6308. Fact

The most expensive painting ever sold at auction was Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh. On May 15, 1990, Ryoei Saito paid $75 million for it. He followed up that spending spree by paying the second-highest price ever, $71 million for Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre Auguste Renoir, just two days later.

6309. Fact

Reggie Jackson holds the major league record for most strikeouts with 2,597.

6310. Fact

Joseph Gayetty is credited for inventing toilet paper in 1857. Unfortunately, his invention failed and did not catch on until ten years later

6311. Fact

On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day

6312. Fact

Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives

6313. Fact

Easter is the first Sunday after the first Full Moon after March 21.

6314. Fact

Chop Suey' translates to something like 'pieces of meat' and was invented by Chinese railroad workers who didn't know how to cook anything except to 'chop stuff up and fry it'

6315. Fact

English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid.

6316. Fact

The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed

6317. Fact

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards

6318. Fact

It is illegal to mispronounce 'Arkansas'while in the state of Arkansas.

6319. Fact

Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers'ranch.

6320. Fact

The word queue is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.

6321. Fact

The dot over the letter 'i'is called a tittle.

6322. Fact

A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.

6323. Fact

Clarence Crane the inventor of Crane's Peppermint Life Savers sold his rights to the popular candy for less than three thousand dollars.

6324. Fact

More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.

6325. Fact

Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time

6326. Fact

In 1900, Queen Victoria sent her New Year's greetings to the British troops stationed in South Africa during the Boer War in the form of a specially molded chocolate bar.

6327. Animal Facts

The vampire squid has the largest eyes of any animal for its body size. The squid is 28 centimetres long (11 inches) and its eyes are 2.5 centimetres (1 inch across). The equivalent would be a person with eyes the size of table tennis bats!

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