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.

7945. Fact

The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum

7946. Fact

The use of the names of dead presidents to sell alcohol in Michigan is prohibited.

7947. Fact

In Sterling, Colorado, it is unlawful to allow a pet cat to run loose without a taillight.

7948. Fact

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

7949. Fact

Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.

7950. Animal Facts

Some types of octopus contain a poison which instantly kills anything that eats it.

7951. Fact

The largest member of the dolphin family are orcas

7952. Fact

The first players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame were Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson in 1936.

7953. Fact

The largest ice cream sundae was made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream, was 12 feet high and had 7000 pounds of toppings on it. This was made in Anaheim, California in 1985

7954. Fact

Due to sugar shortages to make candy during World War II, movie theatre owners turned to popcorn, which is now the best selling snack at movie theatres today

7955. Fact

Canada is an Indian word meaning village or settlement.

7956. Fact

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City

7957. Fact

Back in 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow Peep. Now it takes only six minutes

7958. Animal Facts

Vampire bats don't suck – they make a cut in their victim, then lick the blood as it flows out.To keep it flowing, they have an anticoagulant in their spit – a chemical which stops blood from clotting and forming a scab.

7959. Fact

Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs and Ham after his editor dared him to write a book using fewer than 50 different words.

7960. Fact

A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.

7961. Fact

Strawberries, raspberries, and cherries are not actually berries.

7962. Fact

Bilbo Baggins was born on September 22, 1290.

7963. Fact

The makers of Crayola produce over 2 billion crayons in a year

7964. Fact

Humans use a total of 72 different muscles in speech.

7965. Fact

Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension

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