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.

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.

8119. Fact

A million dollars'worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 pounds.

8120. Fact

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom.

8121. Fact

A fly always jumps backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.

8122. Fact

Wesley Snipes installed public telephones while struggling to become an actor in New York.

8123. Fact

It is Texas law when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.

8124. Fact

The youngest actress to be nominated as best actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes who was nominated at just 13 years old

8125. Fact

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.

8126. Fact

The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C

8127. Fact

Including the 2000 World Series, there have been only three meetings between teams from the same city: 1906 (Cubs vs. White Sox), 1944 (Cardinals vs. Browns) and 2000 (Mets vs. Yankees).

8128. Fact

IT............. Repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.

8129. Fact

The only president buried on the grounds of a state capitol: James Polk in Nashville, Tenn.

8130. Fact

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

8131. Fact

The snail mates only once in it's entire life.

8132. Fact

In Colorado, there are about 83,000 dairy cows

8133. Fact

From all the states, Montana has the most different species of animals

8134. Fact

A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.

8135. Fact

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, Gadsby, which contains over 50,000 words, not a single word contained the letter E.

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