8812. Fact

Twit is the name given for a pregnant goldfish

8813. Fact

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

8814. Fact

The average American drinks 400 glasses of milk in a year

8815. Fact

When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.

8816. Fact

The silkworm consumes 86000 times its own weight in 56 days.

8817. Fact

Termites outnumber humans ten to one.

8818. Fact

The White House has a movie theater, swimming pool, bowling lane, jogging track, and a tennis court

8819. Fact

The average number of people that go to a party for the Super Bowl is 17

8820. Fact

Coney Island in New York got its name from rabbits. In early days it was overrun by rabbits, which were often referred to as coneys.

8821. Fact

In 1947, Toys for Tots started making the holidays a little happier for children by organizing its first Christmas toy drive for needy youngsters.

8822. Fact

Two U.S. Presidents with the initials J.M. followed each other as president.

8823. Fact

In Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift described the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, giving their exact size and speeds of rotation. He did this more that a hundred years before either moon was discovered.

8824. Fact

In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests

8825. Fact

As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp. Basically it plays dead

8826. Fact

President George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart in 1782. It's a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.

8827. Fact

The blackberry bush is also called the bramble.

8828. Also known as

Original name : m.f. robespierre
Also known as : the incorruptible.

8829. Fact

In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a loonie because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the twonie because it is the equivalent of two loonies.

8830. Fact

The rate of condom breakage is between 0.4% and 2.3%, while the rate of condom slippage is between 0.6% and 1.3%.

8831. Fact

The full name of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is actually Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

8832. Fact

Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.

8833. Fact

The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs

8834. Fact

Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.

8835. Fact

Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, novelist Morgan Robertson published a novel called Futility. The story was about an ocean liner that struck an iceberg on an April night. The name of the ship in his novel was The Titan.

8836. Fact

You sit on the biggest muscle in your body, the gluteus maximus a.k.a the butt. Each of the two cheeky muscles tips the scales at about two pounds (not including the overlying fat layer). The tiniest muscle, the stapedius of the middle ear, is just one-fifth of an inch long.

8837. Fact

Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials

8838. Fact

The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time

8839. Fact

In the movie Gandhi 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free

8840. Fact

James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River in an event witnessed by George Washington.

8841. Fact

The Miss America Contest was created in Atlantic City in 1921 with the purpose of extending the tourist season beyond Labor Day.

8842. Fact

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years

8843. Fact

Cows can detect odors up to five miles away

8844. Fact

The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year

8845. Fact

Mules are genetically sterile. i.e. they cannot reproduce.

8846. Fact

If you wanted to count from one to one trillion and you started right now, counting twenty-four hours a day, it would take you about 31,688 years.

8847. Fact

Sir Isaac Newton, who invented Calculus, had trouble with names to the point where he would forget his brothers' names.

8848. Fact

Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.

8849. Fact

Peaches were once known as Persian apples

8850. Fact

The Canadian province of New Brunswick had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839

8851. Fact

Americans spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.

8852. Fact

The three most valuable brand names on earth Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

8853. Fact

The expression three dog night originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.

8854. Fact

The electric shaver was patented on November 6, 1928.

8855. Fact

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America

8856. Fact

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

8857. Fact

The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles

8858. Fact

Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years

8859. Fact

The first television show to show any portion of a toilet was on Leave it to Beaver. After fighting for ten weeks to show the toilet, CBS would only allow the producers to show the toilet tank, and not the whole toilet

8860. Fact

An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet

8861. Fact

The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear

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