Fact Book

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

9540. Fact

In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.

9541. Fact

Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.

9542. Fact

There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.

9543. Also known as

Original name : adam smith
Also known as : father of economics

9544. Fact

Men generally prefer that their semen be swallowed rather than spit out because it provides a feeling of acceptance.

9545. Fact

The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is

9546. Fact

The hormone replacement drug Premarin is made from the urine of pregnant horses

9547. Fact

Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan in the United States, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes

9548. Fact

The 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles was the first time the three-level winner's stand was used for the medal ceremony.

9549. Fact

Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated

9550. Fact

Bunny rabbits poop almost every time they hop around in a newly-explored area.

9551. Fact

An ounce of gold can be stretched into a wire 50 miles long.

9552. Also known as

Original name : walter scott
Also known as : wizard of the north

9553. Fact

If you chew a cabbage/lettuce leaf properly, you'll lose more energy than you'll gain from actually eating it.

9554. Also known as

Original name : vallabhbhai patel
Also known as : iron man of india, bismarck of india.

9555. Fact

To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed

9556. Fact

An olive tree can live up to 1,500 years.

9557. Fact

The word nerd was first coined by Dr. Suess in the book If I Ran to the Zoo.

9558. Fact

Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

9559. Fact

For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier

9560. Fact

The cartoon character Popeye was actually based on a real person named Frank Rocky Fiegel who was a tough guy who was quite similar to Popeye physically

9561. Fact

The Ice Cream cone was invented in the summer of 1904 by Charles Menches. It made its debut one year later at the St. Louis World Fair

9562. Fact

It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.

9563. Fact

A new book is published every 13 minutes in America.

9564. Fact

Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms

9565. Fact

The laundry detergent Tide, has a market share of about forty percent market

9566. Fact

It would take about fourteen and half million notes of currency to build a mile high stack

9567. Fact

The total number of episodes for the sitcom I Love Lucy was 180

9568. Also known as

Original name : thomas cook
Also known as : father of modern tourism

9569. Fact

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket

9570. Fact

Is bottled water worth it? 'Evian'spelled backwards is 'naive'.

9571. Fact

The amount of drag or air resistance produced by putting your bicycle on top of your car is so great that on a trip from England to Scotland it would be cheaper to send it by train because of the fuel consumption to overcome the drag.

9572. Fact

Time magazine's Man of the Year for 1938 was Adolf Hitler.

9573. Fact

New Hampshire's license plates are stamped with the motto Live Free Or Die. They are made by prison inmates.

9574. Fact

There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue

9575. Also known as

Original name : st. nicholas
Also known as : santa claus

9576. Also known as

Original name : t.t. krishnamachari
Also known as : t.t.k.'

9577. Fact

The first percussion instrument introduced to an orchestra was the kettledrums, then called the timpani, in the 1600s.