Fact Book
6130. Fact
Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure
6131. Fact
Ballocks is a slang term for the testicles.
6132. Fact
The first automobile racetrack in America was the 'Indianapolis Motor Speedway,' which had 3 million cobblestones.
6133. Fact
Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead learned to play slide guitar on stage much to the chagrin of Jerry Garcia.
6134. Fact
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.
6135. Fact
Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water
6138. Fact
Owls swallow their prey whole because they have no teeth. After approximately 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet
6139. Fact
All the world's main alphabets have developed from an alphabet invented 3,600 years ago in the Middle East. It was known as the North Semitic Alphabet.
6140. Fact
A mockingbird has been known to change its tune 87 times over a minute span.
6141. Fact
On average, he ratio of yellow kernels to white kernals in a bag of popcorn is 9:1
6142. Fact
Heavier lemons produce more, and tastier, juice
6143. Fact
The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years
6144. Fact
Five Jell-O flavors have flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, and chocolate.
6145. Fact
Despite the break up of the USSR, Russia is still the largest country in the world. It's almost twice the size of Canada, which ranks second.
6147. Fact
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it!)
6148. Fact
The canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia, which is why canned herrings are better known as sardines.
6149. Fact
The first cover of Sports Illustrated, in 1954, showed National League umpire, Augie Donatelli, behind the plate with two major-league stars: catcher Wes Westrum, and batter Eddie Matthews.
6150. Fact
Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.
6151. Fact
Levi's 501 jeans got its number from its original stock number in the first Levi's store.
6152. Fact
Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer
6153. Fact
The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.
6154. Fact
If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
6155. Fact
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class
6156. Fact
The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m
6157. Fact
In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term brain freeze. The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.
6158. Fact
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated
6159. Fact
Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colourless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance
6160. Fact
Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.'"
6161. Fact
There are more than 50 different types of pumpkins. Some of them have names such as Munchkin, Funny Face, and Spooktacular
6162. Animal Facts
Horses often chew at fly eggs and maggots on their legs and end up swallowing them, so have a stomach full of crawling maggots.
6163. Fact
Each year approximately half of billions dollars is spent on bubble gum by the kids in North America
6164. Fact
The name of the squiggly line ~ is called a tilde
6165. Fact
In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.
6166. Fact
Tripolini pasta was named for the Italian conquest of Tripoli in Libya
6167. Fact
Of all things, Andrew Jackson s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States.
6168. Fact
75% of men look for wife potential in a girlfriend.
6169. Animal Facts
The wood frog that lives in the Arctic Circle can stay deep-frozen for weeks and survive.
6170. Fact
Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main actor was named Pal.
6171. Fact
In the movie The Exorcist the vomit that (Regan) Linda Blair hurls at Father Damien Karras is thick pea soup
6172. Fact
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax
6173. Fact
The longest war between two nations in history, The Hundred Year War between England and France, really lasted for 115 years(1338-1453).
6175. Fact
Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles in one day.
6176. Fact
Each year, the average family uses about 18,000 gallons of water just to do its laundry.
6177. Fact
In West Virginia it is illegal to dig for ginseng on your neighbor's lawn without their permission.
6178. Animal Facts
Copepods are tiny crustaceans that swim around in groups of up to a trillion.They are the only known creature that has just one eye.
6179. Fact
Huge Moore, the inventor of Dixie cups got the idea for the name from a neighboring factory, the Dixie Doll Company
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
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