769. Fact

26 popes have unfortunately been murdered.

770. Fact

For a long time, the tonga islands had a banana shaped stamp.

771. Fact

If you suffer from arachinophobia, you're terrified of spiders.

772. Fact

Geographical locations with the shortest names are "a" in norway, "o" in japan and "y" in france.

773. Fact

If you keep a living goldfish in a completely dark room, it will eventually turn white.

774. Fact

The horsehead, used in the film the godfather, came from a factory that manufactures dog food.

775. Fact

The a-system used to keep control of paper sizes (a4, a5, a3 etc) was invented in germany in 1930 and became an international standard.

776. Fact

There are over 500 phobias and tauraphobia is one of them - a fear of bulls.

777. Fact

Ice cream contains a thickeningsubstance extracted from seaweed.

778. Fact

Since 1989, oscar presenters are not allowed to say "and the winner is..." this insinuates that all of the other nominees are losers. So instead they say "and the oscar goes to..."

779. Fact

Bird's feet are always cold.

780. Fact

The koala got its name from the australian aboriginals. Koala means "no drink" and refers to the fact that koala bears get all the fluid they need eating eucalyptus leaves.

781. Fact

One of the first mobile phones with a battery smaller than a bag was the nmt900 phone curt, from ericsson. It weighed 1.6 pounds and you could talk on it for 12 minutes.

782. Fact

Nicholas cage changed his last name from coppola to cage so that no one would know that he was related to oscar-winning director francis ford coppola, who is his uncle.

783. Fact

Leprosy can affect all people but only one animal - the south and middle american armadillo.

784. Fact

Every year, the moon moves 1.5 inches away from the earth.

785. Fact

Brontophobia means a terrible fear of thunder.

786. Fact

Diamonds are made of carbon and can burn. If heated up to 80o272c (1,600272f), diamonds turn into graphite.

787. Fact

In the famous film casablanca, rick (played by humphrey bogart) never once said, "play it again, sam". He actually said, "you played it for her. You can play it for me. Play it!" the line "play it again, sam" actually comes from the marx brother's film one night in casablanca.

788. Fact

A leech can suck up as much as 2 cubic centimeters (0.12 cubic inches) of blood, but only after fasting for a year.

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