6987. Fact

Heavyweight tire manufacturer Goodyear is in no way affiliated with Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. They merely admired his inventiveness and his process that was so easy to duplicate that competitors simply stole it.

6988. Fact

The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

6989. Fact

9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

6990. Fact

Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.

6991. Fact

The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189

6992. Fact

It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.

6993. Fact

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

6994. Fact

Another name for your pinky finger is Wanus

6995. Fact

You blink about 25,000 times a day.

6996. Fact

Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney studios for use in the movie Fantasia.

6997. Fact

The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.

6998. Fact

The world's largest palace is the Imperial palace in the heart of Peking,

6999. Animal Facts

When an opossum is threatened, it plays dead – it lies still, its tongue hanging out, excretes faeces on itself and oozes green slime that smells of rotting flesh.

7000. Fact

Manta Rays have no external organs for urination, therefore they release the urine from their pores.

7001. Fact

There are no geese in the southern hemisphere.

7002. Fact

Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance

7003. Fact

It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate, even frequent daily dietary intake, had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.

7004. Fact

In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.

7005. Fact

Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.

7006. Fact

The company Sony was originally called Totsuken. They felt the name Sony would be easier to pronounce. The name was invented by a cross between the name sonus and sonny. The name sound and sonic are derived. Sonny was used to represent a young man or boy, which would show a energetic young company

7007. Fact

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body

7008. Fact

The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales

7009. Fact

There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.

7010. Animal Facts

A praying mantis is an insect rather like a cricket, but up to 12 centimetres (5 inches) long. It can kill and eat small lizards and birds, holding them impaled on a special spike it has developed for the purpose. A really hungry mantis will eat its own babies.

7011. Fact

Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse

7012. Fact

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, has been translated into more languages than any book outside of the Bible.

7013. Fact

On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving

7014. Fact

The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons

7015. Fact

Marilyn Monroe used to cut down the heel on one of her shoes to achieve her butt-wiggling walk in films.

7016. Fact

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

7017. Fact

The tallest woman in the world is American Sandy Allen who is 7 feet 7 inches

7018. Fact

It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.

7019. Fact

The city of Argentia which is located on Newfoundland's southwest coast, is Canada's most fog-bound community. It has 206 days of fog each year.

7020. Fact

When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.

7021. Fact

The Federal Reserve printed up an extra $50 billion in small bills just in case people started hoarding money prior to the year 2000. Since nowhere near that much cash was needed, and there was a long-term storage problem, most of that money was recycled.

7022. Fact

Only 4 mayors of U.S. cities went on to become president: Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Johnson.

7023. Fact

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms

7024. Animal Facts

Cockroaches can make themselves super-slim, and can flatten their bodies to a size just a little thicker than a piece of paper to crawl into cracks.

7025. Fact

Around 22% of Americans are teenagers.

7026. Fact

The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks.

7027. Fact

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meters.

7028. Fact

Nabisco's Oreo's are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.

7029. Fact

The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger

7030. Fact

Gottfried Daimler of Stuttgart, Germany, is generally regarded as the father of the automobile because he was the first to come up with a workable gasoline engine.

7031. Fact

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.

7032. Fact

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word I. Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using I only once in their inaugural addresses.

7033. Animal Facts

A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.

7034. Fact

Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight

7035. Fact

If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.

7036. Fact

You can usually tell how good the picture of a TV will be by how black the screen is when the TV is off. The blacker, the better.

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