8496. Fact

Parrots cannot eat chocolate because it is poisonous to their body

8497. Fact

Over 1,600 people in North America have been victims of trunk entrapment (being locked inside of a car trunk)

8498. Fact

Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.

8499. Fact

Putty is a cement compound of fine powdered chalk or oxide of lead mixed with linseed oil.

8500. Fact

Van Camp's Pork and Beans were a staple food for Union soldiers in the Civil War.

8501. Fact

By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours

8502. Animal Facts

A vampire finch in the Galapagos Islands pecks holes in other birds to feed on their blood.

8503. Fact

Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer was actually created as a promotional figure for Montgommery Wards department stores.

8504. Fact

The only painting by Leonardo da Vinci on permanent display in the United States hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. It's a portrait of Ginevra di Benci, the wife of a politician in Florence.

8505. Fact

Before the first French cafe in the late 1700's, coffee was sold by street vendors in Europe, in the Arab fashion. The Arabs were the forerunners of the sidewalk espresso carts of today.

8506. Fact

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

8507. Fact

When the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, received an alarming number of threatening letters, soon after her husband became President at the height of the Depression, the Secret Service insisted that she carry a pistol in her purse

8508. Fact

If you shake a can of mixed nuts, the larger ones will rise to the top.

8509. Fact

The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour

8510. Fact

In the ten years between 1987 and 1997, there was an increase of over 800 million people on the planet.

8511. Fact

Apple seeds are poisonous.

8512. Fact

The prostate gland is a male erogenous zone that may be stimulated through firm pressure on the back of the perineum or through the anus.

8513. Fact

Experiments have shown that, ants are capable of lifting 50 times their own weight and pulling loads 300 times their own weight.

8514. Fact

The two top toys in 1950 were Silly Putty which sold for $1, and Crayola crayons which sold for 50 cents

8515. Fact

Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.

Unit
Unit : chain (ch) (ramsden's) (u.s.)
Formula : 1200*inch
in si : 30.48
si unit : m
in cgs : 3048
cgs unit : cm
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