Fact Book

8359. Fact

The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

8360. Fact

On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months

8361. Fact

The sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

8362. Fact

Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror

8363. Fact

The shore of the Dead Sea in Israel-Jordan is 1312 feet (400 meter) below sea level.

8364. Fact

A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries

8365. Fact

Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses.

8366. Fact

Light travels at the rate of 186,200 miles a second.

8367. Animal Facts

Some leeches have three mouths, with up to a hundred teeth.

8368. Fact

The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns.

8369. Fact

The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years

8370. Fact

In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned

8371. Fact

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an 'Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.'"

8372. Fact

An average human drinks about 16, 000 gallons of water in a lifetime.

8373. Fact

Men can read smaller print than women.

8374. Fact

The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes

8375. Fact

In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present

8376. Fact

The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

8377. Fact

Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.

8378. Fact

The state of Utah used to be submerged under water and to this day brine shrimp can still be found in rain-filled hollows under rocks and boulders.

8379. Fact

Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name

8380. Fact

There are approximately 13,000 identifiable varieties of roses throughout the world.

8381. Fact

On average it takes a shark seven days to replace a tooth

8382. Fact

Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year.

8383. Fact

The official sport for the State of Maryland is jousting.

8384. Fact

One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.

8385. Fact

A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay

8386. Fact

Until 1967 it wasn't illegal for Olympic athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance during competition.

8387. Fact

The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.

8388. Fact

The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon

8389. Fact

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' is the actual name of a village in northern Wales

8390. Fact

The property (ID, Facts) VALUES on the Monopoly game board are the same today as they were in 1935

8391. Fact

Oprah Winfrey was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in Nashville at WTVF-TV

8392. Fact

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

8393. Fact

If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word of the sentence: May I have a large container of coffee? If you get the coffee and are polite say: Thank you, get two more decimal places. (3.141592653...). Here is another sentance: How I wish I could calculate Pi. (3.141592)

8394. Fact

People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache

8395. Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months, and 6 days, you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

8396. Fact

Poop is a verb.

8397. Fact

Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually

8398. Fact

Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the first pitch at a MLB game.

8399. Fact

If a person has two thirds of their liver removed through trauma or surgery, it will grow back to the original size in four weeks time

8400. Fact

The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes

8401. Fact

The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period (220 a.d.-280 a.d.).

8402. Fact

Children are more allergic to cockroaches than they are to cats.

8403. Fact

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change