9386. Fact

Most landfilled trash retains its original weight, volume, and form for 40 years.

9387. Fact

In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived

9388. Fact

The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972

9389. Fact

Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus.

9390. Fact

The movie that grossed the most money that was adapted from a T.V. cartoon is Scooby-Doo

9391. Fact

The New York Yankees have won the most champoinships (26 times) in their respected sport (MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL) for any professional sports team.

9392. Fact

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated

9393. Fact

In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer

9394. Fact

There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada

9395. Fact

The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.

9396. Fact

When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia

9397. Fact

The four highest grossing movies of the 1940s were all animated motion pictures by Disney (Bambi, Pinnochio, Fantasia, and Cinderella).

9398. Fact

On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day

9399. Fact

The expression Tying the Knot comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots

9400. Fact

The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red

9401. Fact

The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning to build.

9402. Fact

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

9403. Fact

The coldest capital city in the world is Ulaan Bator, Mongolia.

9404. Fact

A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour

9405. Fact

TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard

9406. Fact

There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.

9407. Fact

Rembrandt died broke. A friend had to come up with the $5.20 it cost to bury the great master.

9408. Fact

In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast

9409. Fact

Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.

9410. Fact

Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton

9411. Fact

There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the US

9412. Fact

One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years

9413. Fact

Of all the countries, Brazil has the most plant species, with over 56,000

9414. Fact

You speak about 4,800 words per day.

9415. Fact

An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.

9416. Fact

There are more kinds of bacteria in your mouth then there are people in the world.

9417. Fact

The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port.

9418. Fact

The first suburban shopping mall was opened in 1922 by National Department Stores in Saint Louis.

9419. Fact

A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery

9420. Fact

There are 691 drinking fountains in the Pentagon

9421. Also known as

Original name : herodotus
Also known as : father of history

9422. Fact

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q'is the least used.

9423. Fact

Author Dr. Seuss wrote the book Green Eggs and Ham because the editor made him a bet that he could not write a book, which contained less than fifty words

9424. Fact

In Chinese, the words 'crisis' and 'opportunity' are the same.

9425. Also known as

Original name : giovanni baccaccio
Also known as : father of the novel

9426. Fact

Playing cards in India are round.

9427. Fact

Most lipstick have fish scales

9429. Fact

The first fashion house to be set up was in 1858 by Charles Worth. He opened his store in Paris with the idea of having pre-made gowns presented on models to his customers

9430. Fact

On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually

9431. Fact

The word umbrella is derived from the Latin root word umbra, which means shade or shadow

9432. Fact

The horse shoe crab has blue blood which can be used to kill bacteria

9433. Fact

The state official motto of Alaska is North to the Future

9434. Fact

The largest hotel in the world is the MGM Grand, which has 5,034 rooms and is located in Las Vegas, Nevada

9435. Fact

The rarest chocolate bar in the world is the Porcelana bar. There are only 20,000 of these bars produced a year, and they sell for $90 per pound

9436. Fact

On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the 1 encased in the shield and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner

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