5018. Fact

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

5019. Fact

Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was first developed.

5020. Fact

China has trained 700,000 ducks and chickens to attack at the sound of a whistle in order to fight a national plague of locusts.

5021. Fact

In July 1934, Babe Ruth paid the fan who caught his 700th career home run ball $20 to get it back.

5022. Fact

There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world

5023. Fact

During the chariot scene in Ben Hur, a small red car can be seen in the distance.

5024. Fact

The word Thailand means land of the free.

5025. Fact

In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries

5026. Fact

On average, a car driver will swear or blashpheme 32,025 times in their lifetime while driving

5027. Fact

After the Popeye comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States

5028. Fact

Arabic numerals are not really Arabic; they were invented in India.

5029. Fact

Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.

5030. Fact

Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War.

5031. Fact

The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.

5032. Fact

In ohio it is illegal to run out of gas.

5033. Fact

In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles

5034. Fact

George Hancock invented a new game on November 30, 1887. It was played like baseball, except a broomstick was used for a bat and a boxing glove was the ball. Since the game was played indoors, it was originally called indoor. Walter Hakanson later renamed it softball.

5035. Fact

Neither Fruit Flies nor May Flies are flies.

5036. Fact

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

5037. Fact

Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River

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