7714. Fact

The human head weighs 7 pounds.

7715. Fact

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

7716. Fact

The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year

7717. Fact

Hungarian brothers George and Lszlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938.

7718. Animal Facts

Scorpions can withstand extremes of temperature and even radiation. A scorpion could be frozen in a block of ice for three weeks and walk away unharmed, and survive 200 times the dose of radiation that would kill a person!

7719. Fact

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

7720. Fact

Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds

7721. Fact

There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin

7722. Fact

An estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.

7723. Animal Facts

Locusts, like giant grasshoppers or crickets, travel in swarms of up to 80 million and each eats its own weight in plants every day.

7724. Fact

The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.

7725. Fact

It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese

7726. Fact

The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.

7727. Fact

If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)

7728. Fact

Before Columbus, Europe had never tasted corn, potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, sweet potatoes, tapioca, chocolate, pumpkins, squash, coconuts, pineapples, strawberries, and much more. Why? All these food items are native to America.

7729. Fact

The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000

7730. Fact

Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee

7731. Fact

Conservationalists and Conversationalists (18 letters) are the longest non-scientific transposals (word formed from another by changing its letters).

7732. Fact

Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers

7733. Fact

Pineapples are classified as berries.

7734. Fact

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the current temperature in celcius degrees.

7735. Fact

It is against the law in Oregon to fish with canned corn.

7736. Fact

The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.

7737. Fact

Archipelago is the word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together

7738. Fact

According to the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is someone between the age of 15 and 64.

7739. Fact

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher

7740. Fact

Whoopi Goldberg s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.

7741. Fact

Hartford, Connecticut, has made it illegal to educate dogs.

7742. Fact

There was once a law in Salem Virginia that made it illegal to leave home without knowing where you were going.

7743. Fact

George Harrison, with My Sweet Lord, was the first Beatle to have a Number 1 hit single following the group's breakup.

7744. Fact

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas

7745. Fact

The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth, not Babe Ruth the baseball player.

7746. Fact

570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House

7747. Fact

In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

7748. Fact

During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, 'Moby Dick', only sold 50 copies.

7749. Animal Facts

Soldier flies like to lay their eggs in human faeces.The larvae (maggots) are often found in bathrooms as they crawl up the sewage pipes.

7750. Fact

In an year, an average American kid eats 46 slices of pizza

7751. Fact

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

7752. Fact

Missouri has been to most NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four

7753. Fact

The food that people crave the most is cheese

7754. Fact

Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946

7755. Fact

In 1908, figure skating became the first winter sport to be included in the Olympics.

7756. Fact

Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation

7757. Fact

Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump."

7758. Fact

A speleologist studies caves.

7759. Fact

King Henry III of France, Louis XIV of France, and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia (the fear of cats).

7760. Fact

On July 4, 1776 (signing of the Declaration of Independence), King George III of England noted in his diary: Nothing of importance happened today.

7761. Animal Facts

A shark will eat parts of its own body that have been cut off or bitten off by another animal.

7762. Fact

King Henry III of France, Louis XVI of France and Napoleon all suffered from ailurophobia--fear of cats.

7763. Fact

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Finnish word SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS a soapstone seller is the longest known palindrome in any language.

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