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!

8427. Fact

The main road in Hershey, PA (where Hershey's candy bars are made) is Chocolate Avenue.

8428. Fact

Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs

8429. Fact

The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long

8430. Fact

Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states

8431. Fact

The world's number one producer and consumer of fresh pork is China.

8432. Fact

Wet sand weighs less than dry sand.

8433. Fact

The Virginia Code (1930) has a statute: To prohibit corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than candidates.

8434. Fact

India has the most post offices in the world

8435. Fact

Sting got his name from a black and yellow striped sweater he would wear a lot.

8436. Fact

The distress code 'Mayday'comes from the French for help me, M'Aide.

8437. Fact

If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.

8438. Animal Facts

A baby robin eats 4 metres (14 feet) of earthworms a day!

8439. Fact

Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married

8440. Fact

Bats can detect food up to 18 feet away and what type of insect the food may be using their sense of echolocation

8441. Fact

The first telephone call from the White House was from Rutherford Hayes to Alexander Graham Bell

8442. Fact

Taipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snake

8443. Fact

The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long

8444. Fact

As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.

8445. Fact

Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie

8446. Fact

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray

8447. Animal Facts

A chameleon's tongue can be twice as long as its body, and must be kept curled to fit inside it.

8448. Fact

The states of Washington and Montana still execute prisoners by hanging.

8449. Fact

99% of the blueberries that are produced in the United States are produced in the state of Maine

8450. Fact

The longest Monopoly game ever played was 1,680 hours long, which is seventy straight days

8451. Fact

In Australia, there is no death penalty.

8452. Fact

The most popular ethnic food in the United States is Italian food

8453. Fact

The top downhill speed of the Ford Model T was 50 miles per hour.

8454. Fact

Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver in 1836.

8455. Fact

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

8456. Fact

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon.

8457. Fact

Lipogram refers to writing that does not have certain letter or letters

8458. Fact

In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a fifty pound rock. More than twenty people witnessed the ceremony

8459. Fact

Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nation

8460. Fact

As part of the original design, the names of 72 French scientists and other famous people is imprinted on the sides of the Eiffel tower

8461. Animal Facts

The turkey vulture excretes faeces onto its legs to keep them cool.

8462. Fact

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

8463. Fact

Cows sweat through their noses.

8464. Fact

The smallest frog is the Brazilian baby frog, which is smaller than a dime

8465. Fact

The fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour.

8466. Fact

You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.

8467. Fact

Over 30% of women discover their HIV status after their husbands are diagnosed.

8468. Fact

The country of Losotho is completely surrounded by the country of South Africa.

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