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.

6363. Fact

There are 40 official jelly belly flavours

6364. Fact

Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia.

6365. Fact

Until 1896, drivers in Great Britain had to warn of their presence by having a person precede their car on foot, waving a red flag.

6366. Fact

Snails eat with a rasping mouth called a radula, which has thousands of teeth

6367. Animal Facts

Owl's eyes are too large to move in their eye sockets, so they've developed the ability to turn their heads round further than other birds can.

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