5803. Fact

African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away

5804. Fact

A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day

5805. Fact

Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers

5806. Fact

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

5807. Fact

Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick

5808. Fact

Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India

5809. Fact

A pig is the only animal than can get sunburned.

5810. Fact

Taco Bell serves over 35 million consumers each week in the USA

5811. Fact

The first zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

5812. Fact

In the United States, more Frisbee discs are sold each year than baseballs, basketballs, and footballs combined.

5813. Fact

The Sahara Desert expands at a rate of about 1 km each month.

5814. Fact

To make an espresso 42 coffee beans are needed

5815. Animal Facts

Head lice suck blood for about 45 seconds every 2–3 hours, but they can go without a meal for up to two days if they are between heads – on a comb, towel or pillow.

5816. Fact

The largest pumpkin weighed 377 pounds.

5817. Fact

Frozen food can be just as nutritious as fresh food

5818. Fact

Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain

5819. Fact

A violin actually contains 70 separate pieces of wood

5820. Fact

The first plastic ever invented was celluloid in 1868. It's still used today to make billiard balls.

5821. Fact

Until the 18th century India produced almost all the world diamonds.

5822. Fact

Andrew Johnson, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.

5823. Fact

¥ Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

5824. Fact

Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.

5825. Fact

Four out of five brides in the U.S. have a job

5826. Fact

When the English colonists sat down for their first Thanksgiving dinner on February 22, 1630, an Indian chief named Quadoquina offered a deerskin bag filled with freshly popped corn. Thus popcorn made its first appearance to non-native North Americans.

5827. Fact

The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

5828. Fact

The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse

5829. Fact

Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa, more than any other wild animal.

5830. Fact

During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles

5831. Fact

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula". It can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size: L.A.

5832. Fact

Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software

5833. Fact

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball

5834. Fact

Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.

5835. Fact

35,000 people in the U.S. will die from the flu annually.

5836. Fact

The amount American Airlines saved in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class: $40,000.

5837. Fact

Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars.

5838. Fact

There are more than 3000 documented caves located in the state of Tennessee

5839. Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee

5840. Fact

You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

5841. Fact

There are over 500 different types of bananas

5842. Fact

Crocodiles can snap their jaws in 1/8th of a second and can use over 40 sets of teeth

5843. Fact

The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured.

5844. Fact

An armadillo can walk under water

5845. Fact

Crayola is a French word that means Oily chalk.

5846. Fact

In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car

5847. Fact

It is possible for a scorpion to sting itself to death as they are not immune to their own poison.

5848. Fact

Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.

5849. Fact

There are 300 distinct different types of honey.

5850. Animal Facts

The bulldog ant from Australia will sting again and again while holding on with its fierce jaws. It can kill a human in 15 minutes.

5851. Fact

In the wild, the poinsettia flower can reach a height of 12 feet, and have leaves that are eight inches across.

5852. Fact

It is possible to see a rainbow at night.

Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize : Physiology or Medicine
Year : 1927
Name : julius wagner-jauregg
Country : austria.      .. More >>