Fact Book

798. Fact
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg.

799. Fact
R2-d2, the popular robot from the star wars movies, is called c1-p8 in the italian movie versions.

800. Fact
Paul simon and art garfunkel were classmates.

801. Fact
You can't sneeze in your sleep.

802. Fact
The element californium is named after the american state, california.

803. Fact
Dumdum bullets are named after the city where the ammunition is manufactured, dumdum, india.

804. Fact
A sifonaptorologist studies fleas.

805. Fact
The weight of an adult person's skin is about 6.6 pounds.

806. Fact
Tom jones put so much feeling into a song he recorded for the james bond film thunder ball, that he blacked out in the studio.

807. Fact
The first cervical vertebra on humans is called atlas.

808. Fact
Venus, the second planet in our solar system, rotates in the opposite direction of the other eight planets.

809. Fact
In the bahamas there are different classifications for strong winds. One is "the banana wind" - this means the wind is so strong, bananas on the trees fall to the ground.

810. Fact
The "pont neuf" (which translated means "new bridge") is actually the oldest bridge in paris.

811. Fact
A llama can spit 16.5 feet.

812. Fact
A normal human brain contains as many brain cells as there are stars in the milky way; about 100 million.

813. Fact
The threads in nylon stockings are five times thinner than human hair.

814. Fact
There are over 500 recognized phobias. One of the most rare is sciophobia - the fear of shadows.

815. Fact
Germs are very small. One single water droplet can contain up to 50 million germs.

816. Fact
The only visible human muscle is the tongue.

817. Fact
There is a very unusual dialect on new guinea called taki. It only contains 340 words.

818. Fact
During one single soccer match, a professional player can move a distance of 7 miles.

819. Fact
George clooney's first starring role was a minor part in the film return of the killer tomatoes.

820. Fact
Cleopatra could speak 13 languages.

821. Fact
The albatross can fly while sleeping.

822. Fact
The notion of counting backwards - as done during a space rocket launch, for example - originated from a german science fiction film. The director thought that the countdown would increase the thrill.

823. Fact
Tapeworms are capable of growing very long. The longest that favors living inside humans is the taenia saginata. Females can reach up to 80-feet.

824. Fact
The weakest muscle in the human body is the stapedius muscle which is located in the middle ear. Its only function is to move the 3 millimeters (1/8-inch) stirrup bone a 1/2-millimeter (1/16-inch).

825. Fact
Khmer is the world's longest alphabet. It contains 74 characters and is used by about 8 million people in cambodia.

826. Fact
98% of our genes are the same as a chimpanzees. Only 2% make us a different species.

827. Fact
Kissing is not only nice. It's also good for your teeth! It's because when you kiss, your mouth produces saliva and saliva helps protect against dental plaque.

828. Fact
Our blood circulation is very long. The blood vessels, all together, are between 3,000 and 6,000 miles long.

829. Fact
A komodo dragon can eat one and a half times its own body weight in just a couple of minutes.

830. Fact
Mach 1 is the technical term for the speed of sound - 742 (statute) miles per hour.

831. Fact
The earth circles around the sun at a speed of 18.6 miles per second.

832. Fact
A concorde holds 31,510 gallons of petrol in its tanks.

833. Fact
Bears can be left or right handed.

834. Fact
You share the same birthday with about 9 million other people.

835. Fact
The wings on a banana fly flap back and forth 200 times per second.

836. Fact
120 milligrams of arsenic is enough to kill you.

837. Fact
When pharmacist john pemberton was mixing the solution that later was to become coca-cola, he included in his experiental batches cocaine, coca leaves and cola nuts.

838. Fact
Thelma pickles was john lennon's first girlfriend.

839. Fact
Winston churchill was born in a ladies lavatory.

840. Fact
The chameleon has a tongue longer than its own body.

841. Fact
In 1999; the danish movie festen received a peculiar film award in germany for the worst dubbed movie.

842. Fact
If you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for nine more days until it starves to death.

843. Fact
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

844. Fact
During a flight, the concorde gets 7 to 8-inches longer. The heat from the friction causes the metal to expand.

845. Fact
There are more than 30,000 different kinds of roses.

846. Fact
The german friedrich sertner, when he managed to isolate the active substance from opium in 1806, gave the substance the name "morphine" after the greek god of sleep.

847. Fact
The koala is loved by children all over the world. But did you know that it's one of the sleepiest animals in the fauna? The koala spends 22 hours every day sleeping.

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