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.

6342. Fact

In Vermont it is illegal to paint landscapes in times of war.

6343. Fact

In a normal lifetime an American will eat 200 pounds of peanuts and 10,000 pounds of meat.

6344. Fact

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs

6345. Fact

There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain.

6346. Fact

The most popular brand of raisins is Sunmaid

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