8636. Animal Facts

Dogs in New York, USA, produce 18 million kilograms (40 million pounds) of faeces a year. Luckily, New Yorkers have to clear up after their dogs.

8637. Fact

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

8638. Fact

The oldest patented company logo is the red triangle of Bass beers.

8639. Fact

The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china.

8640. Fact

Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.

8641. Fact

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its'heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

8642. Animal Facts

A cockroach can live for a week after its head is cut off.

8643. Fact

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

8644. Fact

The tips of fingers and the soles of feet are covered by a thick, tough layer of skin called the stratum corneum.

8645. Fact

To women, a man's buttocks are the most admired part of his body.

8646. Fact

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

8647. Fact

In America, approximately 25% of kids aged 6-14 have a magaznie subscription

8648. Fact

There is no element on Mendeleev's (the current) periodic table of elements abbreviated, either partially, or fully, with the letter J.

8649. Fact

The original purpose of the coffin was to prevent the dearly departed from coming back and haunting the survivors.

8650. Fact

The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou

8651. Animal Facts

Light-coloured spots on surfaces of food show a fly has vomited something up and tasted the surface; dark-coloured spots are fly faeces.

8652. Fact

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year'ssupply of footballs.

8653. Fact

Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60

8654. Fact

The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair

8655. Fact

Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets

8656. Animal Facts

A scorpion can go for a whole year without eating.

8657. Animal Facts

As cockroaches grow, they develop a new skin inside their old one, eventually splitting the old one.This new skin is white until it hardens in the air and becomes dark.

8658. Fact

The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats.

8659. Fact

A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building

8660. Fact

Earthworms have five hearts

8661. Fact

In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa

8662. Fact

People with blue eyes are better able to see in the dark.

8663. Fact

The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.

8664. Fact

Tortoises drink water through their noses.

8665. Fact

In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it

8666. Fact

The Bible was written by about 40 men over a period of about 1600 years dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.

8667. Fact

Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids

8668. Fact

In a survey conducted in 2000 by Kimberly-Clark, it was found that men prefer to fold their toilet paper, and women like to wad it

8669. Animal Facts

The glass frog has a transparent body – its blood vessels, stomach and beating heart are all visible.

8670. Fact

US gold coins used to say In Gold We Trust.

8671. Fact

People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs.

8672. Fact

A female swine or sow will always have an even number of teats or nipples.

8673. Fact

In a year, about 90 million jars of Skippy Peanut Butter are sold. This works out to three jars sold every second

8674. Fact

There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

8675. Fact

The chow-chow and the Chinesse Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have a black tongue. The tongues of all other dogs are pink.

8676. Fact

A 'jiffy'is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second

8677. Fact

There was once a town in West Virginia called 6.

8678. Fact

In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse.

8679. Fact

It's impossible to lick your elbow.

8680. Fact

Steve McQueen persuaded his karate teacher, kickboxing champion Chuck Norris, to pursue acting.

8681. Fact

Detroit policeman William L. Potts is credited with inventing the modern street traffic light in 1920. He worked out an electric light system that allowed him to control three street intersections from one tower He picked the red, yellow and green because railroads used them.

8682. Animal Facts

The pearl fish swims into a sea cucumber's anus and lives inside it in the day time, coming out at night.The sea cucumber breathes through its anus, so can't keep the fish out!

8683. Fact

According to Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard 5km (3.3 miles) away.

8684. Fact

97% of all paper money in the US contains traces of cocaine

8685. Fact

When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called Soundabout in the U.S., Stowaway in the U.K., and Freestyle in Australia

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