6698. Fact

Sandy Koufax threw a no-hitter in four consecutive seasons between 1962-65. He's the only player to throw no-hitters in more than two straight seasons.

6699. Fact

There was no punctuation until the 15th century

6700. Fact

Sting was a high school teacher.

6701. Fact

The United States Library of Congress contains 73 millions volumes (books), arranged on 350 miles of shelves.

6702. Fact

Every ten minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.

6703. Fact

The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered.

6704. Fact

Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy

6705. Fact

The vegetable that is eaten most by Americans is potatoes. On average, a person eats about 140 pounds of potatoes annually

6706. Fact

Sports Illustrated has the largest sports magazine circulation

6707. Fact

Upper and Lower case letters are so named because when print had to be set by individual letters the upper case letters were stored in a case above the case that held the lower case letters.

6708. Fact

Polyurethane is thought to be a safe material for use in condoms, since it is nonporous and viruses cannot pass through it.

6709. Fact

Over a course of about eleven years, the sun's magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".

6710. Fact

The Beatles were George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. But there were also two lesser known, previous members of the band: Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe.

6711. Fact

Scientists have discovered a way to make biodegradable plastic from plants by using genetic engineering.

6712. Fact

The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!

6713. Fact

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.

6714. Animal Facts

Spiders inject flies and bugs with a chemical which paralyzes them and dissolves their insides. The spider then sucks out the liquid as it can't chew.

6715. Fact

Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.

6716. Fact

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

6717. Fact

75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the U.S. are manufactured in North America.

6718. Fact

A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly

6719. Fact

The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items

6720. Fact

Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth

6721. Fact

Eagles mate while airborne.

6722. Fact

Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.

6723. Fact

A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians

6724. Fact

Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1846.

6725. Fact

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older

6726. Fact

A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.

6727. Fact

Fido means faithful in Latin

6728. Fact

25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

6729. Fact

Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.

6730. Fact

The reason why the Canadian Arctic is called the Land of the Midnight Sun is because during the summer many communities have light 24 hours of the day. Many people have to cover their windows with tin foil to keep the light out when they sleep

6731. Fact

The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.

6732. Fact

The beluga whale, otherwise known as the white whale, is nicknamed the sea canary because of the birdlike chirping sounds it makes.

6733. Fact

The letter I is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

6734. Fact

The World Rubik Cube championship was held in Budapest on June 5, 1982. Nineteen National Champions took part. Minh Thai, the US Champion, won by solving the Cube in of 22.95 seconds. The world record, in competitive conditions, grew progressively lower and now stands at 16.5 seconds.

6735. Fact

The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross

6736. Fact

In just the first 56 days of life, the larva of the polyphemus moth eats about 86,000 times its birthweight

6737. Fact

¥The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

6738. Fact

Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and pointed on the bottom.

6739. Animal Facts

If a barracuda fish falls ill, it eats things that will make its flesh poisonous. That way, anything that eats it after it dies will be poisoned.

6740. Fact

Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.

6741. Fact

At -40 degrees fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.

6742. Fact

There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

6743. Fact

Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.

6744. Fact

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

6745. Fact

In ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a girl was a way to propose for marriage.. If the girl caught it, that would mean she accepts

6746. Fact

An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin

6747. Fact

The average human breathes about 700,000 cubic inches of air every day.

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