7512. Fact

Found in Argentina, the ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow

7513. Fact

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

7514. Fact

Redheads require more anesthesia to 'go under'than other hair colors do.

7515. Fact

Electronic companies sell five times as many big-screen TVs during Super Bowl Week

7516. Fact

Europe has no deserts, it is the only continent without one.

7517. Fact

Gerald Ford, George Bush, Tommy Lasorda, Ted Koppel, John F. Kennedy Jr., Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama are all left handed.

7518. Fact

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.

7519. Fact

A jellyfish is 95 percent water

7520. Fact

New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world

7521. Fact

In Bensalem, Pennsylvania it is illegal to race mufflerless go-karts after 6 p.m. on Sunday.

7522. Fact

There is an average of 61,000 people airborne over the US at any given moment.

7523. Animal Facts

Cockroaches have an oily coating to make them slithery.

7524. Fact

Underground is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters und.

7525. Fact

The act of stretching and yawning is referred to as pandiculation

7526. Fact

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

7527. Fact

Stuttering is 4 to 6 times more common in boys than in girls.

7528. Fact

Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission

7529. Fact

Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses

7530. Fact

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

7531. Fact

Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving

7532. Fact

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.

7533. Fact

The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair.

7534. Fact

Canadians eat more Kraft Dinner (Macaroni and Cheese) per capita than any other country in the world

7535. Fact

In Turkey during the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

7536. Fact

To tell if a egg is fully cooked or raw, just spin it. If the egg wobbles then it is still raw, and if it easily spins it is fully cooked

7537. Fact

Beethoven used to pour cold water over his head to stimulate his brain before sitting down to compose.

7538. Fact

Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.

7539. Fact

A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.

7540. Fact

Australia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras, and is one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the world.

7541. Fact

Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate

7542. Fact

Bubble gum contains rubber.

7543. Fact

The average human has about 20 square feet of skin weighing about 6 pounds

7544. Fact

Eating large amounts of carrots will eventually turn your skin orange because of the chemical substance called carotene which is found in carrots. Carotene is the cause of the orange hue in leaves during the fall.

7545. Fact

Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds

7546. Fact

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.

7547. Fact

Cattle can produce up to 180 litres of saliva in one day

7548. Fact

There are more than 2,000 different varieties of cheese in the world

7549. Fact

The wind must be below one mile an hour in order for the National Weather Service to rate the weather as calm.

7550. Animal Facts

South American cane toads have special glands behind their eyes which ooze poison out of their skin.They can even shoot the poison up to 30 centimetres (nearly a foot) to deter animals that might want to eat them.

7551. Fact

Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid

7552. Fact

A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed

7553. Fact

Australia's Sydney funnel-web spider and Brazil's Wandering spider (also known as the Banana Spider) are among the most Venomous species. Even these bad biters aren't big killers, though. Even before the introduction of anti venom only 1 percent of their bites resulted in death.

7554. Fact

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

7555. Fact

During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times

7556. Fact

According to the United States Postal Service, each person sent on average 689 letters throughout the year of 1996.

7557. Fact

Whenever people accidentally trip over themselves whilst walking, they automatically go into 'survival mode' and try to pretend like they meant it (eg. they start into a jog). How hilarious is it watching someone do that?!

7558. Fact

A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds

7559. Fact

General Stonewall Jackson has two separate burial sites: one for his amputated left arm (Fredericksburg, VA) and one for the rest of his body (Lexington, VA). Jackson's left arm was shattered during the Battle of Chancellorsville by friendly fire and was amputated the next day. He died a week later. (8-1-02)

7560. Animal Facts

The butcher bird (shrike) impales mice, small birds and lizards onto spikes to hold them still while it eats them.

7561. Fact

John Hancock and Charles Thomson were the only people to sign the Declaration of independence on July 4th, 1776. The last signature came five years later.

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