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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
8112. Fact
Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical
8113. Fact
During the winter, squirrels make waterproof nests in hollow trees.
8114. Fact
Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
8115. Fact
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.
8116. Fact
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
8117. Fact
The bible does not specify exactly how many wise men were sent to Bethleham.
8118. Fact
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie, the developers of the candy in 1941.
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