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.

6223. Fact

In 1693, the postage rate of a letter was determined by how much light went through the letter. The less the light went through the letter the more expensive the rate would be. This technique was referred to as candling

6224. Fact

Brabara Cartland is the world's top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold.

6225. Animal Facts

The carpet viper kills more people in the world than any other type of snake. Its bite leads to uncontrollable bleeding.

6226. Fact

Average calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race: 10,000.

6227. Fact

Chocolate maker Cadbury uses more than sixty thousand tonnes of cocoa each year, in the United Kingdom alone

6228. Fact

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

6229. Fact

Birds are largely unaffected by spicy things, like chilies, as they are not sensitive to capsaicin, the hot stuff in chilies.

6230. Fact

Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.

6231. Fact

The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.

6232. Fact

Each year, more than 50,000 people are injured by jewelry in the U.S.

6233. Fact

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.

6234. Fact

The Great Lakes contain 6 quadrillion gallons of fresh water, one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.

6235. Fact

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

6236. Fact

The name Muppet was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word marionette and puppet.

6237. Fact

A salmon with two mouths, two sets of teeth and two tongues was caught by Bob Bateman of Canada

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