7895. Fact

In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph.

7896. Fact

Over the course of one year, a coffee tree only produces about 1.5 pounds of coffee

7897. Fact

There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six actors playing the part. None were Chinese.

7898. Fact

The Taj Mahal was actually built for use as a tomb

7899. Fact

In an episode of the 1962 cartoon The Jestons, Jane Jetson is talking through a video phone. The phone number of The Jetsons was VENUS-1234

7900. Fact

The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound, is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans. Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.

7901. Fact

The longest one syllable word in he English language is screeched.

7902. Fact

Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

7903. Fact

In Paulding, Ohio an officer of the law may bite a dog to quiet him.

7904. Fact

The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

7905. Fact

During World War II, Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks. They trained the dogs to associate the tanks with food and ended up destroying about 25 German tanks using this method

7906. Fact

Snake is a delicacy in China

7907. Fact

The average marathon runner's heart beats about 175 times per minute during a race. A typical adult's heart beats 68 times a minute at rest.

7908. Fact

In April 1964, The Beatles had the top five songs in the United States. This is the only time that the top five songs at any one time were by the same group.

7909. Fact

The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes.

7910. Fact

Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human

7911. Fact

Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times

7912. Animal Facts

The Pharaoh ant likes to live in hospitals where it feasts on wounds, bloody bandages and solutions for dripping into patient's bodies.

7913. Animal Facts

A giraffe can lick inside its own ears.

7914. Fact

Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights

7915. Fact

It is estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the earth since it was formed.

7916. Fact

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

7917. Fact

There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.

7918. Fact

Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because each of the four main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar and eggs) are weighed out as a pound.

7919. Fact

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is 58.36 metres above the ground

7920. Animal Facts

A single female fly can hatch up to 1,000 babies (maggots) in her lifetime.

7921. Fact

The daughter of confectioner Leo Hirschfield is commemorated in the name of the sweet he invented: Although his daughter's real name was Clara, she went by the nickname Tootsie, and in her honor, her father named his chewy chocolate logs Tootsie Rolls.

7922. Fact

It is impossible to drink more than a gallon of milk in 1 hour without throwing up.

7923. Fact

The word breakfast was coined due to the fact that after sleeping for hours, we are breaking our fast.

7924. Fact

The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.

7925. Fact

The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs

7926. Fact

The word set has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

7927. Fact

The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened.

7928. Fact

In Albany, New York, you cannot play golf in the streets.

7929. Fact

Four is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.

7930. Fact

The most frequent season for most suicides to occur is in the spring. The winter months have the lowest number of suicides

7931. Fact

Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

7932. Fact

In France, it is legal to marry a dead person.

7933. Fact

The longest cave in the world is the 'Mammoth Cave System'in the USA at 560,000 mtrs deep.

7934. Fact

Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year

7935. Fact

Apparently, according to Playtex, the best selling bra sizes these days are 34B and 36B.

7936. Fact

A leech has 32 brains

7937. Fact

The Republic of Israel was established April 23, 1948.

7938. Fact

Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles

7939. Fact

Dutch, on average are the tallest people

7940. Fact

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies

7941. Fact

Many scholars believe that an earthquake caused the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, referred to in the Bible as the smoke of the country. Earthquakes produce massive clouds of dust that resemble billowing smoke.

7942. Fact

The # symbols is often referred to as a number sign or pound sign. Its actual name is an octothorpe

7943. Animal Facts

African dung beetles eat animal faeces. Five thousand beetles can eat a pound of faeces in 2 hours.

7944. Fact

Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.

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