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).

6357. Fact

The average day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 seconds. We have a leap year every four years to make up for this shortfall

6358. Fact

Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.

6359. Fact

A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.

6360. Fact

There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of seawater.

6361. Fact

The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore

6362. Fact

The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice was First Impression.

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