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.

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

5860. Fact

¥ Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it.

5861. Fact

In Georgia, movie houses that want to show films on Sunday must reserve one showing a month for religious material.

5862. Fact

The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.

5863. Fact

It is illegal NOT to smile in Pocatello, Idaho.

5864. Fact

Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

5865. Fact

Robert Peary, who left pieces of the flag scattered at the North Pole was honored for doing this.

5866. Fact

The state that has the most diners in the world is New Jersey, which is referred to as the Diner Capital of the World.

5867. Fact

There are more statues of Sacagawea, Lewis Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person.

5868. Fact

The queen of England has two birthdays.

5869. Fact

The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch

5870. Fact

The famous jewelry store Tiffany & Co. was established on September 18, 1837 in New York City. The amount of sales that were made the first day were $4.98

5871. Fact

Cole Porter had nine pounds of fudge shipped to him each month from his hometown.

5872. Fact

On average, a 4-year-old child asks 437 questions a day.

5873. Fact

The Mills Brothers have recorded the most songs of any artist: about 2,250.

5874. Fact

In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $25.00.

5875. Fact

The idea of Christmas cards was invented by Englishman Henry Cole in 1843

5876. Fact

Deodorizes shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight so they'll smell great in the morning.

5877. Fact

Actress Debra Winger helped to perform the voice of E.T. in the movie ?E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982).

5878. Fact

Humans are the only animals that can blush.

5879. Animal Facts

Chameleons can change their skin colour to hide themselves (camouflage) – but they also change colour according to mood. Some go grey when depressed.

5880. Fact

On December 17 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80, the largest margin of victory in an NBA game

5881. Fact

In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time

5882. Fact

Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids.

5883. Fact

The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight

5884. Fact

Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.

5885. Fact

The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted 9 years.

5887. Fact

Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

5888. Fact

Halfway, Oregon temporarily changed its name to half.com as a publicity stunt for the web site of the same name.

5889. Fact

The largest sculpture ever made are the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore.

5890. Fact

Those San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.

5891. Animal Facts

Mosquitoes in the Arctic hatch when the snows thaw, sometimes making such large swarms they blot out the sun.

5892. Animal Facts

A pregnant scorpion will sometimes reabsorb its babies instead of giving birth to them.

5893. Fact

The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold

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