8047. Fact

Fickleheaded and fiddledeedee are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

8048. Fact

US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.

8049. Fact

40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate

8050. Fact

Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.

8051. Fact

In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring

8052. Fact

Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater.

8053. Fact

Shell color is determined by the breed of hen and has no effect on its quality, nutrients or flavor.

8054. Fact

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people

8055. Fact

The word 'News'is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South.

8056. Fact

There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.

8057. Fact

Annually, British people eat more than 15 pounds of beans

8058. Animal Facts

You could get bitten by a crocodile, but alligators don't like the taste of people.

8059. Fact

Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.

8060. Fact

The chewing gum Juicy Fruit has 10 calories. This is approximately the same as a bite of whole wheat bread

8061. Fact

Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever.

8062. Fact

Popeye is 34 years old, weighs 158 lbs, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall

8063. Fact

Paper was invented in the early second century by a Chinese eunuch.

8064. Fact

Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen

8065. Fact

1 out of every 4 kids in the USA is overweight

8066. Fact

Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not

8067. Fact

Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.

8068. Fact

Turtles have no teeth.

8069. Fact

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. The last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

8070. Animal Facts

A single bat can eat 3,000–7,000 mosquitoes in a single night; a colony of 500 bats gets through a quarter of a million bugs an hour.

8071. Fact

Atilla the hun was a dwarf.

8072. Fact

The largest wedding chapel in Las Vegas is the Viva Las Vegas Chapel, which can seat 100 people

8073. Fact

The first Rose Bowl game was held in 1902 in Pasadena, California. The University of Michigan beat Sanford 49-0.

8074. Fact

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon

8075. Fact

Polar bears are left handed

8076. Fact

Alaska got its name from the Aluet word Alyeska which means The Great Land.

8077. Fact

It has been reported that some dogs are able to sniff out skin cancer.

8078. Fact

A group of crows is called a murder.

8079. Fact

In Nevada it is illegal to ride a camel on the highway.

8080. Fact

It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones

8081. Fact

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards

8082. Fact

The only sound Seahorses make is a small clicking or popping sound during feeding or courtship

8083. Fact

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.

8084. Fact

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

8085. Fact

People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing

8086. Fact

The Dutch acquired Surinam in exchange for Manhattan Island in 1667.

8087. Fact

It is illegal for a man to kiss a woman while she is asleep in Logan County, Colorado.

8088. Fact

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

8089. Fact

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'.

8090. Fact

In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) does not blink in any scene.

8091. Fact

Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate

8092. Fact

Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris

8093. Fact

I am. is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language

8094. Fact

A gelotologist is a person who studies laughter

8095. Fact

Over the last 50 years in the United States, approximately 9,000 people have died as a result of tornadoes, 5,000 as the result of floods, and 4,000 as the result of hurricanes.

8096. Fact

Walter Huston and his son John become the first father-and-son team to win Oscars as director of and an actor in Treasure of Sierra Madre in 1949.

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