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Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.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

7666. Fact

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.

7667. Fact

The movie Chicken Run made in 2,000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie

7668. Animal Facts

Cows partly digest the grass they eat, then vomit it back up into their mouths and chew and swallow it all over again.That's what they're doing when you see them chewing in a field when they're not munching on a fresh mouthful of grass.

7669. Fact

Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains.

7670. Fact

Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.

7671. Fact

There are 350,000 Italians living in Toronto, Canada, a population about the same as that of Venice, Italy.

7672. Fact

Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.

7673. Fact

White out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).

7674. Fact

Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers

7675. Fact

About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.

7676. Fact

One in ten people live on an island.

7677. Fact

At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour

7678. Fact

The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high

7679. Fact

The first lighthouse was in Alexandria in 290 B.C

7680. Animal Facts

Some types of baby Australian spider bite limbs off their mother to feed on over several weeks.

7681. Fact

The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand

7682. Fact

The five Olympic rings represent the five continents linked together in friendship

7683. Fact

The cashew nut in its natural state contains a poisonous oil. Roasting removes the oil and makes the nuts safe to eat.

7684. Fact

Silk was developed in China were it was kept a secret for more than two thousands years. Anyone found trying to smuggle silkworm eggs or cocoons out of the country was immediately put to death

7685. Animal Facts

The Japanese beetle found in Canada and the USA can eat through a human eardrum.

7686. Fact

Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people

7687. Fact

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

7688. Animal Facts

Horn flies attack bulls – as many as 10,000 can land on a bull's back and suck its blood until it dies.

7689. Fact

Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.

7690. Fact

El Capitan in Yosemite National Park is the largest visible granite rock in the world. It's twice the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

7691. Fact

Pretzel snacks have been around for over 1300 years. A European monk invented the snack using used leftover bread dough

7692. Fact

Those hard, plastic points on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.

7693. Fact

The causes of erectile dysfunction may be psychological or physical.

7694. Fact

In 1999, All Nippon Airlines, had one of its jets fully decorated with Pokemon characters from nose to tail on its exterior

7695. Fact

66% of home based businesses are owned by women

7696. Fact

The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.

7697. Fact

The magnolia tree is named after Pierre Magnol, a French scientist.

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