827. Fact

Kissing is not only nice. It's also good for your teeth! It's because when you kiss, your mouth produces saliva and saliva helps protect against dental plaque.

828. Fact

Our blood circulation is very long. The blood vessels, all together, are between 3,000 and 6,000 miles long.

829. Fact

A komodo dragon can eat one and a half times its own body weight in just a couple of minutes.

830. Fact

Mach 1 is the technical term for the speed of sound - 742 (statute) miles per hour.

831. Fact

The earth circles around the sun at a speed of 18.6 miles per second.

832. Fact

A concorde holds 31,510 gallons of petrol in its tanks.

833. Fact

Bears can be left or right handed.

834. Fact

You share the same birthday with about 9 million other people.

835. Fact

The wings on a banana fly flap back and forth 200 times per second.

836. Fact

120 milligrams of arsenic is enough to kill you.

837. Fact

When pharmacist john pemberton was mixing the solution that later was to become coca-cola, he included in his experiental batches cocaine, coca leaves and cola nuts.

838. Fact

Thelma pickles was john lennon's first girlfriend.

839. Fact

Winston churchill was born in a ladies lavatory.

840. Fact

The chameleon has a tongue longer than its own body.

841. Fact

In 1999; the danish movie festen received a peculiar film award in germany for the worst dubbed movie.

842. Fact

If you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for nine more days until it starves to death.

843. Fact

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

844. Fact

During a flight, the concorde gets 7 to 8-inches longer. The heat from the friction causes the metal to expand.

845. Fact

There are more than 30,000 different kinds of roses.

846. Fact

The german friedrich sertner, when he managed to isolate the active substance from opium in 1806, gave the substance the name "morphine" after the greek god of sleep.

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