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.

8469. Fact

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... maybe at work.)

8470. Fact

When a person dies, hearing is generally the last sense to go. The first sense lost is usually sight. Then follows taste, smell, and touch.

8471. Fact

Butterflies taste with their feet

8472. Fact

Owen Falls Lake is the largest man-made lake in the world

8473. Fact

Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.

8474. Fact

James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, stood only five feet four inches tall and weighed less than one hundred pounds.

8475. Fact

The sea contains about 1/2 of the world's known animal groups.

8476. Fact

Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion

8477. Fact

Larger Stingrays have the power to drive their stingers or tail-spines through the hulls of wooden boats.

8478. Fact

In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money

8479. Fact

Amelia Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.

8480. Fact

In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.

8481. Fact

Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death

8482. Fact

The General Lee cars used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers

Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize : Chemistry
Year : 1945
Name : artturi i. virtanen
Country : finland.      .. More >>