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.

8097. Fact

The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins.

8098. Fact

Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female?s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time

8099. Fact

Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.

8100. Fact

While sailing along the Caribbean coast of South America in 1499, the Spanish explorer Alonso de Ojedo saw Indian houses built on stilts over the water. The area reminded him of Venice, and he named it Little Venice, which in Spanish is Venezuela.

8101. Fact

Mozart sold one of his most prized pieces, Symphony No. 5 for under $20.

8102. Fact

The youngest pope was 11 years old

8103. Fact

In Japan, condoms are commonly sold 'door to door'.

8104. Fact

The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours

8105. Fact

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap

8106. Fact

Pluto is the only planet in our solar system that has not been visited by a spacecraft

8107. Fact

The only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper: Woodrow Wilson, who was laid to rest in the National Cathedral.

8108. Fact

A Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with vagrants, thieves and other suspicious characters.

8109. Fact

It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States

8110. Fact

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

8111. Fact

There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date.

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