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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!

6328. Fact
On average, every person in the United States owns 2.1 radios.

6329. Fact
Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms

6330. Fact
The term the whole 9 yards came from WWII fighter pilots in thePacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibermachine gunammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into thefuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got the whole 9yards.

6331. Fact
Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older

6332. Fact
The oldest documented footwear found was a 8,000 year-old sandal found in a cave located in Missouri, USA

6333. Fact
The dragons and other monsters that graced the bows of the Viking ships were so fierce-looking that a law was passed in Iceland ordering the skipper of any Viking ship to remove the figurehead before entering port.

6334. Fact
Levan, which is located in Utah, got its name from navel which is levan spelt backwards. It was named this because it is in the center of Utah

6335. Fact
The sound of a snore (up to 69 decibels) can be almost as loud as the noise of a pneumatic drill.

6336. Fact
Other than London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used to film more than 140 films in 2002

6337. Fact
When blue whales are first born, they gain as much as 200 pounds a day while they are calves

6338. Animal Facts
Geckos have no eyelids – they lick their eyeballs to clean them!

6339. Fact
Burger King restaurants serve over 400 million ounces of orange juice annually

6340. Animal Facts
Scorpions glow in the dark in ultraviolet light.

6341. Fact
Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda.

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