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

6347. Fact

The board game Monopoly was originally rejected by Parker Brothers, who claimed it had 52 fundamental errors.

6348. Fact

When the body is resting, it takes in about 10 litres of air every minute

6349. Fact

When a man was hanged in Mississippi in 1894 the noose came undone and the prisoner fell to the ground. He was set free and and since his innocence was later established he was granted $5000.

6350. Fact

According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is American.

6351. Animal Facts

Flesh flies eat nothing but old meat and rotting flesh on dead bodies.

6352. Fact

9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive.

6353. Fact

The Great Wall stretches for about 4,500 miles across North China

6354. Fact

Ketchup actually began in Thailand. There it was labelled Kachiap.

6355. Fact

The first President to ride in an automobile was William McKinley. After being shot, he was taken to the hospital in a 1901 Columbia electric ambulance.

6356. Fact

SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry (if you were to view it upside-down it would still be the same word and perfectly readable).

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