Fact Book
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.
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
6238. Fact
Play-Doh was introduced in 1956 by Hasbro Inc. The only color availabe was an off white, and it came in one size which a one and a half pound can
6239. Fact
For every 230 cars that are made, 1 will be stolen.
6240. Fact
Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin
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Invention : barbed wire
Year : 1874
Inventor : joseph glidden
Country : us.
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