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

5348. Fact

In Lefors, Texas it is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer at any time while standing.

5349. Fact

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5! Though it goes to 10, 9 is estimated to be the point of total tectonic destruction. 2 is the smallest that can be felt unaided.

5350. Fact

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

5351. Fact

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

5352. Fact

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth

5353. Fact

Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.

5354. Fact

The first Corvette rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line in Flint, MI. in 1953. That early 'Vette sold for $3,250.

5355. Fact

An apple tree is at its prime when its about 50 years old. The United States produces about 100 million barrels of apples a year. That's a lot of old trees.

5356. Animal Facts

The guanay cormorant makes its nest from dried faeces.

5357. Fact

America once issued a 5-cent bill.

5358. Fact

Johnny Appleseed planted apples so that people could use apple cider to make alcohol.

5359. Fact

You can walk from Boston to New York City in fewer than a million steps.

5360. Fact

An etiquette writer of the 1840's advised, Ladies may wipe their lips on the tablecloth, but not blow their noses on it.

5361. Fact

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears. never stop growing

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There is a cemetery town in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1      .. More >>