8980. Fact

Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nicholas who brings presents to children on New Year's Eve.

8981. Fact

The first bath tub to be installed in the white house was during the time of Millard Fillmore.

8982. Fact

The word Checkmate in chess comes from the Persian phrase Shah Mat, which means the king (shah) is dead (mat).

8983. Fact

A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet

8984. Fact

The first company that Bill Gates ever ran created machines that would record the number of cars passing a given point on a street.

8985. Fact

Kikkoman soy sauce was originated in 1630 in Japan.

8986. Also known as

Original name : ernest rutherford
Also known as : father of nuclear physics..

8987. Also known as

Original name : dwight david eisenhower
Also known as : lke.

8988. Fact

Male lions somtimes kill their own kids if they seem like a threat or take the attention of their mate.

8989. Fact

Badgers and coyotes hunt ground squirrels together. The badger tracks the squirrel and digs into its tunnels, and the coyote catches it when it tries to escape.

8990. Fact

The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937

8991. Fact

The word Cotton originates from the Arabic word Qutun.

8992. Fact

The word 'set'has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8993. Fact

Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States

8994. Fact

Chinese Crested dogs can get acne

8995. Fact

The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens

8996. Fact

Water that is safe to drink is referred to as POTABLE

8997. Fact

Singapore has only one train station.

8998. Fact

Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.

8999. Fact

Some Chinese chopsticks contain gold as on of their materials

9000. Fact

The only state to grow pineapples is Hawaii

9001. Fact

Laika the dog, was the first living thing which was sent to space.

9002. Fact

About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe.

9003. Fact

Some farmers in Japan have learned to grow their watermelons into a square shape. They did this to conserve shelf space

9004. Fact

There is a city called Rome in every continent.

9005. Fact

The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.

9006. Fact

On average a person passes gas 14 times a day

9007. Fact

The meaning of Siberia is sleeping land.

9008. Fact

On average, every American consumes 109 pounds of beef a year.

9009. Fact

The Australian box-jellyfish has eight eyes

9010. Fact

Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840

9011. Fact

Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.

9012. Fact

The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.

9013. Fact

Six ounces of orange juice contains the minimum daily requirement for vitamin C.

9014. Fact

More than 100 professional cyclists participate in the Tour de France every year and the race is over 3,200 kilometers

9015. Fact

Six eight-stud Lego pieces can be combined 102,981,500 ways.

9016. Also known as

Original name : dadabhai naoroji
Also known as : grand old man of india; father of indian politics and economics..

9017. Fact

There are at least two words in the English language that use all of the vowels, in the correct order, and end in the letter Y: abstemiously and facetiously.

9018. Fact

Kim Basinger fears large crowds. She even locked herself in her house for 4 months because of this fear.

9019. Fact

Corned beef got its name because this beef was preserved with pellets of salt that were the size of corn kernels, which was also referred to as corns of salt

9020. Also known as

Original name : c.f. andrews
Also known as : deenabandhu.

9021. Fact

Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.

9022. Fact

Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes

9023. Fact

The average person ingests about a ton of food and drink each year.

9024. Fact

The numbers 172 can be found on the back of a US $5 bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln memorial.

9025. Fact

The G in 'g-string'stand for groin.

9026. Fact

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.

9027. Fact

Using recycled aluminum cans and making news cans out of them saves 75% energy compared to making it from new material.

9028. Also known as

Original name : bal gangadhar tilak
Also known as : lokmanya; father of indian unrest.

9029. Fact

5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US

Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize : Physiology or Medicine
Year : 1939
Name : gerhard domagk
Country : germany.      .. More >>