9489. Fact

If someone was to fly once around the surface of the moon, it would be equal to a round trip from New York to London

9490. Fact

Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed

9491. Fact

The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots.

9492. Fact

The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.

9493. Fact

In the last three centuries, 90% of all people living in the Western world have switched from tea to coffee.

9494. Fact

Just about 3 people are born every second, and about 1.3333 people die every second. The result is about a 2 and 2/3 net increase of people every second. Almost 10 people more live on this Earth now, than before you finished reading this.

9495. Fact

Talc was used by cavemen 15,000 years ago as an ingredient added to make paint

9496. Fact

The average American consumes 9 pounds of food additives every year.

9497. Fact

Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables

9498. Fact

Probably the best known multiple meaning is the hebrew word SHALOM which means, alternately, hello, good-bye, and peace.

9499. Fact

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

9500. Fact

Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality

9501. Fact

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers (they saw it as competition).

9502. Fact

The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.

9503. Fact

In the UK, one third of accidental deaths that happen occur in the home

9504. Fact

There have been fewer people below 2km in the sea than have been on the moon.

9505. Also known as

Original name : chittaranjan das
Also known as : deshbandhu

9506. Fact

A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows

9507. Fact

The first U.S. patent for an animal was issued to Harvard University in 1988 for an oncomouse, a genetically engineered mouse that's susceptible to breast cancer. It's used to test anti-cancer therapies.

9508. Also known as

Original name : c. rajagopalachari
Also known as : c.r. rajaji

9509. Fact

The sound made by the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is so loud that it can be heard 40 miles away

9510. Fact

Jim Bristoe, an American, invented a 30-foot-long, 2-ton pumpkin cannon that can fire pumpkins up to five miles.

9511. Fact

Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.

9512. Fact

A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school

9513. Fact

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".

9514. Fact

A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour

9515. Fact

The longest railway in the world is the Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad, built 1891-1916, a network of railways connecting European Russia with Russian Far East provinces. It is 9,288.2 kilometres (5,787 miles) long and spans 8 time zones.

9516. Fact

Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living

9517. Fact

In 1905, 18 men died from injuries sustained on the football field. President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and instituted safety measures to make the game safer.

9518. Fact

All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st

9519. Fact

The earth is the most densest planet in the solar system, and is the only planet not named after a god.

9520. Fact

Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.

9521. Fact

Human beings can't smell or taste a substance that is not soluble. On a dry tongue, sugar has no taste. In a dry nose, the smell of a flower would not be noticed. Anything to be smelled must float in the air.

9522. Fact

The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie Free Willy) from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998

9523. Fact

NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing

9524. Fact

Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court

9525. Fact

The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897

9526. Fact

Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks

9528. Also known as

Original name : andrei d. sakharov
Also known as : father of the (soviet) hydrogen bomb

9529. Fact

Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team

9530. Fact

MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought of the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history

9531. Fact

It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago

9532. Fact

The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams

9533. Fact

Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States

9534. Fact

Olympic badminton rules say that the bird has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

9535. Fact

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

9536. Fact

The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.

9537. Fact

Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.

9538. Fact

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.

9539. Fact

The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82

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