7369. Fact

People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand

7370. Fact

According to the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101 Dalmatians.

7371. Fact

The word samba means to rub navels together.

7372. Animal Facts

Driver ants and army ants both march in massive colonies and will strip to the bones any animal they come across. They'll even tackle a wounded crocodile or lion that can't get away. Driver ants slash at their victims who eventually bleed to death from thousands of tiny cuts.

7373. Fact

Minors in Kansas City, Missouri, are not allowed to purchase cap pistols, but they can buy shotguns.

7374. Fact

In Britain, there are approximately 50,000 pubs with 17,000 different names

7375. Fact

The first ever World Summit on Toilets was held in Singapore in November 2001

7376. Fact

In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England. The cost of chocolate was about 13 shillings per pound and was a drink that only the elite enjoyed

7377. Fact

The lead in a normal pencil would draw a line of 35 miles.

7378. Animal Facts

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out, pushing it out through its mouth opening.

7379. Fact

In the U.S., more than 10% of lottery prizes go unclaimed.

7380. Fact

¥ Every year, the Moon moves a further 3.82cm from the Earth.

7381. Fact

27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell. (big surprise, eh?)

7382. Fact

The sentence the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter in the english language

7383. Fact

Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of ponds. It is produced by the decomposition of dead plants and animals in the mud.

7384. Fact

Male owls weigh less and are smaller than female owls

7385. Fact

According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism.

7386. Fact

When Disneyland opened in 1955, Tomorrowland represented a city from 1986.

7387. Fact

Women who are housewives are, as a whole, more faithful than working women.

7388. Fact

The word gargoyle comes down from the Old French: gargouille, meaning throat or gullet. This is also the origin of the word gargle. The word describes the sound produced as water passes the throat and mixes with air. In early architecture, gargoyles were decorative creatures on the drains of cathedrals.

7389. Fact

An adult Gold Frog measures to be 9.8 millimeters in body length

7390. Fact

Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.

7391. Fact

The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.

7392. Fact

There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

7393. Fact

One out of every five births in the United States are delivered by Cesarean section

7394. Fact

The human face is made up of 14 bones

7395. Fact

Reptiles do not perspire, and do not have any oil glands

7396. Fact

The largest known hailstone to have fallen was in Germany in 1925, which weighed close to four and a half pounds.

7397. Fact

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art

7398. Fact

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letteris uncopyrightable.

7399. Fact

In 1938, Hewlett-Packard became the first corporation to move to Silicon Valley.

7400. Fact

The Super Bowl is so popular that it is the number on at-home party event of the year

7401. Fact

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.

7402. Fact

Asthma and isthmi are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.

7403. Fact

The most disliked vegetable by Americans is Brussels sprouts

7404. Fact

1 kg (2.2 pounds) of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.

7405. Fact

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.

7406. Fact

The first flavour of a cheese ball was called Cheddy Blue.

7407. Fact

Princess Anne from the British royal family competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics

7408. Fact

In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose.

7409. Fact

About 400 different kinds of microbes live on and in the human body.

7410. Fact

Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day

7411. Fact

Minnesotans are forbaden from teasing skunks.

7412. Fact

In a day the blue whale calf drinks approximately 130 gallons of milk

7413. Fact

The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames

7414. Fact

If you had 15 cubes numbered 1 to 15 and you tried to line them up in every possible sequence, and if you made a change every minute, it would take you 2,487,996 years to do it.

7415. Fact

New York City's administrative code still requires that hitching posts be located in front of City Hall so that reporters can tie their horses.

7416. Fact

More steel in the US is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.

7417. Fact

Water-based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways.

7418. Animal Facts

Inuit people have to cover all exposed skin with a thick layer of mud to avoid fierce biting flies in the summer.

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