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

7270. Fact

About 25% of people in the world report that they are monogamous.

7271. Fact

Urine from men?s public urinals was sold as a commodity in Ancient Rome. It was used as a dye and for making clothes hard

7272. Fact

It is estimated that 93% of American children will go out trick or treating for Halloween

7273. Fact

Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom

7274. Fact

In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another

7275. Fact

The slowest growing finger nail is on the thumb nail and the fastest growing is the finger nail on the middle finger

7276. Fact

In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed

7277. Fact

The earth is 24,901 miles around at the equator.

7278. Fact

The first Valentine candy box was invented by Richard Cadbury in the 1800's.

7279. Fact

Goat meat contains up to 45 percent less saturated fat than chicken meat

7280. Fact

There are only 14 blimps in the world.

7281. Fact

There are 100 tiles in a "Scrabble" crossword game.

7282. Fact

The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 for a store promotion by an advertising employee of the department store Montgomery Ward

7283. Fact

After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.

7284. Fact

The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000.

7285. Fact

In 1747, the first American mention of the Christmas tree occurred. However, it was a not a tree but instead a pyramid made out of wood and decorated with apples and evergreen boughs

7286. Fact

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker

7287. Fact

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life

7288. Fact

The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.

7289. Fact

The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults

7290. Fact

The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat.

7291. Fact

The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon

7292. Fact

If you go blind in one eye, you only lose about 20% of your vision, but all your sense of depth.

7293. Fact

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

7294. Animal Facts

A flea can jump up to 220 times its own body length – a flea the size of an adult human could jump over a 25-storey building and more than a 0.4 kilometre (quarter of a mile) along the ground.

7295. Fact

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second.

7296. Fact

The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.

7297. Fact

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

7298. Fact

When the divorce rate goes up in the United States, toy makers report that the sale of toys also rise

7299. Fact

During the Roman times, people used urine, called lotium in Latin, as a hair product

7300. Fact

In a year, the average Americans eats approximately 18 pounds of Turkey

7301. Fact

Phimosis is an inability to retract the foreskin fully, is harmless in infancy and pre-pubescence, occurring in about 8% of boys at age 10.

7302. Fact

In South Korea, Green Giant canned sweet corn is advertised as a topping for ice cream.

7303. Fact

Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food

7304. Fact

The London Bridge is now in Arizona in the U.S.A. This fat cat(rich guy) bought it for only $2.46 million dollars.

7305. Fact

In one trip, a honey bee visits about 75 flowers

7306. Fact

It takes 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.

7307. Fact

One percent of Greenland's population lives in a single apartment building.

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