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

7966. Fact

Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including at least 50 that cause, initiate or promote cancer such as tar, ammonia, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen and benzopyrene.

7967. Fact

Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

7968. Fact

Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up

7969. Fact

From the 1500's to the 1700's, tobacco was prescribed by doctors to treat a variety of ailments including headaches, toothaches, arthritis and bad breath.

7970. Fact

In some church in South Carolina, every man must bring a rifle to church on Sunday to ward off Indian attacks.

7971. Fact

Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.

7972. Fact

The name for insect poop is frass

7973. Fact

Badminton originates from a sport in India called poona.

7974. Fact

When glass breaks, it showers TOWARDS, not away from the force that broke it.

7975. Fact

The largest cabbage weighed 144 pounds.

7976. Fact

Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct

7977. Animal Facts

Scorpions paralyze their prey before they suck the juices out. It's not dead, but it can't escape.

7978. Fact

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

7979. Fact

Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark

7980. Fact

In 1958, the Crayola crayon color Prussian Blue was changed to Midnight Blue by the request of teachers as kids could not relate to Prussian history

7981. Fact

Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869. Ironically, a dentist named William Semple was behind the decision.

7982. Fact

The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head

7983. Fact

On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced

7984. Fact

Snakes are immune to their own poison.

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