The biggest disco ball in the world has a diameter of 2.41 meters and 137.89 kilograms. It also has 6,900 mirror squares on it
5668. Fact
A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate
5669. Fact
Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet
5670. Fact
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
5671. Fact
22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
5672. Fact
The slowest trainee on the SEALs obstacle course must wear a pink T-shirt that reads, Always a Lady.
5673. Fact
Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
5674. Fact
Alexander Graham Bell's wife and mother were both deaf .
5675. Fact
President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins.
5676. Fact
Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails
5677. Fact
If a shark's mouth is open to long it will suffocate.
5678. Fact
By law, employees do not have to wash hands after sneezing.
5679. Fact
Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to.
5680. Fact
A jellyfish is 95 percent water, and humans are about 70% water.
5681. Fact
The Great Lakes have a combined area of 94,230 square miles larger than the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont combined.
5682. Fact
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa.
5685. Fact
The Mexican Hat Dance is the official dance of Mexico
5686. Fact
Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts
5687. Animal Facts
A hissing cockroach makes a noise by squeezing air out of tiny holes in its body segments.The sound can be heard 3.7 metres (12 feet) away.
5688. Fact
In 1894 there were only 4 automobiles in the US.
5689. Fact
The lifespan of a firefly is about seven days. During these days, they are busy trying to find a mate
5690. Fact
315 entries in Webster's 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
5691. Fact
Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph
5692. Fact
Pebbles cereal was actually named after the shape of the cereal and not the Pebbles Flintstone character
5693. Fact
It is illegal to say Oh, Boy in Jonesboro, Georgia.
5694. Fact
In Arkansas it is illegal to buy or sell blue lightbulbs.
5695. Fact
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back
5696. Fact
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet
5697. Fact
The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds
5698. Animal Facts
A maggot doesn't have teeth – it oozes a kind of spit called ferment onto its food. This dissolves the food, and the maggot then sucks it up.
5699. Fact
Starfish eat by regurgitating their stomach on top of their food. If they dont like what they are eating they detach the stomach and grow a new one.
5700. Fact
A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.
5701. Fact
The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
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