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.

5683. Fact

Peanuts are beans.

5684. Fact

Astronauts cannot burp in space.

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.

5702. Fact

Women smile more than men do

5703. Fact

Women shoplift more often than men; the statistics are 4 to 1.

5704. Animal Facts

Only female mosquitoes bite and suck blood – they need the protein in blood so that they can lay eggs. The males only eat nectar from flowers.

5705. Fact

In 1971, the postal code was introduced in Ottawa, Ontario

5706. Fact

All snakes on the island of Tasmania are poisonous.

5707. Fact

Titanic was running at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg

5708. Fact

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.

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