8866. Fact

In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is

8867. Fact

In ancient times, any Japanese who tried to leave his homeland was put to death.

8868. Fact

The first patented condom was meant to be reused.

8869. Fact

Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better

8870. Fact

Many men masturbate daily, or even more frequently, well into their 20s and sometimes far beyond.

8871. Fact

Every second, 630 steel cans are recycled

8872. Fact

The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

8873. Fact

Soldiers disease' is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

8874. Fact

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

8875. Fact

Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.

8876. Fact

Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V

8877. Fact

Most lipstick contains fish scales

8878. Fact

Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.

8879. Fact

Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world

8880. Fact

The first Ford cars used Dodge engines.

8881. Fact

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

8882. Fact

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

8883. Fact

Detroit, Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other city in the USA

8884. Fact

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

8885. Fact

Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.

8886. Fact

World s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.

8887. Fact

500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris

8888. Fact

Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935

8889. Fact

In Johannesburg, the average car will be involved in an accident once every four years.

8890. Fact

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do

8891. Fact

Freshens the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang one in the closet.

8892. Fact

Peanuts are salted in the shell by boiling them in a heavily salted solution, then allowing them to dry.

8893. Fact

The state that grows the most cranberries is Wisconsin. More than 300 million pounds of cranberries are grown in Wisconsin

8894. Fact

The 1st performance of Handel's Messiah was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music rooms in Fishamble St., Dublin. Because of the demand for space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and the ladies not to wear hooped skirts.

8895. Fact

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb

8896. Fact

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.

8897. Fact

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

8898. Fact

Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses

8899. Fact

In Wyoming it is illegal to tattoo a horse with the intent of making it unrecognizable to its owner.

8900. Fact

The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas

8901. Fact

In 1992, when EuroDisney first opened in France, the public beat some of the park characters because at the time most people had been against the park being built

8902. Also known as

Original name : k.m. cariappa
Also known as : kipper, grand old man of indian army..

8903. Also known as

Original name : kato ichire
Also known as : dr. robot..

8904. Fact

A Californian doctor has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.

8905. Fact

There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a diameter over three feet

8906. Fact

The name Aspirin was invented from A in acetyl chloride. The spir comes from spiraea ulmaria which is the plant that they got the salicylic acid from, and the in was used because back then it was popular to end the name of medicines with in.

8907. Fact

In Corpus Christi, Texas, raising alligators in your home is against the law.

8908. Fact

The first police force was established in Paris in 1667.

8909. Fact

Oscar Wilde and his friends came up the with the word dude. It came from the words duds and attitude.

8910. Fact

On average, Americans spend about 6 months of their lives waiting at red traffic lights.

8911. Fact

The octopus'testicles are located in its head.

8912. Fact

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time

8913. Fact

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter e.

8914. Fact

It is against the law in Oregon to get married in your bathing suit.

8915. Fact

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.

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