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

8404. Fact

About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.

8405. Fact

Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood

8406. Fact

to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!)

8407. Fact

An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

8408. Fact

The Philippines consist of 2,100 islands.

8409. Fact

The characters of Homer, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie were given the same first names as Simpsons creator Matt Groening's real-life father, mother, and two sisters.

8410. Fact

Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand

8412. Fact

Many people find stimulation (kissing, tickling, caressing) of the abdomen pleasurable, especially close to the pubic region.

8413. Fact

From a complete stop, a human is capable of outrunning a Formula One Racecar for about 30 feet.

8414. Fact

The word Nike comes from Greek Mythology. Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted as a small winged figure whom the goddess Athene carried

8415. Fact

In Chillicothe, Ohio it is illegal to throw rice at weddings.

8416. Fact

The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

8417. Fact

Kodak is the first chain store to open in Antarctica.

8418. Fact

The original name for butterfly was flutterby

8419. Fact

In 1845, inventor Thomas Adams started the world's first chewing gum factory.

8420. Fact

An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day

8421. Fact

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee.

8422. Fact

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color

8423. Fact

Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers

8424. Fact

Sliced bread was patented in 1954.

8425. Fact

A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute

8426. Animal Facts

The female black widow spider eats the male after mating, sometimes eating up to twentyfive partners a day. Now that's a man-eater!

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