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.

7985. Fact

Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.

7986. Fact

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

7987. Fact

Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States

7988. Fact

The first British ship to use the SOS distress signal was the Titanic

7989. Fact

Polaris is the closest visible star to true north and is thus referred to as the North Star. By sometime around the year 2100, the wobble of the Earth's axis will slowly begin pointing the North Pole away from Polaris. By the year 14,000 A.D., the new North Star will be Vega.

7990. Animal Facts

The female praying mantis begins to eat the male during mating; he carries on, but she eventually eats all of him.

7991. Fact

The fastest land animal is the cheetah, however the fastest animal in the world is the prerigine falcon, which can dive at 217mph

7992. Fact

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog

7993. Fact

The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming

7994. Fact

In Canada it's illegal to publicly remove bandages.

7995. Fact

English sailors were referred to as limeys because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy

7996. Fact

About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

7997. Fact

Parker Brothers was founded by George Swinerton Parker, 18, in 1885. The first game produced was 'Banking,' in which the player who amasses the most wealth is the winner.

7998. Fact

An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more

7999. Fact

Baseball rules were codified in 1846 by Alexander Cartwright of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club.

8000. Fact

The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass

8001. Fact

The first puck ever used in a professional hockey game was a frozen piece of cow dung.

8002. Fact

In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States

8003. Fact

The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919

8004. Fact

The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time

8005. Fact

The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest

8006. Fact

Mosquitoes have teeth

8007. Fact

Bananas aren t fruit. They are a type of herb.

8008. Fact

The 1st US Minimum Wage Law was instituted in 1938. The minimum wage was 25 cents per hour.

8009. Fact

It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate

8010. Fact

Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.

Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : chidambaram subramaniam
freedom fighter, minister of agriculture (father of green revolution)
Year : 1998
Region : tamil nadu.      .. More >>