Fact Book
9595. Fact
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out
9597. Fact
Celery does make you lose calories, it doesn't have a special chemical to do so but it has no calories so the chewing burns the calories burned.
9598. Fact
The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.
9599. Fact
The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes.
9600. Fact
Parma ham is only Parma ham if it is made in the Parma region of Italy. The British chain supermarket Asda, made and packaged its own Parma ham and was successfully sued by the real Parma ham people (Parma Ham Trade Association)
9601. Fact
In Australia, a dust-devil is called a willy-willy
9602. Fact
With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches
9603. Fact
In Chicago, it is illegal to take a french poodle to the opera.
9604. Fact
Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930
9605. Fact
In some parts of England, rum is used to wash a baby's head for good luck.
9606. Fact
Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
9607. Fact
Watermelons grown along the Tigris River have been known to reach as much as 275 pounds.
9608. Fact
There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America
9609. Fact
US presidents who served an entire term without a vice president: John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester Arthur.
9610. Fact
Latte is the Italian word for milk. So if you request a latte' in Italy, you'll be served milk.
9611. Fact
The TV show Doctor Who, when it was popular, had an audience of 110 million people
9612. Fact
There are over 200 parts in a typical telephone
9613. Fact
In 1964, University of Oregon grad student Carolyn Davidson designed what became known as the Nike swoosh; for a mere $35. She did it four years after Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports.
9614. Fact
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
9615. Also known as
Original name : shakti chattapadhyaya
Also known as : robert frost of west bengal.
9616. Fact
At Arkansas State University two people cannot hold hands while standing in a doorway unless they belong to a union.
9617. Fact
A car traveling 100 m.p.h. would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
9618. Fact
The period between midnight and dawn is the best time to look for shooting stars. On a normal night you can see between five and ten an hour. In a desert, you can see one every eight minutes.
9619. Fact
Whooping cranes are born with blue eyes that change to bright gold by the time they six months old
9620. Fact
On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day
9621. Fact
During the holiday season, approximately $220 million worth of Poinsettias are sold
9622. Fact
The gila monster is the only poisonous lizard in the United States.
9624. Fact
The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job
9625. Fact
If all the strawberries produced in California annually were put side by side, they would wrap around the Earth fifteen times
9626. Fact
A newborn expels its own body weight in waste every 60 hours.
9627. Fact
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.
9628. Fact
Rats can tell the difference between two human languages.
9629. Fact
Jamaica Blue Mountain is often regarded as the best coffee in the world.
9630. Fact
Most-visited presidential grave: John F. Kennedy's in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The only other president buried in Arlington: William Howard Taft.
9631. Fact
People sneeze at about 90 miles per hour.
9632. Fact
The silhouette on the MLB logo is Harmon Killebrew.
9633. Fact
The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered fool's gold because it looks very similar to gold.
9634. Fact
Tiger Woods is the only person to hold all four major championships at one time, although it did not happen in the calendar year. He also currently holds the scoring record for all four majors.
9636. Fact
The Cannes Film Festival was conceived in 1938 by two French journalists while they were traveling by train to the Venice Film Festival.
9637. Fact
Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne
9638. Fact
The complete works of Shakespeare can be stored on 5 Megabytes.
9639. Fact
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is feedback.
9640. Fact
¥ Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
9641. Fact
Baseball games between college teams have been played since the Civil War
9643. Fact
898 tornadoes were recorded to have occurred in the United States in the year 2000.
9644. Fact
The world camel population is close to 19 million
9645. Fact
Sea water is approximately 3.5 percent salt.
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