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.

7698. Fact

The murder rate in the United States is about four times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally

7699. Fact

There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake

7700. Fact

¥ Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.

7701. Fact

In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word not out of the seventh commandment, which then read, Thou shalt commit adultery. This legendary book is now known as the Wicked Bible.

7702. Animal Facts

Some leeches can suck enough blood in one meal to keep them alive for nine months.

7703. Fact

The Earths core is a ball of Iron-Nickle at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.

7704. Fact

From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain

7705. Fact

Males account for 60% of toy injuries that occur in the U.S

7706. Fact

About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry

7707. Fact

Adolf Hitler loved chocolate cake

7708. Fact

The first person to die in the electric chair was William Kemmler, an ax murderer from New York on August 6, 1890

7709. Fact

The Manta Ray is the largest of all fish.

7710. Fact

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

7711. Fact

Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the world

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