Fact Book

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.

8916. Fact
Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison

8917. Fact
Astronauts become between two and three inches taller when in space.

8918. Fact
Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.

8919. Also known as
Original name : jayaprakash narayan
Also known as : 'j.p'; loknayak.

8920. Fact
Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.

8921. Fact
Honeybees have hair on their eyes

8922. Fact
There are some species of snails that are venomous. Their venom can be fatal to humans

8923. Fact
Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight

8924. Fact
In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty

8925. Fact
Muhammad Ali won his heavyweight championships on three continents: North America, Asia, and Africa.

8926. Fact
65% of the candy that is produced in an year is consumed by American adults 18 years and older

8927. Fact
Pitcher Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game in 1944. Nuxhall, the youngest pitcher in major league baseball, was only 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old when he pitched that game against the St. Louis Cardinals.

8928. Fact
The Willamette River in Oregon is the only river on earth that flows it's entire distance north.

8929. Fact
On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs

8930. Also known as
Original name : j.r.d. tata
Also known as : father of civil aviation in india..

8931. Fact
Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle

8932. Fact
There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, CA

8933. Fact
The youngest movie star to win an Academy Award was Shirly Temple who won an Oscar in 1934 at the age of 6.

8934. Fact
Americans did not commonly use forks until after the Civil War

8935. Fact
The world's first adhesive postage stamp went on sale in England in 1840. It was the Penny Black, portraying Queen Victoria.

8936. Fact
Yellowstone is the world's 1st national park. It was dedicated in 1872.

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