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.

8946. Fact

In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas

8947. Fact

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000

8948. Fact

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food

8949. Fact

In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin

8950. Fact

Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak

8951. Fact

The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

8952. Fact

The sun weighs 330,000 times as much as the earth.

8953. Fact

An elephant trunk has no bone but 40,000 muscles.

8954. Fact

Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.

8955. Fact

People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone

8956. Fact

It is illegal in Georgia to use profanity in the presence of a corpse.

8957. Fact

Camel's milk, which is widely drunk in Arab countries, has 10 times more iron than cow's milk.

8958. Fact

27% of female lottery winners hid their winning ticket in their bras

8959. Fact

In 1969, the American side of Niagara Falls was stopped completely for several months

8960. Fact

To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

8961. Fact

Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste

8962. Fact

The salute of uniform bodies (eg. army, police) originated from knights who lifted their visors to show their face to a royalty.

8963. Fact

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.

8964. Fact

Mexican Jumping Beans jump because of moth larvae inside them.

8965. Also known as

Original name : gurcharan singh
Also known as : ground old man of indian pottery, daddyji..

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