7570. Fact

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.

7571. Fact

In Hans Holbein's painting, The Ambassadors, the artist added a small skull as a way of signing his name. Holbein is another word for hollow bone or a skull.

7572. Fact

Reports from owners of cats and dogs indicate that 21% of dogs and 7% of cats snore

7573. Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)

7574. Fact

On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

7575. Fact

There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.

7576. Fact

What word can you take the first letter of, put it as the last letter, and make it the past tence of the original word? Answer: Eat (ate)

7577. Fact

Children grow faster in the springtime.

7578. Fact

Israel is the only country in the world, which has compulsory military service for women.

7579. Fact

The Taj Mahal in India is perfectly symetrical, except for one thing. The two tombs inside are not equal in size. This is because the male tomb has to be larger than the female tomb.

7580. Fact

Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.

7581. Fact

Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second

7582. Fact

Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars

7583. Fact

There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection

7584. Fact

Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).

7585. Fact

A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist

7586. Fact

In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen (Cymbeline), with 591 lines.

7587. Fact

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

7588. Fact

The correct name for the capital city of Thailand is rung Thep, and it's been this way for over 130 years. Foreigners persist on calling it Bangkok.

7589. Fact

Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water

7590. Fact

Coffee trees are self-pollinating.

7591. Fact

Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.

7592. Fact

The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple.

7593. Fact

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

7594. Fact

People who studies laughter are called a gelotologists.

7595. Fact

The world's first singing commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal. The four male singers, eventually known as the Wheaties Quartet, sang the jingle.

7596. Fact

On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

7597. Fact

May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months

7598. Fact

In a typical season, major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.

7599. Fact

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars

7600. Fact

Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.

7601. Fact

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder

7602. Fact

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)

7603. Animal Facts

Chameleons can change their skin colour to hide themselves (camouflage) – but they also change colour according to mood. Some go grey when depressed.

7604. Fact

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.

7605. Fact

The right lung is slightly larger than the left.

7606. Fact

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic

7607. Fact

The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.

7608. Fact

2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States

7609. Fact

Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison

7610. Fact

The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside

7611. Fact

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.

7612. Fact

Humpback whales are the only ones that use bubbles to help capture their prey. The bubbles trap fish in a spot for feeding whales.

7613. Fact

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.

7614. Fact

The Olympic Flame was introduced in 1928 in Amsterdam

7615. Animal Facts

The rattle on a rattlesnake's tail is made of rings of dead skin. It builds up as the snake grows older, so the louder the rattle the larger the snake.

7616. Fact

The town of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is closer to the equator than it is to the North Pole.

7617. Fact

In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper

7618. Fact

Of all the days of the week, the most popular day for people to eat ice cream is Sunday

7619. Fact

When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.

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