736. Fact

The plane buddy holly crashed in was named "american pie". Don mclean adopted this name for a song he released a couple of years later.

737. Fact

The sloth moves so slow algae can grow unhinderred on it. That is why its skin is sometimes green.

738. Fact

It's not only the tiger's fur that is striped. The skin is striped as well.

739. Fact

The expression "checkmate" comes from the arabic expression "shah mat", which means "the king is dead".

740. Fact

Do you think "big ben" is a tower or a clock face? Well, both are wrong guesses. This well-known name actually belongs to the bell that sounds every hour behind the famous clock face in london, england.

741. Fact

When the north american possum is threatened, it not only plays dead to escape the danger, it also faints from fear!

742. Fact

Sesame street puppet characters bert and ernie's namesakes are the policeman, bert and the taxi driver, ernie, from the classic film it's a wonderful life starring jimmy stewart.

743. Fact

Did you know that camels have three eyelashes to protect their eyes from the blowing sand?

744. Fact

A donkey's eyes are positioned so that it can see all of its hooves at the same time.

745. Fact

When you are born, you have 300 bones in your body but when you die, you only have 206.

746. Fact

The only known month to not have a full moon is february 1865.

747. Fact

According to the author ian fleming, james bond's father was from scotland and his mother from france.

748. Fact

An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain.

749. Fact

The toaster was introduced by general electric in the usa in 1909.

750. Fact

The leaning tower of pisa, one of italy's greatest tourist attractions, leans in a southerly direction.

751. Fact

The latin inscription i.n.r.i. stands for "iesus nazarenus, rex iudaeorum" which means "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews".

752. Fact

During the second world war, queen elizabeth ii studied to become a car mechanic.

753. Fact

In paraguay, duelling is only legal if both fighters are registered blood donors.

754. Fact

A diamond's weight is measured in carats. Originally, one carat equalled the weight of one seed from a loaf of st. John's bread. It was changed in 1931 that the exact weight was to be 0.2 grams.

755. Fact

South africa has eleven main languages, which explains why you can sometimes find really long road signs. Everyone must be able to read them!

756. Fact

The earth weighs about 5,924,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons.

757. Fact

Contrary to popular belief, thomas alva edison did not invent the lightbulb. Many had done this before him. What he did, however, was modify the lightbulb and patent it.

758. Fact

An angry male hummingbird has a pulse of up to 1,000 beats per minute while, at the same time, drawing about 500 breaths.

759. Fact

In 1820, scientists believed the universe to be 6,000 years old. Today, experts date it between 15 to 20 billion years old.

760. Fact

A black hole is a collapsed star that has turned into a tiny black globe. The hole is black because of its enormous force of gravity that won't let any light out.

761. Fact

Some male spiders have very interesting survival techniques. To avoid being eaten by a female, the male spider will entwine her in a cobweb before mating.

762. Fact

In london, england's fire of 1666, half of the city burned down, but miraculously only six people were injured.

763. Fact

The oscar statues are normally made of tin and copper, but during the second world war, they were made of plaster, covered in gold. All metal was needed for the war effort.

764. Fact

Mosquitoes live on nectar not blood. Blood is required for producing protein which is necessary for laying eggs.

765. Fact

If all the salt could be extracted from the sea and oceans, it would completely cover the continents with a 20-inch layer.

766. Fact

The motto on james bond's family crest is, "the world is not enough".

767. Fact

Pure gold is so soft that you can shape it with your hands.

768. Fact

One horsepower is the force needed to lift 75 kilos one meter straight up in the air for one second.

769. Fact

26 popes have unfortunately been murdered.

770. Fact

For a long time, the tonga islands had a banana shaped stamp.

771. Fact

If you suffer from arachinophobia, you're terrified of spiders.

772. Fact

Geographical locations with the shortest names are "a" in norway, "o" in japan and "y" in france.

773. Fact

If you keep a living goldfish in a completely dark room, it will eventually turn white.

774. Fact

The horsehead, used in the film the godfather, came from a factory that manufactures dog food.

775. Fact

The a-system used to keep control of paper sizes (a4, a5, a3 etc) was invented in germany in 1930 and became an international standard.

776. Fact

There are over 500 phobias and tauraphobia is one of them - a fear of bulls.

777. Fact

Ice cream contains a thickeningsubstance extracted from seaweed.

778. Fact

Since 1989, oscar presenters are not allowed to say "and the winner is..." this insinuates that all of the other nominees are losers. So instead they say "and the oscar goes to..."

779. Fact

Bird's feet are always cold.

780. Fact

The koala got its name from the australian aboriginals. Koala means "no drink" and refers to the fact that koala bears get all the fluid they need eating eucalyptus leaves.

781. Fact

One of the first mobile phones with a battery smaller than a bag was the nmt900 phone curt, from ericsson. It weighed 1.6 pounds and you could talk on it for 12 minutes.

782. Fact

Nicholas cage changed his last name from coppola to cage so that no one would know that he was related to oscar-winning director francis ford coppola, who is his uncle.

783. Fact

Leprosy can affect all people but only one animal - the south and middle american armadillo.

784. Fact

Every year, the moon moves 1.5 inches away from the earth.

785. Fact

Brontophobia means a terrible fear of thunder.

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