7220. Fact

Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.

7221. Fact

The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

7222. Fact

The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate

7223. Fact

An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period

7224. Fact

The eraser wasn't put on pencils until 1858 by Hyman Lipman.

7225. Animal Facts

Fossilized cockroaches 300 million years old have been found. This means they were around 100 million years before the dinosaurs evolved!

7226. Fact

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

7227. Fact

There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death.

7228. Fact

The 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV was in 1955. Eisenhower was the president.

7229. Fact

Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.

7230. Fact

President Bush and Saddam Hussein both have their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker.

7231. Fact

Camels have three eyelids.

7232. Animal Facts

A grotesque frog which can turn from green to beige often lives in letterboxes and toilet cisterns in Australia and New Guinea.

7233. Fact

Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg, Germany where the serving of hamburgers first became popular.

7234. Fact

Tarantulas can go up to 2 years without eating or drinking. Sea turtles can go up to 35 years without eating or drinking.

7235. Fact

Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket. Collects cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the loose hairs.

7236. Fact

More American workers (18%) call sick on Friday than any other day of the week. Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism (11%).

7237. Fact

A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt

7238. Fact

The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time

7239. Fact

Actor John Ritter was the voice of Clifford, from Clifford The Big Red Dog.

7240. Fact

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

7241. Fact

The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism

7242. Fact

At the time of the U.S. Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the second largest English-speaking city in the world, surpassed only by London.

7243. Fact

A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes. (and he is getting fed up of it)

7244. Fact

The United States nickel (five cent piece) is made of 75% copper and 25% nickel.

7245. Fact

If you put a piece of scotch tape on an inflated balloon, then stick it with a small pin or needle, it won't pop.

7246. Fact

The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson for 1924's "Mrs. Miniver". It took an hour.

7247. Fact

¥ Charlie Chaplin won third place in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest.

7248. Fact

Everyone is colorblind at birth.

7249. Fact

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing.

7250. Fact

The slanted line that divides dates, fractions, choices, etc. (4/2/09) is called a virgule.

7251. Fact

A "jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

7252. Fact

In 1924, Kleenex tissues were originally designed as a cold cream remover

7253. Fact

Dragonflies can travel up to 60 mph.

7254. Fact

The first professional football team to sport an insignia on their helmets was the Los Angeles Rams in 1950, who hand painted yellow horns on their blue leather helmets.

7255. Fact

The average human head weighs about eight pounds

7256. Fact

Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath

7257. Fact

Psychokinesis refers to the ability of moving objects through psychic power

7258. Animal Facts

The armadillo produces so much spit that it has a special reservoir to store it in.

7259. Fact

Polar bears with white, fluffy fur actually have black skin

7260. Fact

The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

7261. Fact

All babies are colour blind when they are born

7262. Fact

The state of California raises the most turkeys out of all of the states.

7263. Fact

In Joliet, Illinois it is illegal to mispronounce the name Joliet.

7264. Fact

The banana tree cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.

7265. Fact

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg inthe air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horsehasall four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

7266. Fact

The first telephone book was one page long and had only 50 names in it.

7267. Fact

A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon

7268. Fact

The U.S. military s dried food rations can be re-hydrated with urine.

7269. Fact

The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries

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