Fact Book

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).

6174. Fact
Kittens are born both blind and deaf.

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

6180. Fact
The ocean sunfish can produce thirty million eggs at once

6181. Fact
The word 'Indiana'is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.

6182. Fact
There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres.

6183. Fact
The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks

6184. Fact
Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold

6185. Fact
Jaws is the most common name for a goldfish.

6186. Fact
The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn't kill their enemies.

6187. Fact
Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies

6188. Fact
A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout.

6189. Fact
An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler after watching her daughter play with baby dolls imagining then in grown up roles

6190. Fact
Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh".

6191. Fact
The first losing candidate in a US presidential election was Thomas Jefferson. He lost to John Adams. George Washington had been unopposed.

6192. Fact
Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before

6193. Fact
Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick.

6194. Fact
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

6195. Fact
The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941

6196. Fact
The football team Green Bay Packers comes from a meat packing company called Acme Packing

6197. Animal Facts
The southern giant petrel, a bird which lives near the South Pole, spits globs of oil and regurgitated food at its enemies.

6198. Animal Facts
A baby naked mole rat has transparent skin – you can see its insides right through its skin!

6199. Fact
Tallahassee, FL was the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi not captured during the U.S. Civil War.

6200. Fact
One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds

6201. Fact
In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood

6202. Fact
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

6203. Fact
Eating dandelions can make you urinate more

6204. Fact
There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.

6205. Fact
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become one year older on New Year's Day.

6206. Fact
Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets.

6207. Fact
The science-fiction series Lost in Space (set in the year 1997) premiered on CBS in 1965.

6208. Fact
Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the roost.

6209. Fact
The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after.

6210. Animal Facts
Cockroaches taste through their feet.

6211. Fact
The Canandian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839.

6212. Fact
The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound

6213. Fact
The Japanese commonly put ketchup on their rice.

6214. Fact
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".

6215. Fact
Touching and stroking a plant will aid in it growing healthy

6216. Fact
One 75-watt light bulb gives off more light than three 25-watt light bulbs.

6217. Fact
In 1783, the hot air balloon was invented in France.

6218. Fact
You can sometimes tell the hobbies and race of a person by their skeleton.

6219. Fact
In Hood River, Oregon, you can't juggle without a license.

6220. Fact
The only animals that are capable of turning their heads 180 degrees are from the genus Galago, such as the Tarsier

6221. Fact
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a huntinglicense.

6222. Fact
48% of astronauts experience motion sickness.

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