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

4999. Fact

All swans in England are the property of the queen or king

5000. Fact

U-Haul is the world's largest advertiser in the Yellow Pages.

5001. Fact

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower', because in the time when al original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case stored smaller, 'lower case' letters

5002. Fact

40% of all indigestion remedies sold in the world are bought by Americans.

5003. Fact

A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.

5004. Fact

If you head directly south from the west coast of Florida, you will actually pass South America on the west side of the continent.

5005. Fact

The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

5006. Fact

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents.

5007. Fact

Alaska's annual 1,149 Iditarod race commemorates the 1925 Race for Life when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.

5008. Fact

In Kansas it is illegal to catch bullfrogs in a tomato patch.

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