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5328. Fact
The South Pole is covered with 8,850 feet of solid ice.
5330. Fact
Brazil is the largest producers of oranges in the world
5331. Fact
The world's largest burrito weighed 4,217 lbs.
5332. Fact
The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe
5333. Fact
The word laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation.
5334. Fact
Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate
5336. Fact
The deepest hole ever made in the world is in Texas. It is as deep as 20 empire state buildings but only 3 inches wide. (Who made it? A petroleum company)
5337. Fact
A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of potatoes.
5338. Fact
Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations.
5340. Fact
A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing
5341. Fact
Most gemstones contain several elements; except the diamond, it's all carbon.
5342. Fact
China's Beijing Duck Restaurant can seat 9,000 people at one time.
5343. Fact
In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers
5344. Fact
In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today
5345. Animal Facts
Sharks have special organs in their snouts and elsewhere that let them detect the electric fields produced by living animals. They can then home in on the animals to eat them.
5346. Fact
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
5347. Fact
In the movie The Matrix Reloaded a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce
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95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona
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