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.

8937. Fact

Water expands 9% when it is frozen

8938. Fact

¥ A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

8939. Fact

The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave It To Beaver

8940. Fact

Over 20 million BluBlocker sunglasses have been sold since its debut in 1986. They now come in over 100 different styles

8941. Fact

The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat

8942. Also known as

Original name : hippocrates
Also known as : father of medicine.

8943. Fact

The labels for Crayola crayons come in 18 different colors

8944. Fact

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world

8945. Fact

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

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