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

7637. Fact

Olympic pools are 50 meters long.

7638. Fact

Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Lowenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).

7639. Fact

When pure gold is beaten with a mallet and made into gold leaf, the average thickness runs between 1/200,000th to 1/250,000th of an inch.

7640. Fact

Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.

7641. Fact

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

7642. Fact

In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and Go.

7643. Fact

Some kinds of frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living

7644. Fact

Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.

7645. Fact

Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body

7646. Fact

Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old.

7647. Fact

To find out almost the exact temperature... Listen to a cricket chirping and count the number of chirps in a minute. Add fifty, divide by four then add 40.

7648. Fact

A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

7649. Fact

Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.

7650. Fact

The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy

7651. Fact

Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked

7652. Fact

The word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, from the movie Mary Poppins, was added to the Oxford dictionary in 1964.

7653. Fact

On average women can hear better than men.

7654. Fact

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

7655. Fact

Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.

7656. Fact

Milk is actually considered to be a food and not a beverage.

7657. Fact

Alexander the Great was an epileptic

7658. Fact

Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

7659. Fact

The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe

7660. Fact

The average housefly lives for only two weeks.

7661. Fact

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.

7662. Fact

The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.

7663. Fact

Shark cartilage has been used to make artificial skin for human burn victims

7664. Fact

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

7665. Animal Facts

The female hissing cockroach surrounds her eggs with a frothy substance that hardens; she then carries them inside her body for two weeks until they hatch.

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