6559. Fact

Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

6560. Fact

Olives, which grow on trees, were first cultivated 5,000 years ago in Syria

6561. Fact

In the 1800s, the Chinese believed that strangling a man was less sever a punishment than beheading because the body would not be permanently disfigured.

6562. Fact

The name Snickers for the popular candy bar was named after a horse that the Mars family owned

6563. Fact

The first museum in Moscow that was set up in 1791 was the Natural History Laboratory at Moscow University. This later was changed to the Zoological Museum

6564. Fact

Researchers have discovered that women adjust their menstrual cycles when exposed to the scent of a male underarm.

6565. Fact

Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do

6566. Fact

Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts.

6567. Animal Facts

A shark can taste blood over a kilometre (about half a mile) away.

6568. Fact

There are more than 250,000 rivers in the United States, which amounts to 3.5 million miles of rivers

6569. Fact

The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in war time.

6570. Fact

Polar bears can eat as much as ten percent of their body weight in less than one hour

6571. Fact

Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.

6572. Animal Facts

A mosquito can drink one and a half times its own weight in blood at a single meal.Yuk!

6573. Fact

In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.

6574. Fact

The first programme shown on BBC2 was Play School

6575. Fact

There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce

6576. Fact

Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

6577. Fact

A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a palindrome.

6578. Animal Facts

Bone-eating zombie worms live on the decaying bodies of dead whales. They have no gut, but bore deeply into the bones. Microbes inside the worms digest chemicals sucked out of the bones.

6579. Fact

Only 15% of men shave their privates.

6580. Fact

There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.

6581. Fact

Before 1928, yo-yos used to be called bandalores in the United States

6582. Fact

Pamela Lee-Anderson was the first to be born in Canada on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence (7/1/1967).

6583. Fact

In 1681, the last dodo bird died

6584. Fact

There is a flower called the Scarlet Pimpernel that can forecast the weather. If the flower is closed up, rain is coming and if it is opened up, the day will be sunny. It is a.k.a 'the poor man's weatherglass'

6585. Fact

Japan uses the most energy per year than any other country.

6586. Fact

Two million red blood cells die every second

6587. Fact

At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.

6588. Fact

The revolving door was invented in 1888, by Theophilus Van Kannel.

6589. Fact

Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by one vote.

6590. Fact

Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes

6591. Fact

28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, it's 38%.

6592. Fact

Romans used to believe that walnuts could cure head ailments during the Renaissance, since their shape was similar to that of a brain

6593. Fact

Hamsters love to eat crickets.

6594. Fact

The US federal income tax was first enacted in 1862 to support the Union's Civil War effort. It was eliminated in 1872, revived in 1894 then declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court the following year. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the US tax system.

6595. Fact

The largest type of penguin is the Emperor Penguin which can stand to be almost 3.5 feet tall and weigh more than 90 pounds

6596. Animal Facts

If a rat didn't keep chewing, its lower teeth would eventually grow through its top jaw and up into the roof of its mouth.

6597. Fact

99% of pumpkins that are sold are sold for decoration

6598. Fact

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6600. Fact

Wild Bill Hickok was killed playing poker, holding two pairs aces and eights, which has become known as "Dead Man's Hand."

6601. Fact

Anagrams amused the ancient Greeks, Romans and Hebrews, and were popular during the Middle Ages.

6602. Fact

In 1946, the New York Yankees became the first baseball team to travel by plane

6603. Fact

Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum

6604. Fact

In the United States, the first cookbook was published in 1796 and it contained a recipes for watermelon rind pickles

6605. Fact

It wasn't until 1913 that sports teams started using numbers on players' jerseys for identfication. It first happened during a football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin.

6606. Fact

1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day.

6607. Fact

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

6608. Fact

To prevent some numbers from occurring more frequently than others, dice used in crap games in Las Vegas are manufactured to a tolerance of 0.0002 inches, less than 1/17 the thickness of a human hair.

6609. Fact

Printed on the tablet being held by the Statue of Liberty is July IV, MDCCLXXVI

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