Fact Book

6771. Fact
An artificial Christmas tree last up to six years in a home

6772. Fact
The largest hamburger cooked in the world weighed in at 6,040 pounds

6773. Fact
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S.

6774. Fact
Atari had to bury millions of unsold E.T. game cartridges in a New Mexico desert landfill in 1982

6775. Fact
All species of beetles are edible.

6776. Fact
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the American Pie. (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)

6777. Fact
There are over one billion people that are actively involved in rice growth

6778. Fact
By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds.

6779. Fact
Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.

6780. Fact
Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compound

6781. Fact
The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used.

6782. Fact
Watermelon, considered one of America's favorite fruits, is really a vegetable (Citrullus lanatus). Cousin to the cucumber and kin to the gourd, watermelons can range in size from 7 to 100 pounds.

6783. Fact
259,200 people die every day.

6784. Fact
Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

6785. Fact
America's first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, established in 1791.

6786. Fact
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

6787. Fact
The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

6788. Fact
Polar Bears can eat more than 50 lbs. of meat in one setting.

6789. Fact
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size

6790. Fact
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids

6791. Fact
The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men

6792. Fact
In 1899, a pharmacist named George Bunting blended his own cold cream, which, in addition to removing makeup and relieving sunburn, gained popularity for its ability to cure eczema. The product's claim of No Eczema led to its name, Noxzema.

6793. Fact
Gamblers mostly don't see any clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos

6794. Fact
Some desert snails have been known to sleep for three to four years

6795. Animal Facts
Newly discovered monster of the deep, Dakosaurus, was 4 metres (almost 14 feet) long, and had a head like a meat-eating dinosaur but the flippers and tail of a fish. Luckily, it died out 135 million years ago!

6796. Fact
In Boston, Massachusetts it is illegal to take a bath unless instructed to do so by a physician.

6797. Fact
Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.

6798. Fact
California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.

6799. Fact
Per-capita, Israel eats the most turkey based products in the world.

6800. Fact
In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale

6801. Fact
Elephants, horses, and camels all descended from animals that originally came from North America, despite their present homes in Eurasia.

6802. Fact
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

6803. Fact
Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.

6804. Fact
The 1st US federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. was in 1986.

6805. Fact
Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania

6806. Fact
It's a good thing lemmings are promiscuous, they produce 4 times as many females as males.

6807. Fact
The elephant is the national animal of Thailand

6808. Fact
Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.

6809. Fact
The Great White Shark can grow to be more than twenty feet long and can weigh approximately 4,000 pounds

6810. Fact
After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.

6811. Fact
On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime

6812. Fact
Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

6813. Fact
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.

6814. Fact
Ian Fleming named his character James Bond after real-life ornithologist and author

6815. Fact
The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year

6816. Fact
The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin

6817. Fact
An average person laughs about 15 times a day

6818. Fact
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.

6819. Fact
Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.

6820. Fact
The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes

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