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.

7620. Fact

Naturalists use marshmallows to lure alligators out of swamps.

7621. Fact

The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes

7622. Fact

The Prudential Life Insurance Company in USA stopped using their slogan Own A Piece Of The Rock after Rock Hudson died of AIDS and many jokes where made about him and the slogan.

7623. Fact

Spiders usually have eight eyes, but still they cannot see that well

7624. Fact

When a male skier falls down, he tends to fall on his face. A woman skier tends to fall on her back.

7625. Fact

The dot that appears over the letter i is called a tittle

7626. Fact

In India, a 9-year-old girl was married to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum

7627. Fact

City Ordinance number 352 in Pacific Grove, CA makes it a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly.

7628. Fact

The movie As Good As It Gets is called Mr. Cat Poop in China.

7629. Fact

In 1968, Abbie Hoffman played with a yo-yo while testifying before a congressional committee. He was found in contempt

7630. Fact

In 1949 UNICEF produced the first charity Christmas card. The picture shown on the card was painted by a seven year old girl

7631. Fact

Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am

7632. Fact

The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.

7633. Fact

All pyrimids were bright white.

7634. Fact

Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%

7635. Fact

More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles

7636. Fact

On April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Luft Hansa flight

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