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.

4988. Fact

In Chinese, the Kentucky Fried Chicken slogan 'Finger-lickin' good' came out as 'Eat your fingers off.'

4989. Fact

It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world

4990. Fact

Taurine, the main ingredient in Red Bull, is an extract of the stomach lining of cows

4991. Fact

The best selling chocolate syrup in the world is Hershey

4992. Fact

Commercially flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor absorption.

4993. Fact

Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

4994. Fact

If your shoes squeak, it simply means that two layers of leather in the sole are rubbing together. Driving a tack through the sole will often remove the squeak.

4995. Animal Facts

Goliath birdeating spiders can grow to the size of a dinner plate and kill small birds.

4996. Fact

Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.

4997. Fact

The Lone Ranger's real name is John Reid.

4998. Fact

Romans, in the third century, believed that the lemon was an antidote for all poisons

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