8149. Fact

Male feral rabbits urinate on the females to state their ownership.

8150. Fact

There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people

8151. Fact

The chances for a mother giving birth to quadruplets (four children) are almost 1 in 600,000.

8152. Fact

A man and woman in Mexico city were engaged for 67 yrs and finally married at the age of 82 yrs.

8153. Fact

True spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinnerets

8154. Fact

In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones

8155. Fact

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing

8156. Fact

In 1836 the U.S. government had so much extra money that it repaid all its debts, and still had money left over.

8157. Fact

Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun.

8158. Fact

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

8159. Fact

An ounce of gold can be beaten up into a sheet covering 9.3 sq. meters, or drawn into 80.5 kms (50 miles) of wire.

8160. Fact

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

8161. Fact

All of Chrysler's PT Cruisers are built in Mexico.

8162. Fact

In the year 1763, there were over 200 coffee shops in Venice.

8163. Fact

The first toothbrush with bristles was developed in China in 1498. Bristles were taken from hogs at first, later from horses. The nylon bristles were developed in 1938 by DuPont.

8164. Fact

For every degree of longitude there is a time gap of four minutes.

8165. Fact

Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight

8166. Fact

Only one in two billion people will live to be 116 or older.

8167. Fact

More than 3000 years ago children played with circular hoops made with grape vines. This toy was swung around the waist. Years later this toy was made by company called Wham-O and the Hula-Hoop was invented in 1958

8168. Fact

Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever

8169. Fact

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.

8170. Fact

For the movie Tootsie actor Dustin Hoffman thought of the title. His mother used to call him that as a child

8171. Fact

There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand

8172. Fact

The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet

8173. Fact

More than 260,000 people have been killed by volcanic activity since 1700 AD.

8174. Fact

An elephant could carry up to 2 gallons of water in its trunk.

8175. Fact

The Gulf Stream could carry a message in a bottle at an average of 4 miles per hour.

8176. Fact

A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement

8177. Fact

An insect exerts so much energy in one hour of flying that it may lose as much as a third of its total body weight.

8178. Fact

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury

8179. Fact

The channel between England and France grows 300mm each year.

8180. Animal Facts

Vampire bats urinate the whole time they're sucking blood. This ensures they don't get so full of blood they're too heavy to fly. So, smarter than a vulture, then!

8181. Fact

Worms reportedly taste like bacon.

8182. Fact

In the US, federal law states that children's TV shows may contain only 10 minutes of advertising per hour and on weekends the limit is 10 and one-half minutes.

8183. Fact

If the average person had started counting the moment they were born and continued counting, without stopping, until they turned 65 years old, they still would not have counted to a billion.

8184. Fact

In Kentucky you need a license to walk around nude on your property.

8185. Fact

Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

8186. Fact

Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage

8187. Fact

People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones

8188. Fact

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to bring the back teeth together for chewing.

8189. Fact

Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.

8190. Fact

In 1962, the Mashed Potato, the Loco-Motion, the Frug, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken were popular dances.

8191. Fact

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on theground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

8192. Animal Facts

A dustbin can produce 30,000 flies a week from eggs laid in the rotting rubbish it contains.

8193. Fact

The watch was invented by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg in 1510.

8194. Fact

The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4'9.

8195. Fact

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down -- hence the expression "to get fired".

8196. Fact

Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor dissapears.

8197. Fact

The word America comes from the European explorer Amerigo Vespucci

8198. Fact

The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones

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