790. Fact

The given name "wendy" first appeared in the book peter pan.

791. Fact

An olympic sport in 1906 was shot-putting using stones.

792. Fact

Before ronald reagan became a movie star, he was a sports commentator.

793. Fact

Leonardo dicaprio's first appearance in front of a camera was in a commercial for milk.

794. Fact

The heart of an embryo starts beating three weeks after conception.

795. Fact

A blue whale's penis is between 15 - 20 feet long.

796. Fact

The most common disease to plague humans is "coryza", better known as "the common cold". It has spread almost everywhere on earth.

797. Fact

The smallest country in the world is the vatican in rome. It's only 0.17 square miles.

798. Fact

The largest cell in the human body is the female egg.

799. Fact

R2-d2, the popular robot from the star wars movies, is called c1-p8 in the italian movie versions.

800. Fact

Paul simon and art garfunkel were classmates.

801. Fact

You can't sneeze in your sleep.

802. Fact

The element californium is named after the american state, california.

803. Fact

Dumdum bullets are named after the city where the ammunition is manufactured, dumdum, india.

804. Fact

A sifonaptorologist studies fleas.

805. Fact

The weight of an adult person's skin is about 6.6 pounds.

806. Fact

Tom jones put so much feeling into a song he recorded for the james bond film thunder ball, that he blacked out in the studio.

807. Fact

The first cervical vertebra on humans is called atlas.

808. Fact

Venus, the second planet in our solar system, rotates in the opposite direction of the other eight planets.

809. Fact

In the bahamas there are different classifications for strong winds. One is "the banana wind" - this means the wind is so strong, bananas on the trees fall to the ground.

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