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..

8966. Fact

In Tulsa, Oklahoma the limit on kisses is three minutes (by law).

8967. Also known as

Original name : geoffrey chaucer
Also known as : father of english poetry..

8968. Fact

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

8969. Fact

The material to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of 1000 elephants

8970. Fact

Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out

8971. Fact

In seventy-five years the human heart pumps 3,122,000,000 gallons of blood, enough to fill in oil tanker over 46 times.

8972. Fact

Up until the early 20th century, New Jersey and Wisconsin had laws allowing the castration of epileptics

8973. Fact

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.

8974. Fact

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan once wore a Nazi uniform while acting in a film during his Hollywood days. The name of the movie was Desperate Journey, which was filmed in 1942

8975. Fact

Before soccer referees started using whistles in 1878, they used to rely on waving a handkerchief

8976. Fact

A pole vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.

8977. Fact

It was the left shoe that Cinderella lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right.

8978. Fact

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

8979. Fact

Most dinosaurs walked on their toes.

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