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The following is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language: sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke

4970. Fact

Every minute in the U.S. six people turn 17.

4971. Fact

The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs

4972. Fact

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

4973. Fact

Whale hunting is strictly prohibitted throughout the entire state of Oklahoma.

4974. Fact

If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world

4975. Fact

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents! a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs - Alexander the Great, and Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

4976. Fact

Caterpillar means hairy cat in Old French

4977. Fact

Goats do not eat tin cans, as lampooned in cartoons. They nibble at the cans because they're after the glue on the labels.

4978. Fact

A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air

4979. Fact

A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

4980. Animal Facts

Over 100 million years ago, crocodiles were twice the size they are now – up to 12 metres (40 feet) long – and could eat dinosaurs.

4981. Fact

In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The fist Deputy Postmaster General was American inventor Benjamin Franklin who was later dismissed for sympathizing with the American revolutionary cause

4982. Fact

Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam

4983. Fact

No two spider webs are the same.

4984. Fact

Spiders have transparent blood.

4985. Animal Facts

A head louse can lay 200–300 eggs during its life of around thirty days.The eggs only take five to ten days to hatch and start feeding.

4986. Fact

Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost

4987. Fact

Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him.