Fact Book
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.
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.
5853. Fact
Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.
5854. Fact
In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001
5855. Fact
The Bible has been translated into Klingon
5856. Fact
The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born
5857. Fact
A cow has four compartments in its stomach
5858. Animal Facts
Geckos have transparent eyelids which are permanently closed but allow the gecko to see anyway.
5859. Fact
The CN Tower located in Toronto, Ontario Canada took a total construction time of 40 months to complete at an original cost of $63 million
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The bible does not specify exactly how many wise men were sent to Bethleham.
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