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(Developed by Western Union to Test telex/twxcommunications)"},{"fact":"The word housekeeping was invented by Shakespeare"},{"fact":"The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sportsgames (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after theMajorLeague All-Star Game."},{"fact":"In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured"},{"fact":"Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections"},{"fact":"All dogs are the descendant of the wolf. These wolves lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago"},{"fact":"It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation"},{"fact":"Parma ham is only Parma ham if it is made in the Parma region of Italy. The British chain supermarket Asda, made and packaged its own \"Parma ham\" and was successfully sued by the real Parma ham people (Parma Ham Trade Association)"},{"fact":"With winds of 50 miles per hour, The Statue of Liberty sways three inches and the torch sways five inches"},{"fact":"A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century."},{"fact":"Police detectives have used snapping turtles to help them locate dead bodies"},{"fact":"In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10"},{"fact":"The national sport of Japan is sumo wrestling"},{"fact":"The early occurrence of a fetus yawning is at eleven weeks after conception"},{"fact":"In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch"},{"fact":"Edward VIII did not officially become the King of England as he abdicated the throne to marry an American divorcee"},{"fact":"The book \"Little Red Riding Hood\" was banned in 1990 by two school districts in California. They did this because in the book there was a picture of a basket that had a bottle of wine in it"},{"fact":"The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag"},{"fact":"Americans consume the most peanut butter in the world"},{"fact":"Celtic warriors sometimes fought their battles naked, their bodies dyed blue from head to toe"},{"fact":"To make butter more attractive in colour, carrot juice was used by people in the Middle Ages"},{"fact":"Early hockey games allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice"},{"fact":"Most fleas do not live past a year old"},{"fact":"It takes seven to ten days to make a jelly belly jellybean"},{"fact":"Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them"},{"fact":"Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable"},{"fact":"The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. 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This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil"},{"fact":"The largest shopping mall in the world is the West Edmonton Mall located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada"},{"fact":"The CN Tower located in Toronto, Ontario Canada took a total construction time of 40 months to complete at an original cost of $63 million"},{"fact":"The 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was able to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time"},{"fact":"The country of Andorra has a zero percent unemployment rate"},{"fact":"In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles"},{"fact":"A woman has approximately 4.5 litres of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 litres"},{"fact":"In India, pickled ginger, minced mutton and a cottage cheese like substance are popular pizza toppings"},{"fact":"Oral-B were the first toothbrushes to go to the moon when they were aboard the Apollo 11 mission"},{"fact":"A maple tree is usually tapped when the tree is at least 45 years old and has a diameter of 12 inches"},{"fact":"In 1998, a law passed in the U.S. state of Virginia allows drivers to keep their road kill, as long as they report it within 12 hours. updated"},{"fact":"A language becomes extinct in this world every two weeks"},{"fact":"An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment"},{"fact":"The decomposition point of Olive Oil is 220 degrees Celsius"},{"fact":"Ten radishes only contain eight calories"},{"fact":"Annually a thousand people are killed by scorpions in Mexico"},{"fact":"Every year, 100 million sharks are killed by people"},{"fact":"Tug of war was an Olympic event from 1900-1920"},{"fact":"Of all the countries, Brazil has the most plant species, with over 56,000"},{"fact":"One female mouse can produce up to 100 babies a year"},{"fact":"Impotence is grounds for divorce in 26 U.S. states"},{"fact":"Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels."},{"fact":"The average lifespan of a human taste bud is ten days"},{"fact":"The monogram \"RR\" for Rolls-Royce has never been altered, except for when Sir Henry Royce passed away in 1933. Then it was changed from red to black."},{"fact":"People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin"},{"fact":"Fido means faithful in Latin"},{"fact":"Pebbles cereal was actually named after the shape of the cereal and not the Pebbles Flintstone character"},{"fact":"A group of kangaroos is called a mob"},{"fact":"Cat's urine glows under a blacklight."},{"fact":"Every three seconds, a new baby is born"},{"fact":"More than 260,000 people have been killed by volcanic activity since 1700 AD."},{"fact":"The only predator that polar bears have are humans"},{"fact":"Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight"},{"fact":"The last land battle of the U.S. Civil War was fought in Texas"},{"fact":"Annually 7 million tons of textiles and clothing is thrown out. 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This story was an analogy of how he drove paganism out of Ireland"},{"fact":"Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth"},{"fact":"The most common seasonings found in American homes are chili powder, cinnamon, and seasoned salts"},{"fact":"People who have eaten beetles say that it tastes like apples"},{"fact":"Montreal was named after a local mountain \"Mont Royal.\""},{"fact":"Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991. 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In Switzerland they use only 77 gallons of water per person daily"},{"fact":"Every person has a unique tongue print"},{"fact":"Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet"},{"fact":"In 1890, there was no sunshine for the whole month of December in Westminster in London."},{"fact":"Charles Darwin spent 39 years studying earthworms"},{"fact":"The Boeing 737 is nicknamed the Fat Albert"},{"fact":"Florida has twice as many lightning injuries and deaths than any other state"},{"fact":"Chocolate can be fatal to dogs. 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This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar"},{"fact":"Montreal is actually located on an island"},{"fact":"There are over 2,000 species of butterflies in the rainforests of South America"},{"fact":"The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat"},{"fact":"Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen"},{"fact":"The earliest known example of an organized market for equities dates from Rome, second century B.C"},{"fact":"There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses"},{"fact":"Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys"},{"fact":"Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale ofvodka."},{"fact":"Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning"},{"fact":"Bananas were discovered by Alexander the Great in 327 B.C. when he conquered India"},{"fact":"Levan, which is located in Utah, got its name from \"navel\" which is levan spelt backwards. It was named this because it is in the center of Utah"},{"fact":"Approximately one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand"},{"fact":"Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836"},{"fact":"Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes."},{"fact":"The first human heart transplant happened on December 3, 1967. Unfortunately the patient only lived for eighteen days, succumbing in the end to pneumonia"},{"fact":"In New York City there are 6,374.6 miles of streets"},{"fact":"The sound made by the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is so loud that it can be heard 40 miles away"},{"fact":"Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect"},{"fact":"In Czechhoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made of human bones"},{"fact":"The largest hotel in the world is the MGM Grand, which has 5,034 rooms and is located in Las Vegas, Nevada"},{"fact":"The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets"},{"fact":"The fleshy bulbs on each side of your nose are called the Alea (AY-lee) singular Ala (AY-luh)"},{"fact":"Male koalas mark their territory by rubbing their chests on a tree. Male koalas have a dark scent gland in the middle of their chest"},{"fact":"An octopus has three hearts"},{"fact":"Roses generally need around 6 hours of sunlight to grow properly."},{"fact":"Buttermilk does not contain any butter, but is a cultured milk product which is usually made from fat free milk"},{"fact":"Pineapples were first called \"anana\", which is Caribbean for \"excellent fruit.\""},{"fact":"Human birth control pills work on gorillas"},{"fact":"The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17"},{"fact":"An adult \"Gold Frog\" measures to be 9.8 millimeters in body length"},{"fact":"Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct"},{"fact":"Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf"},{"fact":"Alexander the Great made his troops eat onions as he believed it would prove their vitality"},{"fact":"Bill Russell was the first black head coach of a major league pro sports team"},{"fact":"In 1945, a seven ounce bathroom cup was the first item Tupperware marketed"},{"fact":"Central air conditioners use 98% more energy than ceiling fans."},{"fact":"The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache"},{"fact":"Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better"},{"fact":"Everyday, U.S. business use enough paper to circle the Earth over 20 times"},{"fact":"The Welwitschia plant can live up to 1,000 years"},{"fact":"The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes"},{"fact":"According to the American Institute of Stress, job stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300 billion dollars per year"},{"fact":"It takes 72 minutes for the restaurant at the top of the CN Tower to make one revolution"},{"fact":"Coffee beans were chewed for more than 400 years before the first cup of coffee was brewed"},{"fact":"All of the Peking ducks in the United States are descendents from three ducks and one drake imported to Long Island, New York in 1873"},{"fact":"The first British ship to use the SOS distress signal was the Titanic"},{"fact":"The Spring peeper (a frog) can survive the winter season with 65% of its body water as ice"},{"fact":"Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert"},{"fact":"The search engine Google got its name from the word \"googol,\" which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it"},{"fact":"The Goliath beetle is about the size of your fist and can weigh as much as 3-4 ounces"},{"fact":"If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb"},{"fact":"Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has"},{"fact":"Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion"},{"fact":"The Chihuahua was named after the Mexican state where they were discovered"},{"fact":"There are no snakes in New Zealand"},{"fact":"The most popular grown bulbs are tulips"},{"fact":"Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid"},{"fact":"The country of Bolivia is named after a fighter Simon Bolivar"},{"fact":"Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite"},{"fact":"The first state to give the right to women to vote was Wyoming"},{"fact":"In 1949 UNICEF produced the first charity Christmas card. The picture shown on the card was painted by a seven year old girl"},{"fact":"Archeologists report that cannabis was most likely the first plant cultivated by humans. Cannabis was used for linen, paper, and garments"},{"fact":"The garfish has green bones"},{"fact":"Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a higher chance of developing osteoporosis"},{"fact":"The banana was officially introduced in 1876 in the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. 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The moon was said to appear blue for almost two years."},{"fact":"The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year"},{"fact":"In China, September 20 is \"Love Your Teeth Day.\""},{"fact":"Actor Richard Gere was considered to play the role of John McClane in the movie Die Hard. Bruce Willis played the part instead"},{"fact":"The record for the world?s worst drivers is a toss-up between two candidates: First, a 75-year-old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses, and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes on October 15, 1966. Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car)"},{"fact":"Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur"},{"fact":"Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals"},{"fact":"Half of a cup of figs will give you just as much calcium as half a cup of milk"},{"fact":"A \"hairbreadth away\" is 1/48 of an inch"},{"fact":"In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet"},{"fact":"Walt Disney was afraid of mice"},{"fact":"Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke"},{"fact":"The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle"},{"fact":"Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have ran a red light"},{"fact":"In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 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He opened his store in Paris with the idea of having pre-made gowns presented on models to his customers"},{"fact":"St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity"},{"fact":"More twins are born in the Western world than in the Eastern world"},{"fact":"Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg"},{"fact":"The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours"},{"fact":"The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a 6 foot-tall human jumping the length of 7 football fields"},{"fact":"The 1988 move \"Big\" which was directed by Penny Marshall was the first movie by a female director to gross over $100 million domestically"},{"fact":"When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object."},{"fact":"In 1972, a gorilla by the name of \"Koko\" was taught ASL (American Sign Language) for the deaf. By the year 2000, the gorilla could understand approximately 2,000 English words"},{"fact":"3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria"},{"fact":"The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing \"melanin\" which gives the hair colour"},{"fact":"Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year"},{"fact":"The word \"vamp\" is used to describe the upper front top of a shoe"},{"fact":"Construction on the White House began in October of 1792"},{"fact":"A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy."},{"fact":"Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards"},{"fact":"The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs"},{"fact":"Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away"},{"fact":"Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris Haney invented Trivial Pursuit. 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He never mentioned being President of the United States"},{"fact":"Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months"},{"fact":"In the Victoria era, red tulips were a declaration of love"},{"fact":"The sport Lacrosse was initially played by Native American Indians. They played the sport to prepare for war"},{"fact":"It takes a sloth up to six days to digest the food it eats"},{"fact":"According to Scandinavian traditions, if a boy and girl eat from the same loaf of bread, they are bound to fall in love"},{"fact":"In 1796, Napoleon was only 26 years old when he took command of the French Army of Italy"},{"fact":"A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it"},{"fact":"The expression \"Tying the Knot\" comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots"},{"fact":"Snake is a delicacy in China"},{"fact":"In 1999, All Nippon Airlines, had one of its jets fully decorated with Pokemon characters from nose to tail on its exterior"},{"fact":"The Dead Sea has been sinking for last several years"},{"fact":"Uranus has 27 moons"},{"fact":"Actress Sally Field was paid $4,000 a week for her role in the TV show The Flying Nun"},{"fact":"More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car."},{"fact":"The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose"},{"fact":"Only 4% of babies are born on their actual due date"},{"fact":"In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number theotherchannel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, butnochannel 1."},{"fact":"A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years"},{"fact":"There are more Subway restaurants in Canada than there are McDonald restaurants"},{"fact":"The CN Tower, in Toronto, is the tallest freestanding structure in the world with a height of about 553 metres"},{"fact":"The term \"the whole 9 yards\" came from W.W.II fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got \"the whole 9 yards.\""},{"fact":"Construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9th, 1173"},{"fact":"President Lyndon Johnson used to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day"},{"fact":"The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma"},{"fact":"The word \"laser\" stands for \"Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation.\""},{"fact":"In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey"},{"fact":"There are 315 species of parrot in the world"},{"fact":"The TV show Doctor Who, when it was popular, had an audience of 110 million people"},{"fact":"The cost to build the Empire State Building was $40,948,900"},{"fact":"A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years"},{"fact":"Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out"},{"fact":"The largest cereal company in the world is Quaker Oats, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA"},{"fact":"The first Olympic games only had one event - a foot race"},{"fact":"Colonel Sanders traveled over 250,000 miles a year visiting various parts of his Kentucky Fried Chicken Empire"},{"fact":"Some desert snails have been known to sleep for three to four years"},{"fact":"Over 80% of the brain is water"},{"fact":"From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size"},{"fact":"Jackrabbits can reach a speed of fifty miles per hour and can leap as far as twenty feet"},{"fact":"There are 40 official jelly belly flavours"},{"fact":"Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation"},{"fact":"In 1992, the Antarctic Ozone hole was larger than the continent of North America."},{"fact":"Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds"},{"fact":"There is a certain type of Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil that inflates its thorax, which makes its head look like a head of a snake when it feels it is in danger or alarmed"},{"fact":"The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened."},{"fact":"The Sanskrit word for \"war\" means \"desire for more cows.\""},{"fact":"In Hong Kong, delivery times are primarily influenced by traffic conditions on elevators. It often takes drivers longer to travel vertically than horizontally, as access to elevators is so congested during \"high peak\" hours. This is due to the volume of people residing in high rises"},{"fact":"The ancient Greeks had a fascination with the planet Mars. They attributed the planet to Ares, their god of war, because of its red colour"},{"fact":"The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko"},{"fact":"In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath"},{"fact":"In twins, there is a great chance that one will be left handed"},{"fact":"In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick."},{"fact":"In the Pacific Islands when people get burns they often use a banana leaf as treatment"},{"fact":"Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War"},{"fact":"An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler after watching her daughter play with baby dolls imagining then in grown up roles"},{"fact":"When the female grasshopper lays eggs, she covers her eggs with a pasty liquid that protects the eggs throughout the winter"},{"fact":"The longest recorded duration of a total solar eclipse was 7.5 minutes."},{"fact":"On average, an American makes three pounds of garbage in a day"},{"fact":"Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach"},{"fact":"Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older."},{"fact":"The most common name in the world is Mohammed"},{"fact":"Apple seeds are poisonous as they contain a cyanide compound"},{"fact":"The word breakfast was coined due to the fact that after sleeping for hours, we are \"breaking our fast.\""},{"fact":"The cardigan was originally made to be a military jacket made of knitted wool"},{"fact":"The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines"},{"fact":"The deepest cave in the world is the \"Lamprechtsofen-Vogelshacht\" cave which can be found in Salzburg, Austria. The cave is 5,354 feet deep"},{"fact":"The capital of Vermont, Montpelier is the only state capital in the United States that does not have a McDonalds"},{"fact":"The longest engagement lasted 67 years, and the couple ended up marrying when they were 82 years old"},{"fact":"Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears. never stop growing"},{"fact":"Milk and cheese can aid in the reduction of tooth decay"},{"fact":"On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it"},{"fact":"Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do"},{"fact":"The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing"},{"fact":"Research has indicated that indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution"},{"fact":"Eating a banana at night can help in falling asleep"},{"fact":"The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota."},{"fact":"The first television newscaster was Kolin Hager, who used to broadcast farm and weather reports in 1928"},{"fact":"Pixie, a Siberian Husky, gave birth to 7 puppies, one of which was bright green"},{"fact":"Back in 1953, it took 27 hours to make one Marshmallow Peep. Now it takes only six minutes"},{"fact":"On average, an ear of a corn has 16 rows and approximately 800 kernels"},{"fact":"The green ring that is formed around the yolk of eggs that have been cooked too long is formed by the chemical reaction from the iron in the yolk and the sulphur in the white part of the egg"},{"fact":"The silk that is produced by spiders is stronger than steel"},{"fact":"The first president to have a picture taken was John Quincy Adams"},{"fact":"Some brands of toothpaste contain glycerin or glycerol, which is also an ingredient in antifreeze"},{"fact":"1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible"},{"fact":"It was during World War II that clothes with elastic waists were introduced. This is because the metal used in zippers was badly needed for the war"},{"fact":"In 1902, the game table tennis was brought to the U.S. from Europe by Parker Brothers"},{"fact":"Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes themlooks like it's kissing the conveyor belt."},{"fact":"The fat from sheep, which is called tallow can be used to make soap and candles"},{"fact":"Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body"},{"fact":"Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns"},{"fact":"When playing competitive darts the player must be 7 feet 9 1/4 inches back from the dartboard. Also the board must be 5 feet 8 inches above the floor"},{"fact":"In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak"},{"fact":"Earthworms have 5 hearts"},{"fact":"If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this plant would get about 20 kilograms of gold each."},{"fact":"To make an espresso 42 coffee beans are needed"},{"fact":"The oil that is found in poison ivy is called \"urushiol.\""},{"fact":"Of all the days of the week, the most popular day for people to eat ice cream is Sunday"},{"fact":"The first museum in Moscow that was set up in 1791 was the Natural History Laboratory at Moscow University. This later was changed to the Zoological Museum"},{"fact":"A surfer once sued another surfer for \"stealing his wave.\" The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on \"pain and suffering\" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride \"his\" wave"},{"fact":"Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts"},{"fact":"The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound"},{"fact":"Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, \"Gadsby,\" without any word containing the letter \"e.\""},{"fact":"The projection light used for IMAX theaters can be seen from space."},{"fact":"The human liver performs over 500 functions"},{"fact":"Ballroom dancing is a course at Brigham Young University in Utah"},{"fact":"The word \"maverick\" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan, refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick"},{"fact":"Finnish folklore states that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead"},{"fact":"More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States"},{"fact":"In the 18th century, potatoes were given out as a dessert. They were served in a napkin, salted and hot"},{"fact":"The only poisonous birds in the world are the three species of Pitohui. The Hooded Pitohui from Papua New Guinea is the most deadliest out of the three"},{"fact":"Pretzels were originally invented for Christian Lent. The twists of the pretzels are to resemble arms crossed in prayer"},{"fact":"The American Airlines Center in Dallas has more toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the country"},{"fact":"After 8 months, babies are more likely to get a diaper rash"},{"fact":"The first modern toothbrush was invented in China. Its bristles came from hogs hair or the mane of a horse that were then put into ivory handles"},{"fact":"The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly"},{"fact":"66% of wedding cards are hand delivered by people"},{"fact":"Heavier lemons produce more, and tastier, juice"},{"fact":"The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap"},{"fact":"The same amount of calories are burned by doing 6 sessions that are 5 minutes each of an activity and doing 1 session of that activity for 30 minutes"},{"fact":"General William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army"},{"fact":"Iguanas can stay under water for up to thirty minutes"},{"fact":"The fastest flying butterfly is the Monarch, which has been clocked with a speed as high as 17 miles per hour"},{"fact":"Egyptian pyramid builders used to eat a lot of garlic because they thought it would increase their strength"},{"fact":"The average office document gets copied 19 times"},{"fact":"In just the first 56 days of life, the larva of the polyphemus moth eats about 86,000 times its birthweight"},{"fact":"Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced"},{"fact":"American actor Jack Nicholson, and American singer Bobby Darrin were raised believing their grandmothers were their mothers and their mothers were their older sisters"},{"fact":"The first Ford cars had Dodge engines"},{"fact":"The average height of an NBA basketball player is 6 feet 7 inches"},{"fact":"One in five Americans move homes every year"},{"fact":"The chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1933"},{"fact":"The capital of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou"},{"fact":"A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds"},{"fact":"The Liberty Bell was the first mechanical slot machine, which was invented by Charles Fey, a car mechanic in 1895."},{"fact":"A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax"},{"fact":"The silkworm moth has lost the ability to fly ever since it has been domesticated"},{"fact":"The first cheerleaders in the U.S. were men"},{"fact":"The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the \"General Purpose\" vehicle, G.P"},{"fact":"The odds of having quadruplets are 1 in 729,000"},{"fact":"In 1965, the price for an issue of TV Guide was 15 cents"},{"fact":"In 1565 In St. Augustine, Florida the first orange trees were planted"},{"fact":"Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints"},{"fact":"In the United States, six tubs of Cool Whip, a brand of whipping cream, are sold every second"},{"fact":"The most popular chocolate bar in the United Kingdom for the last 15 years has been Kit Kat"},{"fact":"White-Out was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, who is the mother of Michael Nesmith from the \"The Monkees.\""},{"fact":"There are over 2,000 different types of cheese in the world"},{"fact":"The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world"},{"fact":"Owls swallow their prey whole because they have no teeth. After approximately 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet"},{"fact":"Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize"},{"fact":"Seventy-one percent of households report they have at least one snorer. Forty-five percent of those surveyed admit they snore, 35% said their partner snores, 12% said their child snores and 9% reported their pet snores"},{"fact":"The original meaning of the word grocer was referring to a person who traded food in wholesale. These people would usually sell in large quantities, or by the \"gross.\""},{"fact":"Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas"},{"fact":"Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie \"Silence of the Lambs.\" She turned down the role because she found it too scary"},{"fact":"The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it"},{"fact":"Due to the deforestation of the forests in North China, over one million tons of sands blows into Beijing from the Gobi desert. It sometimes causes the sky to turn yellow."},{"fact":"Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings"},{"fact":"Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns"},{"fact":"The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats."},{"fact":"In 1970, Chip maker Intel purchased a pear orchard to build their corporate headquarters on"},{"fact":"The mating call of a male toadfish, who are underwater, is so loud that it can be heard by humans above water"},{"fact":"The most popular jelly belly jellybean flavour is buttered popcorn"},{"fact":"The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972"},{"fact":"Slaves under the last emperors of China wore pigtails so they could be picked out quickly"},{"fact":"A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out"},{"fact":"Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak"},{"fact":"An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter"},{"fact":"A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet"},{"fact":"Telephonophobia is the fear of telephones"},{"fact":"The word alligator comes from the Spanish word El Lagarto, which means \"The Lizard.\""},{"fact":"While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called \"Traff-O-Data.\" It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers."},{"fact":"The citric acid found in lemon juice is said to be able to dissolve a pearl"},{"fact":"Robert Southey wrote the story \"Goldilocks and the Three Bears\" in 1834"},{"fact":"The tallest woman in the world is American Sandy Allen who is 7 feet 7 inches"},{"fact":"American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class"},{"fact":"Astronauts get taller when they are in space"},{"fact":"Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood"},{"fact":"Dentyne gum was invented in 1899 by a druggist from New York named Franklin V. Canning"},{"fact":"It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach"},{"fact":"When former Texas Governor James Hogg was on his deathbed he made a special request that a pecan tree be planted at the head of his grave instead of a tombstone. The governor passed away on March 2, 1906, which is Texas Independence Day. The pecan tree is now the state tree of Texas"},{"fact":"In a year, there are 60,000 trampoline injuries that occur in the U.S"},{"fact":"There is an organization called SCROOGE in Charlottesville, Virginia that stands for Society to Curtail Ridiculous, Outrageous, and Ostentatious Gift Exchanges. This was formed to keep gift giving affordable and simple"},{"fact":"The first World Series baseball playoffs occurred in 1903"},{"fact":"Archipelago is the word to describe a large group of islands that are located close together"},{"fact":"The life expectancy of a garbage disposal is about 5 to 10 years"},{"fact":"In the original movie \"101 Dalmatians,\" there are exactly 6,469,952 spots on all 101 Dalmatians as they are shown in 113,760 frames of the film combined"},{"fact":"The average North American car contains 300 pounds of plastics"},{"fact":"A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist"},{"fact":"You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog"},{"fact":"The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats"},{"fact":"The music for \"The Star Spangled Banner\" comes from a British drinking song named \"Anacreon.\""},{"fact":"27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is \"a meaningless existential hell.\" (big surprise, eh?)"},{"fact":"Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue"},{"fact":"Less than 1% of the women in the world will ever be able to wear a diamond that is the size of a carat or more"},{"fact":"Ketchup originated in China as a pickled fish sauce called ke-tsiap"},{"fact":"An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain."},{"fact":"In Britain, The Red Lion is the most common name for a pub"},{"fact":"In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus"},{"fact":"The majority of burglaries occur during the daytime when people are not home"},{"fact":"Traditionally, wild cabbage was used as an aphrodisiac"},{"fact":"Tiger Woods was introduced to golf at nine months of age by his father"},{"fact":"A person will burn 7 percent more calories if they walk on hard dirt compared to pavement"},{"fact":"It would take 29 million years for a car travelling 100 miles per hour to reach the nearest star"},{"fact":"Blue Jays can imitate the calls of hawks"},{"fact":"There are over three trillion craters on the moon, with some being having a diameter over three feet"},{"fact":"In India, a 9-year-old girl was \"married\" to a stray dog, which tribal custom requires in order to protect a child whose first tooth appears on the upper gum"},{"fact":"There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of two hundred people"},{"fact":"In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year"},{"fact":"The most expensive spice in the world is saffron"},{"fact":"In one night, an adult hippopotamus eats approximately 150 pounds of grass"},{"fact":"The U.S. paid Russia $7.2 million for Alaska in 1867"},{"fact":"Cows can detect odors up to five miles away"},{"fact":"There are about 125 million multiples (twins, triplets, etc.) worldwide"},{"fact":"Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first \"flushable\" toilet"},{"fact":"Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century. During that time it was provided in the form of a drink and since drinking wine during lent was a sin, so was drinking chocolate"},{"fact":"Approximately 40% of the states in the U.S. have severe, or extreme pollution problems"},{"fact":"Wendel Clark holds the record for the longest span between NHL All-Star appearances, with 13 years (1986-1999)"},{"fact":"Ancient Egyptians believed that onions would keep evil spirits away"},{"fact":"Dill seeds are so small that approximately 10,000 dill seeds would be required to make an ounce"},{"fact":"To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed"},{"fact":"If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures"},{"fact":"Women smile more than men do"},{"fact":"A ripe cranberry will bounce. Another name for a cranberry is bounceberry"},{"fact":"Termites work 24 hours per day -- they do not sleep"},{"fact":"The Romans used to clean themselves with olive oil since they did not have any soap. They would pour the oil on their bodies, and then use a strigil, which is type of blade, to scrape off any dirt along with the oil"},{"fact":"The act of stretching and yawning is referred to as pandiculation"},{"fact":"In the 1960 movie \"Psycho\" by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used to show the blood in the shower scene"},{"fact":"Carolyn Shoemaker, famous astronomer, has discovered 32 comets and approximately 300 asteroids"},{"fact":"The longest fangs of a snake are found on the Gaboon Viper (Bitis gabonica), and can reach over 2 inches in length"},{"fact":"Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced"},{"fact":"The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts"},{"fact":"Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year"},{"fact":"Amish people do not believe in the use of aerosal air fresheners"},{"fact":"Coca-cola used to use the slogan \"Good to the last drop,\" in 1908. This slogan was later used by Maxwell House"},{"fact":"The blind cavefish is born with eyes, but they fall off as the fish grows"},{"fact":"In ancient Egypt, Priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies including their eyebrows and eyelashes"},{"fact":"The Indian election in 1984 was the largest election of any country. Over 379,000,000 voters were eligible to vote at over 480,000 polling stations"},{"fact":"A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet"},{"fact":"There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists"},{"fact":"The name for Oz in \"The Wizard of Oz\" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence \"Oz.\""},{"fact":"The town of Churchill, Manitoba, located in Canada, is known as the \"Polar Bear Capital of the World\""},{"fact":"Amtrak is the combination of the words \"American\" and \"Track\""},{"fact":"On average, an American relocates 11 times in their life"},{"fact":"Fires onland generally move faster uphill than downhill"},{"fact":"The cartoon character Popeye was actually based on a real person named Frank \"Rocky\" Fiegel who was a tough guy who was quite similar to Popeye physically"},{"fact":"Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee"},{"fact":"Some arthritis medications contain gold salts, which is used as an anti-inflammatory"},{"fact":"Lemon juice can aid in reducing the swelling caused by insect bites"},{"fact":"LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is found in ergot, a type of fungus"},{"fact":"DC-10, the name of an airplane stands for \"Douglas Commercial.\""},{"fact":"In approximately 18 months, the papaya tree can grow to be 20 feet tall"},{"fact":"Parrots cannot eat chocolate because it is poisonous to their body"},{"fact":"Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world"},{"fact":"Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa"},{"fact":"The official state tree of Illinois is The White Oak"},{"fact":"It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year'ssupply of footballs."},{"fact":"In 1971, the postal code was introduced in Ottawa, Ontario"},{"fact":"The tridacna clam can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds"},{"fact":"The state that has the most diners in the world is New Jersey, which is referred to as the \"Diner Capital of the World.\""},{"fact":"Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V"},{"fact":"The first recipe for a lasagna type dish was found to be from a British cookbook in the 14th century. Therefore, Italians were not the first ones to come up with the popular dish as believed"},{"fact":"Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older"},{"fact":"If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing"},{"fact":"Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined"},{"fact":"According to legend, tea originated in China when tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water"},{"fact":"When you sneeze, all your bodily functions momentarily stop, including your heart"},{"fact":"Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand"},{"fact":"Urine from men?s public urinals was sold as a commodity in Ancient Rome. It was used as a dye and for making clothes hard"},{"fact":"All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5.00 bill"},{"fact":"1 out of 350,000 Americans get electrocuted in their life"},{"fact":"New Mexico is known as the \"Land of Enchantment.\""},{"fact":"In 1890, Scott Paper produced the first toilet paper to be available on a roll"},{"fact":"An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 - 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period"},{"fact":"Some of the other names that were thought of for the dwarfs in the Disney movie \"Snow White\" were Awful, Dirty, Shifty, Hotsy, and Jumpy"},{"fact":"In the U.S., over 35 million people have used some sort of illegal drug in the last year"},{"fact":"96% of candles that are purchased are by women"},{"fact":"The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82"},{"fact":"A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day"},{"fact":"The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job"},{"fact":"Annually 17 tons of gold is used to make wedding rings in the United States"},{"fact":"Sex acts like a natural antihistamine, in can clear up a stuffy nose"},{"fact":"Women on average live seven years longer than men do"},{"fact":"A British term for slot machine is \"fruit machine\" or \"one-armed bandit.\""},{"fact":"Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin"},{"fact":"Even though the rose does not bear any fruit, the rose hips have more Vitamin C than most vegetables and fruits"},{"fact":"In 1946 Danon Yogurt were the first to add fruit to commercially produced yogurt in U.S"},{"fact":"The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985."},{"fact":"American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class"},{"fact":"The first flavour of a cheese ball was called \"Cheddy Blue.\""},{"fact":"Over 500 million gallons of Kool-Aid drink are consumed each year"},{"fact":"The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for five hours"},{"fact":"Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc"},{"fact":"Missouri has been to most NCAA tournaments than any other college without reaching the final four"},{"fact":"The hump of a camel can weigh up to 35 kilograms"},{"fact":"Lake Malawi has the largest number of fish species in the world"},{"fact":"The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands"},{"fact":"The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City"},{"fact":"The word \"sophomore\" means \"sophisticated moron.\""},{"fact":"Jim Bristoe, an American, invented a 30-foot-long, 2-ton pumpkin cannon that can fire pumpkins up to five miles."},{"fact":"There are about 61,300 pizza restaurants in the United States of America"},{"fact":"To tell if a egg is fully cooked or raw, just spin it. If the egg wobbles then it is still raw, and if it easily spins it is fully cooked"},{"fact":"Used in art the word \"sfumato\" refers to the subtle blending of an outline by gradually blending one tone into another"},{"fact":"There is a species of bird, Antpitta avis canis Ridgley, that barks like a dog"},{"fact":"The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people"},{"fact":"Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport"},{"fact":"The Nobel prize was first awarded in 1901"},{"fact":"The reason why milk is white is because it contains a protein called Casein, which is white. Milk also contains fat, which is also white"},{"fact":"After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996"},{"fact":"When telephone companies first began hiring telephone operators, they chose teenage boys for the job. They switched to women because the teenage boys were wrestling instead of working and pulling pranks on callers"},{"fact":"In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood"},{"fact":"The Sears Tower in Chicago contains enough steel to build 50,000 automobiles"},{"fact":"The first words that Thomas A. Edison spoke into the phonograph were, \"Mary had a little lamb.\""},{"fact":"There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon"},{"fact":"On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year."},{"fact":"In the 20th century, over three million people have died from earthquakes"},{"fact":"It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open"},{"fact":"People still cut the cheese shortly after death"},{"fact":"In ancient Egypt, the only person who was allowed to wear cotton was the High Priest"},{"fact":"Blueberries have more antioxidents than any other fruit or vegetables"},{"fact":"The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum which is located in Wisconsin has the biggest collection of prepared mustards. They have approximately 4,000 different jars and tubes from all over the world"},{"fact":"Bananas trees are not really trees. They are considered to be giant herb plants"},{"fact":"Sponge Candy was invented in Buffalo, NY"},{"fact":"When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia"},{"fact":"Pearls are rarely found in North American oysters"},{"fact":"The average cocoon contains about 300-400 metres of silk"},{"fact":"Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world"},{"fact":"Boxing champion Gene Tunney taught Shakespeare at Yale University"},{"fact":"The most popular pickle is the Dill pickle"},{"fact":"Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year"},{"fact":"Every year approximately 3,000 people choke to death"},{"fact":"Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam"},{"fact":"The fastest running bird is the Ostrich, which has been clocked at 97.5 kilometres per hour"},{"fact":"When the divorce rate goes up in the United States, toy makers report that the sale of toys also rise"},{"fact":"Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays"},{"fact":"The Pacific island of Tonga once issued a stamp that was banana shaped"},{"fact":"A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night"},{"fact":"The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher"},{"fact":"The only commercial aircraft that is able to break the sound barrier is the Concorde."},{"fact":"U.S. Postal Service processes 38 million address changes each year"},{"fact":"In 1984, Ronald Reagan declared the month of July to be \"National Ice Cream Month.\""},{"fact":"The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long"},{"fact":"In 1905, the first pizzeria in the U.S. opened in New York City"},{"fact":"In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood"},{"fact":"For the blockbuster movie \"The Terminator,\" O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers did not choose him as they thought he would not be taken seriously"},{"fact":"The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers"},{"fact":"The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee"},{"fact":"There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones"},{"fact":"Walt Disney had a fear of mice"},{"fact":"Cleopatra married two of her brothers"},{"fact":"In an average lifetime, people spend four years traveling in cars and six months waiting for red light to turn green"},{"fact":"At one time, pumpkins were recommended for removing freckles"},{"fact":"In just one drop of liquid, 50 million bacteria can be present"},{"fact":"The Montreal Canadians hockey team has won the most Stanley Cups with 24"},{"fact":"Nylon is a man-made fibre that is made from coal and petroleum"},{"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"},{"fact":"Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got the idea after noticing burrs were sticking to his pants after his regular walks through the woods, invented Velcro."},{"fact":"Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing. Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar and pollen is located"},{"fact":"The steepest street in the world is Baldwin Street located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It has an incline of 38%"},{"fact":"One billion pounds of pasta would need approximately 2,021,452,000 gallons of water to cook it. This is equivalent to 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools"},{"fact":"Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously"},{"fact":"The average Super Bowl party has 18 people"},{"fact":"An ant can detect a movement through 5 centimeters of earth"},{"fact":"One out of 200 women is colorblind"},{"fact":"On average, the rainfall across the Amazon is 7 feet annually."},{"fact":"Passion fruits have a tranquilizing effect on the body"},{"fact":"It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky"},{"fact":"A snail can sleep for 3 years"},{"fact":"\"Dreamt\" is the only English word that ends in the letters \"mt\""},{"fact":"There is a large brass statue of Winnie-the-Pooh in Lima, Peru"},{"fact":"In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet"},{"fact":"Centuries ago in India, a person could get their nose chopped off for breaking the law"},{"fact":"The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello"},{"fact":"The total number of steps in the Eiffel Tower are 1665"},{"fact":"The amount of blood a female mosquito drinks per serving is five millionths of a liter"},{"fact":"An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year"},{"fact":"The name for Ivory Soap was inspired by a verse from the Bible. Harley Proctor got though of the name when the minister read from Psalms 45:8, \"All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad.\""},{"fact":"A survey done by Clairol 10 years ago came up with 46% of men stating that it was okay to color their hair. Now 66% of men admit to coloring their hair"},{"fact":"The name of the squiggly line \"~\" is called a tilde"},{"fact":"In 1747, the first American mention of the Christmas tree occurred. However, it was a not a tree but instead a pyramid made out of wood and decorated with apples and evergreen boughs"},{"fact":"There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada"},{"fact":"The study of ants is called Myrmecology"},{"fact":"In the United States, you are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a shark attack"},{"fact":"Coca-Cola was the first soft drink to be consumed in outer space"},{"fact":"Frozen food can be just as nutritious as fresh food"},{"fact":"Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States"},{"fact":"The average amount of time spent kissing for a person in a lifetime is 20,160 minutes"},{"fact":"The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries"},{"fact":"The most expensive shoes in the world are ruby slippers located in Harrods in London, which cost $1.6 million, has a full time security guard. The shoes are made from platinum thread and has 642 rubies in them. It took over 700 hours to produce the shoe"},{"fact":"Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star"},{"fact":"The city of Denver was originally chosen to host the 1976 Winter Olympics, but had to withdraw because Colorado voters rejected to finance it"},{"fact":"The longest bout of sneezing recorded was by Donna Griffith. It began in January 13 1981 and continued until September 16 1983 and lasted for 978 days"},{"fact":"The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India, was actually built for use as a tomb by Mogul ruler Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum"},{"fact":"In 1943, the July issue of \"Transportation Magazine\" had an article entitled \"1943 Guide to Hiring Women.\""},{"fact":"Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray"},{"fact":"A dime has 118 ridges around the edge"},{"fact":"Scientists with high-speed cameras have discovered that rain drops are not tear shaped but rather look like hamburger buns."},{"fact":"Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance"},{"fact":"Mardi Gras means \"Fat Tuesday.\" This is the festival that New Orleans, Louisiana is famous for having every year"},{"fact":"There was once a fish caught in Delaware Bay with a watch still ticking inside"},{"fact":"In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum"},{"fact":"During the female orgasm, endorphines are released, which are powerful painkillers. So headaches are in fact a bad excuse not to have sex"},{"fact":"Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes"},{"fact":"The nut \"filbert\" got its name from St. Philbert which is celebrated on August 22nd, which is also when the nut matures"},{"fact":"Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head"},{"fact":"Some species of dolphin sleep with one eye open"},{"fact":"The chewing gum Juicy Fruit has 10 calories. This is approximately the same as a bite of whole wheat bread"},{"fact":"In ancient Egypt, doctors used jolts from the electric catfish to reduce the pain of arthritis"},{"fact":"In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder"},{"fact":"Elvis Presley used to be a truck driver before he started singing"},{"fact":"The average cow produces about 2,305 gallons of milk each year"},{"fact":"Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois and saved over 77 lives"},{"fact":"In 2000, there were 1,579,566 drug arrests in the United States. Of those, close to half were for marijuana"},{"fact":"Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different"},{"fact":"Popeye is 34 years old, weighs 158 lbs, and is 5 feet 6 inches tall"},{"fact":"Researchers have shot footage of Orcas (killer whales) attacking and killing great white sharks"},{"fact":"The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order"},{"fact":"One bushel of wheat can make enough sandwiches that you could eat three sandwiches a day for over six months"},{"fact":"In 1992, approximately 750 deaths occurred in the United States due to workplace violence"},{"fact":"In the movie \"Babe\", the piglet was played by over 30 different piglets they outgrew the part so quickly during the production of the film"},{"fact":"Research indicates that people prefer the colour blue for their casual clothing"},{"fact":"The leading cause of deaths for children between the ages of 1 and 4 are motor vehicle crashes"},{"fact":"The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie \"Psycho.\""},{"fact":"The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons"},{"fact":"One acre of wheat can produce enough bread to feed a family of four people for about ten years"},{"fact":"Queen Victoria used marijuana, to help relieve menstrual cramp pain"},{"fact":"On a ship a toilet is called a head"},{"fact":"About 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue"},{"fact":"Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water"},{"fact":"The thing that hangs from the top of the beak of a turkey is called the snood"},{"fact":"Ticks can be as small as a grain of rice and grow to be as big as a marble"},{"fact":"An American chews an average of 300 sticks of gum in a year"},{"fact":"Most cows give more milk when they listen to music"},{"fact":"Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet"},{"fact":"Heavier lemons contain more and tastier juice"},{"fact":"Since 1950, over 230 million eggs of Silly Putty have been sold"},{"fact":"Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better"},{"fact":"Frank Wathernam was the last prisoner to leave Alcatraz prison on March 21, 1963"},{"fact":"A blink lasts approximately 0.3 seconds"},{"fact":"In 1903 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wipers"},{"fact":"Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time"},{"fact":"A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day"},{"fact":"The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon"},{"fact":"Spartacus led the revolt of the Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 B.C"},{"fact":"The Mexican version of the Tooth Fairy is known as the Tooth Mouse, which takes the tooth and leaves treasures in its place"},{"fact":"In a day the blue whale calf drinks approximately 130 gallons of milk"},{"fact":"Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do"},{"fact":"All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st"},{"fact":"A person would have to drink more than 12 cups of hot cocoa to equal the amount of caffeine found in one cup of coffee"},{"fact":"The oldest documented footwear found was a 8,000 year-old sandal found in a cave located in Missouri, USA"},{"fact":"Broccoli was first introduced into France during the royal marriage of Catherine de Medici to Henry II of France"},{"fact":"By federal law, for a noodle to actually be a noodle it must have 5.5 percent egg solids in it, otherwise it cannot be called a noodle"},{"fact":"The first female guest host of Saturday Night Live was actress Candace Bergen"},{"fact":"The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year"},{"fact":"People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone"},{"fact":"Turkeys can have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys dropped dead because of heart attacks"},{"fact":"The act of sneezing is referred to as sternutation"},{"fact":"The average medium size piano has about 230 strings"},{"fact":"A study revealed that men that were born with a low birth weight were less likely to get married"},{"fact":"It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times"},{"fact":"On average, you would need 12.5 gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream"},{"fact":"A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight"},{"fact":"There are places in Saskatchewan called Elbow, Eyebrow, and Drinkwater"},{"fact":"A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly"},{"fact":"The beeswax that is produced by Honey bees comes from eight paired glands that are located on the underside of their stomach"},{"fact":"People in low-income homes spend 50% more time playing video games than people in high-income homes"},{"fact":"Lighthouse keepers were nicknamed \"wickies\" because they tended the lamps wick"},{"fact":"Taco Bell serves over 35 million consumers each week in the USA"},{"fact":"During the Roman times, people used urine, called lotium in Latin, as a hair product"},{"fact":"There are approximately 90 people that have been frozen after their death."},{"fact":"The smallest will ever written was 3.8 cm in diameter. It had 40 words written on it and was signed by two witnesses"},{"fact":"The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters"},{"fact":"In 1942 the Jello company introduced Cola flavored jello, which only lasted a year"},{"fact":"Males account for 60% of toy injuries that occur in the U.S"},{"fact":"The company \"Sony\" was originally called \"Totsuken.\" They felt the name \"Sony\" would be easier to pronounce. The name was invented by a cross between the name \"sonus\" and \"sonny.\" The name sound and sonic are derived. Sonny was used to represent a young man or boy, which would show a energetic young company"},{"fact":"The Red Cross is called the Red Crescent in Arab countries"},{"fact":"The Olympics were originally held for the Greek god Zeus"},{"fact":"The oldest inhabited house in Scotland is the Traquair Castle. The castle has had 27 kings as visitors"},{"fact":"Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999"},{"fact":"Wham-O manufactured twenty-thousand hula-hoops a day at the peak of hula-hoop popularity in 1958"},{"fact":"JELL-O was declared The \"Official State Snack\" of Utah in January 2001"},{"fact":"Elvis Presley was obsessed with brushing his teeth"},{"fact":"When the Statue of Liberty was moved from France to the United States, 214 crates were used to transport it. The Statue was also reduced to 350 pieces"},{"fact":"There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second."},{"fact":"In-vitro babies are born in Australia more than any other country in the world"},{"fact":"Uranus? winter and summer seasons last the equivalent of 21 Earth years"},{"fact":"More people die from eating sharks then from being eaten by them. This is due to a poison in shark meat"},{"fact":"The murder rate in the United States is about four times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally"},{"fact":"The rarest chocolate bar in the world is the Porcelana bar. There are only 20,000 of these bars produced a year, and they sell for $90 per pound"},{"fact":"The reason why locusts swarm are because when they are in groups, a \"hot-spot\" behind their hind legs is stimulated, which in turn causes their destructive nature. A large swarm of locusts can eat eighty thousand tons of corn in a day"},{"fact":"There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands"},{"fact":"Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs"},{"fact":"A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless"},{"fact":"The largest diamond found in the United States was a 40.23 carat white diamond. It was found in 1924 and nicknamed the \"Uncle Sam.\""},{"fact":"Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus."},{"fact":"Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks"},{"fact":"The average number of people that go to a party for the Super Bowl is 17"},{"fact":"The amount of Kit Kat chocolate bars that are made at the York factory every 15 minutes are enough to outstack the Eiffel Tower"},{"fact":"The skin of a shark is made up of \"tiny teeth\" which are called dermal denticles"},{"fact":"The strongest gust of wind was recorded at the Mount Washington Observatory on April 12th, 1934, and measured 231 miles per hour."},{"fact":"The company Chanel claims that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a bottle of Chanel No 5 is sold"},{"fact":"In their lifetime, house cats spend approximately 10,950 hours purring"},{"fact":"The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside"},{"fact":"It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat"},{"fact":"From 1526 to 1707, the first six Mogul emperors of India ruled in unbroken succession from father to son"},{"fact":"A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar"},{"fact":"Bats emit ultrasonic sounds to communicate with each other"},{"fact":"Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food"},{"fact":"Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons"},{"fact":"Three consecutive strikes in bowling is called a turkey"},{"fact":"In a year, about 90 million jars of Skippy Peanut Butter are sold. This works out to three jars sold every second"},{"fact":"In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times"},{"fact":"The Pentagon has 284 restrooms"},{"fact":"From 1967-1976, the town of Tororo located in Uganda had thunder 251 out of the 365 days in a year for those years."},{"fact":"Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year"},{"fact":"Another name for licorice is \"Sweet Wood\" or \"Spanish Juice.\""},{"fact":"The reason the Animal Crackers box is designed with a string handle is because when the popular circus theme was introduced in 1902 they thought it would also be a good idea to package them with a string as a Christmas novelty so they could be hung from Christmas trees"},{"fact":"Sheep can detect other sheep faces like humans do. They can remember up to 50 sheep faces"},{"fact":"The loudest insect in the world is the male cicadas, which are like crickets. When they rub their abdomens, the sound made can be heard from 1300 feet"},{"fact":"Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S"},{"fact":"In the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather correctly 28% of the time. The rushing back and forth from burrows is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking"},{"fact":"Pretzel snacks have been around for over 1300 years. A European monk invented the snack using used leftover bread dough"},{"fact":"Sharks are capable of surviving on average six weeks without eating. The record observed in an aquarium is fifteen months by a species of shark known as the \"swell shark.\""},{"fact":"The destruction of the Berlin Wall began when private citizens began to demolish entire sections of the Wall without interference from government officials on November 9, 1989"},{"fact":"Most American women have their first baby when they are 24.3 years old"},{"fact":"Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin"},{"fact":"A group of larks is called an exaltation"},{"fact":"The Kool Aid Man used to be known as \"Pitcher Man\" when he was first introduced in 1975"},{"fact":"Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap"},{"fact":"Men sweat more than women. This is because women can better regulate the amount of water they lose"},{"fact":"Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked"},{"fact":"The triangular shape that Toblerone chocolates are packaged in, is protected by law"},{"fact":"In 1945, the first \"floating ice cream parlor\" was built for sailors in the western Pacific. This \"floating ice cream parlour\" could produce ten gallons of ice cream every seven seconds"},{"fact":"The formula for Coca-cola has never been patented"},{"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"},{"fact":"Before its name was changed, the African Penguin used be called the Jackass Penguin because of its donkey-like braying call"},{"fact":"During the high feeding season, it has been estimated that an adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in one day. (Krill are shrimp like creatures)"},{"fact":"Pound for pound, leopards are said to be seven times stronger than humans"},{"fact":"One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving"},{"fact":"Botanically a rhubarb is a vegetable. It was changed to a fruit in 1947 by a U.S. Custom Court"},{"fact":"Sawney Beane, his wife, 8 sons, 6 daughters, and 32 grandchildren were a family of cannibals that lived in the caves near Galloway, Scotland in the early 17th Century. Although the total number is not known, it is believed they claimed over 50 victims per year. The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial"},{"fact":"The movie that grossed the most money that was adapted from a T.V. cartoon is Scooby-Doo"},{"fact":"There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose"},{"fact":"When Coca-Cola was invented, American tourists that visited Spain were surprised to see that Coke was three times as expensive as a glass of brandy"},{"fact":"Some silkworms can spin cocoons that contain more than two miles of silk"},{"fact":"The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch"},{"fact":"At one time, Pumpkins were recommended for the removal of freckles and curing snake bites"},{"fact":"The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies"},{"fact":"Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day"},{"fact":"The average Hostess Twinkie is 68 percent air as measured by volume according to university researchers"},{"fact":"In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car. This is ironic considering approximately 33% of the country's budget on import is spent on equipment for fuel and transportation."},{"fact":"Every U.S. bill regardless of denomination costs just 4 cents to make"},{"fact":"About 30% of American admit to talking to their dogs or leaving messages on their answering machines for their dogs while they are away"},{"fact":"A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why"},{"fact":"Caterpillar means \"hairy cat\" in Old French"},{"fact":"The ostrich has two toes on each feet which gives it greater speed"},{"fact":"On September 3, 1970, a hailstone was found in Coffeyville, Kansas that was eight inches in diameter and weighed 1.67 pounds."},{"fact":"Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest English word that consists strictly of alternating consonants and vowels"},{"fact":"It can take up to a month for a rattlesnake to re-supply its venom"},{"fact":"Close to 3 billion movie tickets are sold in India every year"},{"fact":"The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left"},{"fact":"There were approximately 2,228 people on board the Titanic when it sank. Of this, only 706 people survived"},{"fact":"An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more"},{"fact":"The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world"},{"fact":"Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can."},{"fact":"The name \"cranberry\" comes from German and Dutch settlers. The berry was intially called \"crane berry.\" The reason it was called this was because when the flowers bloom, the petals of the flowers twist backwards and look very much like the head of a crane. Eventually the name was shortened down to be \"cranberry.\""},{"fact":"In New Mexico, over eleven thousand people have visited a tortilla chip that appeared to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it"},{"fact":"On average, he ratio of yellow kernels to white kernals in a bag of popcorn is 9:1"},{"fact":"The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest"},{"fact":"In 1955, only 330 Volkswagen Beetle's were sold at a price of $1800 each in the United States."},{"fact":"Printed on the tablet being held by the Statue of Liberty is July IV, MDCCLXXVI"},{"fact":"The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands"},{"fact":"Orville Wright, a pilot, was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed."},{"fact":"The first company to mass produce teddy bears was the Ideal Toy Company"},{"fact":"Princess Anne from the British royal family competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics"},{"fact":"Brazil produces the most oranges in the world"},{"fact":"Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches."},{"fact":"The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams"},{"fact":"A human head remains conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is been decapitated"},{"fact":"Witchcraft means \"Craft of the Wise Ones.\""},{"fact":"500,000 kids in the US live in same sex households"},{"fact":"In July 1874, a swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts flew over Nebraska covering an area estimated at 198,600 square miles. It is estimated that the swarm contained about 12.5 trillion insects. These insects became extinct thirty years later"},{"fact":"Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth and receive over 80 inches of rain every year"},{"fact":"The feet have approximately 250,000 sweat glands"},{"fact":"Approximately 7.5% of all office documents get lost"},{"fact":"The desert tortoise can live without having to drink any water. It extracts the water it needs from the vegetation it eats"},{"fact":"There were 13 couples celebrating their honeymoon on the Titanic"},{"fact":"A cat has 32 muscles in each ear"},{"fact":"There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball"},{"fact":"Elvis Presley had a twin brother named Jesse Garon Presley who died at birth"},{"fact":"Robert Wadlow is the tallest man recorded in history. He grew to be eight feet and eleven inches and weighed 490 pounds when he died"},{"fact":"Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball"},{"fact":"Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked."},{"fact":"France is known as the perfume capital of the world"},{"fact":"According to psychologists, the shoe and the foot are the most common sources of sexual fetishism in Western society"},{"fact":"Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and the feces become dry"},{"fact":"One ton of grapes can produce 720 bottles of wine"},{"fact":"Eating about twenty tart cherries a day could reduce inflammatory pain and headache pain"},{"fact":"In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia"},{"fact":"Milk chocolate was invented in Switzerland by David Peter in 1876"},{"fact":"In November 1999, two women were killed by a lightning bolt. The underwire located in their bras acted as a electrical conductors, and when the lightning bolt hit the bra they left burn marks on their chest"},{"fact":"Basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891"},{"fact":"Over 100,000 birds and sea animals are killed every year due to plastic garbage"},{"fact":"The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head"},{"fact":"85% of weddings are held in a synagogue or church"},{"fact":"The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii"},{"fact":"It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs"},{"fact":"Before soccer referees started using whistles in 1878, they used to rely on waving a handkerchief"},{"fact":"Tobacco kills more Americans each year than alcohol, cocaine, crack, heroin, homicide, suicide, car accidents, fire and AIDS combined"},{"fact":"The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time"},{"fact":"Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion"},{"fact":"Americans, on average, spend 18% of his or her income on transportation as compared to only 13% spent on food"},{"fact":"There are some species of snails that are venomous. Their venom can be fatal to humans"},{"fact":"The first box of Crayola that was ever sold had the same eight colours that are sold in the box today consisting of red, blue, yellow, green, violet, orange, black and brown. The box was sold for a nickel in 1903"},{"fact":"A turtle can breathe through its butt."},{"fact":"The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound"},{"fact":"The average America online user spends 70 minutes day online"},{"fact":"People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache"},{"fact":"In 1938, Cliquot Club ginger ale was the first soft drink to be canned"},{"fact":"The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet"},{"fact":"Roughly 44% of junk mail is thrown away unopened"},{"fact":"Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers"},{"fact":"The laundry detergent Tide, has a market share of about forty percent market"},{"fact":"A Canadian, Troy Hurtubise, spent $100,000 and almost went bankrupt building a RoboCop style suit so that he could withstand a bear attack"},{"fact":"The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, andBudweiser, in that order."},{"fact":"The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game"},{"fact":"In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001"},{"fact":"The Bible has been translated into Klingon."},{"fact":"Ian Fleming named his character \"James Bond\" after real-life ornithologist and author"},{"fact":"Most dinosaurs walked on their toes."},{"fact":"On December 17 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80, the largest margin of victory in an NBA game"},{"fact":"There are mirrors on the moon. Astronauts left them so that laser beams could be bounced off of them from Earth. These beams help give us the distance to the moon give or take a few metres."},{"fact":"The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers"},{"fact":"The trunk of an elephant can hold up to two gallons of water"},{"fact":"Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people"},{"fact":"During the holiday season, approximately $220 million worth of Poinsettias are sold"},{"fact":"A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately 0.03 ounces and is small enough to fit in a teaspoon"},{"fact":"When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment"},{"fact":"The most senior crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after making 1.4 billion crayons for Crayola. It was then that he revealed that he was actually colorblind"},{"fact":"The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point inColorado."},{"fact":"Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system"},{"fact":"\"Go.\" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language"},{"fact":"There are more than 250,000 rivers in the United States, which amounts to 3.5 million miles of rivers"},{"fact":"Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day"},{"fact":"Pretzel that have no salt on them are called \"baldies.\""},{"fact":"The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold"},{"fact":"Monopoly is the best-selling board game in the world"},{"fact":"There was a book written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic happened titled \"Futility\" by Morgan Robertson. This book was remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened to the Titanic in 1912"},{"fact":"One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it"},{"fact":"A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel"},{"fact":"Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels"},{"fact":"Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk"},{"fact":"Two out of five people end up marrying their first love"},{"fact":"The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters"},{"fact":"The name \"Muppet\" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word \"marionette\" and \"puppet.\""},{"fact":"In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years"},{"fact":"The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. This is also known as the Twelve Days of Christmas"},{"fact":"Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue more than any other color"},{"fact":"In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale"},{"fact":"Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time"},{"fact":"When blue whales are first born, they gain as much as 200 pounds a day while they are calves"},{"fact":"Families who do turn off the television during meals tend to eat healthier. This was regardless of family income, or education"},{"fact":"About 25 percent of all the energy consumed in the US is from natural gas"},{"fact":"American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript"},{"fact":"If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb"},{"fact":"Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic games while hosting the event"},{"fact":"The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore"},{"fact":"In America, approximately 20% of children between the ages of 2 - 7 have televisions in their rooms"},{"fact":"Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation."},{"fact":"In 1996, toy company Mattel released a \"Harley Davidson\" Barbie. This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face that changes position with every new release of the doll"},{"fact":"The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand"},{"fact":"There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia"},{"fact":"On average, pigs live for about 15 years"},{"fact":"Roughly 42% of people in the United Kingdom snore"},{"fact":"No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl"},{"fact":"Beluga whales which are also called \"white whales\" are not born white. They are born grey in color, and by the age of six become completely white"},{"fact":"Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named \"Sportsman of the Year\" by magazine Sports Illustrated two times"},{"fact":"The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish"},{"fact":"Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts"},{"fact":"There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow"},{"fact":"Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom"},{"fact":"570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House"},{"fact":"Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day"},{"fact":"Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world"},{"fact":"The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year"},{"fact":"The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every fivemust be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips intimes ofwar or other emergencies."},{"fact":"Pluto was discovered on February 10, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh"},{"fact":"Termites have been around for over 250 million years"},{"fact":"The average person changes their career every 13 years"},{"fact":"The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles"},{"fact":"Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose"},{"fact":"Over 4.5 billion sticks have Trident gum have been chewed. If the stick of gum were laid out end to end they could circle the globe approximately 1.8 times"},{"fact":"Oak trees can live 200 or more years"},{"fact":"The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells"},{"fact":"About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry"},{"fact":"A rainbow can occur only when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon"},{"fact":"If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple"},{"fact":"Over $7 billion a year is spent on chocolates by consumers"},{"fact":"During World War II, Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks. They trained the dogs to associate the tanks with food and ended up destroying about 25 German tanks using this method"},{"fact":"Butterflies taste with their feet"},{"fact":"St. Louis, Missouri was the first U.S. city to host the summer Olympics in 1904"},{"fact":"The phrase \"rule of thumb\" is derived from an old English law whichstated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than yourthumb."},{"fact":"Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale"},{"fact":"A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks"},{"fact":"It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot"},{"fact":"The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels"},{"fact":"In the U.S. peanuts account for 66% of all snack nuts"},{"fact":"There are approximately 7,000 feathers on an eagle"},{"fact":"Sharks can sense a drop of blood from a mile away"},{"fact":"As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp. Basically it plays dead"},{"fact":"The longest town name in the world has 167 letters"},{"fact":"A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h"},{"fact":"A cesium atom in an atomic clock that beats over nine billion times a second."},{"fact":"The mythical Scottish town of Brigadoon appears for one day every one hundred years"},{"fact":"Kermit the frog delivered the commencement address at Southampton College located in the state of New York in 1996"},{"fact":"In World War II, the German submarine U-120 was sunk by a malfunctioning toilet"},{"fact":"The phrase \"Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride,\" actually originates from an advertisement for Listerine mouthwash from 1924"},{"fact":"Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot"},{"fact":"The largest cultivated crop in the United States is corn"},{"fact":"Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four"},{"fact":"On average, Americans eat one hundred acres of pizza a day. This amounts to about three hundred fifty slices per second"},{"fact":"As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice"},{"fact":"The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles"},{"fact":"The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C"},{"fact":"Most toilets flush in E flat"},{"fact":"Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour"},{"fact":"At one time the group \"Grateful Dead\" were called \"The Warlocks.\""},{"fact":"Bats can detect food up to 18 feet away and what type of insect the food may be using their sense of echolocation"},{"fact":"At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour"},{"fact":"People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose"},{"fact":"In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year"},{"fact":"On average, an American home has 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials"},{"fact":"On average, 35 meters of hair fibre is produced on the adult scalp"},{"fact":"Dalmatian puppies do not have any spots on them when they are born. They actually develop them as they get older"},{"fact":"Male goats will pee on each other in order to attract mates"},{"fact":"A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957"},{"fact":"In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years"},{"fact":"The study of twins is known as gemellology"},{"fact":"On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the \"1\" encased in the \"shield\" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner"},{"fact":"During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents."},{"fact":"When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly"},{"fact":"Every 40,000 children are killed by fires"},{"fact":"The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour"},{"fact":"In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball"},{"fact":"In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere"},{"fact":"The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse"},{"fact":"When the are in danger, kangaroos will beat the ground loudly with their hind feet"},{"fact":"To manufacture a new car approximately 148,000 liters of water is needed."},{"fact":"In 410 A.D. Alaric the Visigoth demanded that Rome give him three thousand pounds of pepper as ransom"},{"fact":"Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket"},{"fact":"Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate"},{"fact":"An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes kissing in their car in a lifetime"},{"fact":"In gangster slang, a boxing match that is fixed is called a \"barney.\""},{"fact":"In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills"},{"fact":"In a year, an average person uses the toilet 2500 times a year"},{"fact":"A honey bee has four wings"},{"fact":"The Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy until the founder, Amedeo Giannini, changed the name in 1930"},{"fact":"Other than London, Liverpool is the most filmed British city, and was used to film more than 140 films in 2002"},{"fact":"The body of the average baby is 75% water"},{"fact":"A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists."},{"fact":"Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups"},{"fact":"There are more than 2,000 different varieties of cheese in the world"},{"fact":"On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day"},{"fact":"An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham"},{"fact":"Reports from owners of cats and dogs indicate that 21% of dogs and 7% of cats snore"},{"fact":"The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour"},{"fact":"To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets"},{"fact":"At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel"},{"fact":"The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear"},{"fact":"India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century"},{"fact":"The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer"},{"fact":"Some African tribes refer to themselves as \"motherhoods\" instead of families"},{"fact":"Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India"},{"fact":"The word vaccine comes from the Latin word \"vacca,\" which means cow. This name was chosen beacause the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy"},{"fact":"James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang"},{"fact":"A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them"},{"fact":"Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary"},{"fact":"Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up"},{"fact":"The largest spider ever was the Megarachne which had a diameter of 50 cm. The fossil was found in Argentina"},{"fact":"In Russia, when flowers are given for a romantic occasions, flowers are given in odds numbers as even number of flowers is given at funerals only"},{"fact":"Next to man, the porpoise is the most intelligent creature on earth"},{"fact":"The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as twenty-five minutes"},{"fact":"The Australian box-jellyfish has eight eyes"},{"fact":"In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee"},{"fact":"A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon"},{"fact":"The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma"},{"fact":"In the UK, one third of accidental deaths that happen occur in the home"},{"fact":"After the U.S Civil War, about 33%-50% of all U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit"},{"fact":"Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined"},{"fact":"The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters"},{"fact":"Tycho Brahe, a 16th century astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with one of his students over a mathematical computation. He wore a silver replacement nose for the rest of his life"},{"fact":"Termites do more damage in the U.S. ever year than all the fires, storms and earthquakes combined. They do an average of $750 million in damage annually"},{"fact":"Burger King restaurants serve over 400 million ounces of orange juice annually"},{"fact":"Each year the Pentagon estimates their computer network is hacked about 250,000 times annually"},{"fact":"The first president to ride in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt"},{"fact":"The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the \"American Pie.\" (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)"},{"fact":"A tree in metropolitan area will survive for approximately eight years"},{"fact":"The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada"},{"fact":"The sex of a baby crocodile is determined by the temperature in the nest and how deeply the eggs are buried"},{"fact":"Polar bears are left handed"},{"fact":"Food can only be tasted if it is mixed with saliva"},{"fact":"Walter Hunt patented the safety pin in 1849. He later sold the patent rights for only $400."},{"fact":"The coliseum in Rome was used regularly for about 400 years"},{"fact":"Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day"},{"fact":"The first formal rules for playing the sport of baseball required the winning team to score 21 runs"},{"fact":"The University of Plymouth was the first university to offer a degree in surfing"},{"fact":"Retail sales for soft drinks in the United States in 2001 were more than sixty billion dollars"},{"fact":"Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older"},{"fact":"In Quebec, Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different colour than butter"},{"fact":"In the United States, about 33% of land is covered by forests"},{"fact":"Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries"},{"fact":"Shridhar Chillal from India is known to have the record for the longest fingernails in the world, which were each at least three feet long"},{"fact":"In 1905, Chapman and Skinner in San Francisco invented the first portable electric vacuum."},{"fact":"Minimum wage was 0.25 per hour when it was first enacted in 1938"},{"fact":"The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye"},{"fact":"In 1785, the city of Paris removed bones from cemeteries to ease the overflow of dead people. They took these bones and stacked them in tunnels now known as the Catacombs. You can visit these tunnel attractions and work your way along long corridors, which are stacked with skulls and bones"},{"fact":"It is estimated that over fifty-four million people died in World War II, which was the bloodiest war in history"},{"fact":"Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but were invented in India by the Hindus"},{"fact":"Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity"},{"fact":"The first ever \"World Summit on Toilets\" was held in Singapore in November 2001"},{"fact":"Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana"},{"fact":"Researchers have developed odourless socks. The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers"},{"fact":"Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour"},{"fact":"In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head"},{"fact":"MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought of the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history"},{"fact":"Marilyn Monroe had six toes"},{"fact":"The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana"},{"fact":"The state of Alaska has almost twice as many caribou as people"},{"fact":"Another way to say \"every 9 years\" is Novennial"},{"fact":"In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived"},{"fact":"Close to fifty percent of Internet shoppers spend over five hours a week online"},{"fact":"Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the USA"},{"fact":"For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier"},{"fact":"Using recycled aluminum cans and making news cans out of them saves 75% energy compared to making it from new material."},{"fact":"In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles"},{"fact":"Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows"},{"fact":"There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA"},{"fact":"In the year 2000, there were approximately 11,000 injuries that were treated in a hospital in the U.S. that resulted from fireworks"},{"fact":"Brazil is the largest producers of oranges in the world"},{"fact":"4% of an apples is made up of minerals and vitamins, and over 80% is made up of water"},{"fact":"From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain"},{"fact":"In 1902, the coat hanger was invented Albert Parkhouse who was frustrated at the lack of hooks available to hang up his coat at work. His company thought it was a good idea and patented the invention and unfortunately, Parkhouse never received any money for his idea"},{"fact":"If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes"},{"fact":"The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days"},{"fact":"In WWII, when allied armies reached the Rhine River the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it). Gen. Patton had himself photographed in the act"},{"fact":"Peaches were once known as Persian apples"},{"fact":"Dustin Phillips of the U.S. has the record for ketchup drinking. He drank a 14-ounce bottle of tomato ketchup through a ? inch straw in 33 seconds on September 23, 1999"},{"fact":"Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida"},{"fact":"The blackberry bush is also called the \"bramble.\""},{"fact":"The city of Tokyo was originally called Edo"},{"fact":"The sun shrinks five feet every hour"},{"fact":"There have been 191 coops in Bolivia since it became a sovereign country in 1825"},{"fact":"During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk"},{"fact":"The first TV commercial advertisement was by the Bulova Watch company on July 1, 1941. The watch company paid $9.00 for an announcement that was 10 seconds long"},{"fact":"Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated"},{"fact":"A common custom in Spain is to eat one grape for each of the last 12 seconds of every year for good luck"},{"fact":"Bill Gates began programming computers at age 13"},{"fact":"Tobacco contains over 50 chemicals that can cause cancer"},{"fact":"Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight"},{"fact":"The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird. The bird is 2.24 inches long"},{"fact":"A species of earthworm, \"Megascolides australis,\" in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length"},{"fact":"Hannibal, who was a soldier, had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome"},{"fact":"The full name of the Titanic ship is R.M.S. Titanic, which stands for Royal Mail Steamship"},{"fact":"Electronic companies sell five times as many big-screen TVs during Super Bowl Week"},{"fact":"Everyday approximately 35 meters of hair fibre is produced on the scalp of an adult"},{"fact":"A U.S. company came out with a toilet night-light that sends out a green warning beacon when the seat is up"},{"fact":"A little under one quarter of the people in the world are vegetarians"},{"fact":"There are approximately 1300 species of scorpion but only 25 of them are deadly"},{"fact":"An egg shell can have up to 17,000 tiny pores on its surface"},{"fact":"A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days"},{"fact":"66% of home based businesses are owned by women"},{"fact":"There are approximately 60 muscles in the face"},{"fact":"In 1924, Kleenex tissues were originally designed as a cold cream remover"},{"fact":"A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder"},{"fact":"Every second, 8000 Coca-Cola Company products are consumed in the world"},{"fact":"If all the strawberries produced in California annually were put side by side, they would wrap around the Earth fifteen times"},{"fact":"Devon, England has about 33,000 miles of hedgerows, more hedgerows than any other country"},{"fact":"\"Bookkeeper\" is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters"},{"fact":"An average home creates more pollution than does the average car"},{"fact":"Four out of five brides in the U.S. have a job"},{"fact":"75-90% of primary physician visits are due to stress"},{"fact":"The reason why the Canadian Arctic is called the \"Land of the Midnight Sun\" is because during the summer many communities have light 24 hours of the day. Many people have to cover their windows with tin foil to keep the light out when they sleep"},{"fact":"On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag"},{"fact":"Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998"},{"fact":"A rocket-like device can be traced back to Ancient Greece when a flying steam-powered pigeon was built out of wood."},{"fact":"The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional baseball team"},{"fact":"In 1871, horse cars were introduced. It was simply a car that was pulled over a track by a horse."},{"fact":"High Priests in ancient Egypt were the only ones who were allowed to wear garments made from cotton"},{"fact":"Kellogg?s started selling their most famous product, Corn Flakes, in 1906"},{"fact":"Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache"},{"fact":"Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest bar per capita than anywhere else in the world"},{"fact":"The Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world before the construction of the Empire State Building in 1930"},{"fact":"The first American celebration of St. Patricks Day was at Boston in 1737"},{"fact":"The name of the popular sports drink Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was developed"},{"fact":"The largest employer in Central Florida is Walt Disney World. There are approximately 50,000 people working there"},{"fact":"In his youth, United States president George W. Bush used to play for the Midland (Texas) Central Little League. He played the position of the catcher"},{"fact":"The number of births that occur in India each year is higher than the entire population of Australia"},{"fact":"Bobby Carpenter was the first American player to score 50 goals in a season"},{"fact":"The word, tattoo originated from the Tahitain word \"tattau\" which means \"to mark.\""},{"fact":"There was no punctuation until the 15th century"},{"fact":"All babies are colour blind when they are born"},{"fact":"Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks"},{"fact":"There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue"},{"fact":"A fetus starts to develop fingerprints at the age of eight weeks"},{"fact":"The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose"},{"fact":"Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses"},{"fact":"On October 15, 1794, the first silver dollar coins were released to be circulated to the public"},{"fact":"In one day, the Tootsie Roll Industry makes over 16 million lollipops"},{"fact":"In many of the milk ads that are shown, a mix of thinner and white paint is used instead of milk"},{"fact":"Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavoured ice cream produced. However, they discontinued it since they thought it would not sell well"},{"fact":"In an year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls"},{"fact":"The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat"},{"fact":"A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks"},{"fact":"Majority of brides plan their wedding for approximately 7 to 12 months"},{"fact":"The word assassination was invented by William Shakespeare"},{"fact":"Benjamin Franklin invented the rocking chair."},{"fact":"Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935"},{"fact":"In the wild, the poinsettia flower can reach a height of 12 feet, and have leaves that are eight inches across."},{"fact":"Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933."},{"fact":"A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers"},{"fact":"On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag"},{"fact":"TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard"},{"fact":"Bill Gates donated close to $100 million to fight AIDS in India. As a percent of his total wealth, this would be comparable to him donating ten cents if he only had $60"},{"fact":"In the U.S. there is, on average, three sex change operations per day"},{"fact":"The American Airlines Sports Center, in Dallas, has most toilets per capita than any other sports and entertainment venue in the USA"},{"fact":"In 1999, a three headed turtle was discovered by Lin Chi-Fa in his pond in Southern Taiwan"},{"fact":"Approximately one out of every 55 women from Canada give birth in their car on the way to the hospital or clinic"},{"fact":"The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon"},{"fact":"The most popular show amongst baby boomers is Star Trek."},{"fact":"The first jet engine was invented by Frank Whittleof of England in 1930."},{"fact":"In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water"},{"fact":"The term \"the whole 9 yards\" came from WWII fighter pilots in thePacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 calibermachine gunammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into thefuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got \"the whole 9yards.\""},{"fact":"In 1948 and 1950 the oldest ears of popping corn were discovered. They were located in the Bat Cave of west central New Mexico. They ranged in size from smaller than a penny to approximately two inches, and were about 4,000 years old"},{"fact":"The only real person to be a Pez head was Betsy Ross"},{"fact":"It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines"},{"fact":"The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game"},{"fact":"Watermelon is considered a good gift to give a host in Japan and China"},{"fact":"The planet Venus spins opposite to the other planets in the solar system"},{"fact":"During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times"},{"fact":"Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls"},{"fact":"Dieting can cause bad breath since less saliva is produced which leads to dry mouth"},{"fact":"At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds."},{"fact":"Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches"},{"fact":"When an orange is shown in any of the \"Godfather\" movies, this means that someone is about to die or a close call is to occur."},{"fact":"Doctors in Canada use an adhesive similar to Krazy Glue instead of stitches, lowering the possibility of bacterial infection and minimizing scarring"},{"fact":"Soil that is heated by geysers are now making it possible to produce bananas in Iceland"},{"fact":"Chameleon is derived from the Greek, meaning \"little lion.\""},{"fact":"The name Aspirin was invented from \"A\" in acetyl chloride. The \"spir\" comes from spiraea ulmaria which is the plant that they got the salicylic acid from, and the \"in\" was used because back then it was popular to end the name of medicines with \"in.\""},{"fact":"About 30% of Canadians rely on getting their water from the ground for their domestic use"},{"fact":"The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray"},{"fact":"There is a town in Norway called \"Hell\""},{"fact":"Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 am"},{"fact":"No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses"},{"fact":"A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds"},{"fact":"May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months"},{"fact":"Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away"},{"fact":"The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3."},{"fact":"In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States"},{"fact":"The United Parcel Service shipped the killer whale Keiko (star of Disney movie \"Free Willy\") from Mexico City to Newport, Oregon in 1998"},{"fact":"Hippos can live up to 40 years in the wild"},{"fact":"The windiest place in the world is Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA. The highest wind was on April 12, 1934 when it reached 231 mph."},{"fact":"The first restaurant to open in Hollywood was the Musso & Frank Grill in 1919"},{"fact":"Corn Flakes were invented after Will Keith Kellogg and his brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg set about developing a nutritious cereal for the patients of a health resort in 1890"},{"fact":"The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations"},{"fact":"Huge Moore, the inventor of Dixie cups got the idea for the name from a neighboring factory, the Dixie Doll Company"},{"fact":"The turkey was once nominated to be the official bird of the United States"},{"fact":"In 1958 the United States sent three mice into space named, Mia, Laska and Benji"},{"fact":"On average, Americans spend five times more of their time in their cars than they do on vacation"},{"fact":"Natural gas does not have any odor. In order to detect a gas leak, some gas companies add a chemical that smells similar like rotten eggs."},{"fact":"Spiders have claws at the ends of their legs"},{"fact":"Warner Brothers Corset Company created the bra cup sizing system, which is now used universally used by manufacturers"},{"fact":"In the U.S. 7 out of 10 homes use candles"},{"fact":"Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder"},{"fact":"It takes approximately 12 years for Jupiter to orbit the sun"},{"fact":"98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set"},{"fact":"Reserves from the Irish army were used as extras in the movie \"Braveheart.\""},{"fact":"80% of people that are on weight loss programs exercise on average three times a week"},{"fact":"The first Valentine candy box was invented by Richard Cadbury in the 1800's."},{"fact":"An olive tree can live up to 1500 years"},{"fact":"96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich"},{"fact":"Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches"},{"fact":"Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury"},{"fact":"The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean"},{"fact":"By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved"},{"fact":"The biggest hamburger that was served was 8,266 pounds. It was made at the Burger Fest in Seymour, Wisconsin"},{"fact":"The electric chair was invented by a dentist"},{"fact":"Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous"},{"fact":"On average, a hen lays 300 eggs per year"},{"fact":"BluBlocker sunglasses were developed with lenses that were used in the NASA space program for American astronauts"},{"fact":"Pearls melt in vinegar"},{"fact":"There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the US"},{"fact":"Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word \"criminal.\" The second? William Jefferson Clinton"},{"fact":"A chicken is 75% water"},{"fact":"If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white"},{"fact":"During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard)"},{"fact":"Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke"},{"fact":"It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household lightbulbs to complete an orbit."},{"fact":"Approximately 850 peanuts make a 18 oz jar of peanut butter"},{"fact":"The age of a saguaro cactus is calculated by its height"},{"fact":"The most expensive animated movie is \"Prince of Egypt\", which cost $70 million to make"},{"fact":"Koalas sleep up to 19 hours a day"},{"fact":"The oldest roller coaster in the world is the Leap-The-Dips roller coaster located in Lakemont Park in Pennsylvania. The roller coaster was built in 1902"},{"fact":"There are three golf balls sitting on the moon"},{"fact":"You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider"},{"fact":"The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds."},{"fact":"When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 milesper year."},{"fact":"The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney decided to make it into an animated movie"},{"fact":"The name Santa Claus came from Saint Nicholas who was a bishop in the town of Myra, and was known to be very nice to children"},{"fact":"Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation"},{"fact":"At the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, Walt Disney was head of the committee that organized the opening day ceremonies"},{"fact":"No other animal gives us more by-products than the hog. These by-products include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk, and insulation to name a few"},{"fact":"The ruby red slippers in the movie \"The Wizard of Oz\" were sold off at an auction for $660,000"},{"fact":"40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate"},{"fact":"It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth."},{"fact":"Olives, which grow on trees, were first cultivated 5,000 years ago in Syria"},{"fact":"A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery"},{"fact":"When explorers first arrived in Venezuela, they were reminded of Venice. They named the country \"Little Venice\", which translated into Spanish is Venezuela"},{"fact":"Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister"},{"fact":"Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed"},{"fact":"When a polar bear cub is born, it can not see or hear. It takes approximately a month for the cub to start to see and hear"},{"fact":"Girls have more tastebud than boys"},{"fact":"Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute"},{"fact":"Platypuses mate in the water"},{"fact":"Julie Nixon, daughter of Richard Nixon married David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight Eisenhower"},{"fact":"The microwave oven was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket."},{"fact":"The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel"},{"fact":"A flea can jump 150 times its size. That is the same as a person able to jump up 1,000 feet in the air"},{"fact":"Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, once pinned an opponent using only a single finger"},{"fact":"The game of squash originated in the United Kingdom. It came about after a few boys, who were waiting for their turn to play racquets, knocked a ball around in a confined area adjoining the racquets court"},{"fact":"Coca-Cola was originally green"},{"fact":"When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not \"playing.\" Theyactually pass out from sheer terror."},{"fact":"You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television"},{"fact":"Lady Bugs really are not bugs. They are actually beetles and their correct name is The Ladybird Beetle"},{"fact":"The name Reebok was named after the African Gazelle"},{"fact":"The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs"},{"fact":"New Jersey has a spoon museum that has over 5,400 spoons from across the world"},{"fact":"Hydrogen is the most common atom in the universe"},{"fact":"There is a town named Dildo in the province of Newfoundland, Canada"},{"fact":"For every human in the world there are one million ants"},{"fact":"The word \"nerd\" was first coined by Dr. Suess in the book \"If I Ran to the Zoo.\""},{"fact":"The postage rate for a letter in 1693 was determined through how much light could pass through the letter. The postage rate would be more expensive if less light went through, and this process was called candling"},{"fact":"The Sears Tower located in Chicago, Illinois is made up 76,000 tons of steel"},{"fact":"Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots"},{"fact":"There are more recreational golfers per capita in Canada than any other country in the world"},{"fact":"Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical"},{"fact":"The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000"},{"fact":"Playwright Shakespeare was only 18 years old when he married Ann Hathaway, who was 26 years old at the time"},{"fact":"Wherever a person is standing in the state of Michigan in the United States, they are within 85 miles of one of the Great Lakes"},{"fact":"It only takes a male horse 14 seconds to copulate"},{"fact":"The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile"},{"fact":"After being picked an orange cannot ripen"},{"fact":"The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material"},{"fact":"On average, a whole chicken from the grocery store weighs 3 pounds 12 ounces"},{"fact":"A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy."},{"fact":"Singer Paula Abdul used to be a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers"},{"fact":"Fossilized bird droppings are one of the chief exports of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific"},{"fact":"Water expands 9% when it is frozen"},{"fact":"The first toilet tank ever seen on television was on Leave it to Beaver"},{"fact":"The origin of apples traces back to the Middle East over 4,000 years ago"},{"fact":"The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger"},{"fact":"99% of pumpkins that are sold are sold for decoration"},{"fact":"On Sunday, December 7, 1941 at 7:55 AM, the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced"},{"fact":"If all the cars from the U.S. were taken and lined up from bumper to bumper, there would be enough cars to go to the moon from earth and back."},{"fact":"The elephant is the national animal of Thailand"},{"fact":"A Canadian Tour company offers a two-day course in igloo building"},{"fact":"Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day"},{"fact":"A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why."},{"fact":"When the Pez mint dispenser was first introduced it was meant to replace the activity of smoking"},{"fact":"Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones"},{"fact":"The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom."},{"fact":"A B-25 bomber airplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945"},{"fact":"Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic"},{"fact":"From all the vegetables, beets contain the most sugar"},{"fact":"Smelling bananas can help a person lose weight"},{"fact":"In Miami, Florida, roosting vultures have taken to snatching poodles from rooftop patios"},{"fact":"Only female mosquitoes bite humans. Male mosquitoes live on natural liquids from plants and other resources"},{"fact":"An estimated 690 million people live in Africa"},{"fact":"The difference between horns and antlers is that horns never stop growing and antlers shed and grow every year"},{"fact":"African Baobab tree's circumference can reach 180 feet. If the trunk is hollow, 20 people would be able to fit inside of it."},{"fact":"On average, the Pentagon uses 666 rolls of toilet paper in one day"},{"fact":"The USS Abraham Lincoln has five gymnasiums on the ship and a basketball league with 22 teams"},{"fact":"Found in Argentina, the ornate horned frog can eat an entire mouse with one swallow"},{"fact":"Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps in 1840"},{"fact":"During World War II, there was not enough sugar in the U.S. to make candy as it was sent to the troops overseas. At this time, popcorn was consumed three times more than its usual amount"},{"fact":"The most famous movie theatre is the \"Chinese Theatre\" located in Los Angeles, USA"},{"fact":"In the U.S., the sport that causes the most injuries among the age group of 15-24 is basketball"},{"fact":"Oscar Wilde and his friends came up the with the word \"dude.\" It came from the words \"duds\" and \"attitude.\""},{"fact":"By weight, the sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements."},{"fact":"Melba toast is named after an Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba"},{"fact":"Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun"},{"fact":"Talc was used by cavemen 15,000 years ago as an ingredient added to make paint"},{"fact":"Ants do not sleep"},{"fact":"The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavor space shuttle from Sept 12-20, 1992"},{"fact":"Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space. She spent three days in space and completed forty-eight orbits of Earth"},{"fact":"More than 3000 years ago children played with circular hoops made with grape vines. This toy was swung around the waist. Years later this toy was made by company called Wham-O and the Hula-Hoop was invented in 1958"},{"fact":"The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897."},{"fact":"Owls swallow their prey whole because they have no teeth. After approximately 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet"},{"fact":"Sharks have survived on earth for about 400 million years"},{"fact":"Ukrainian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, created the modern day Christian calendar"},{"fact":"The revenue that is generated from gambling is more than the revenue that comes from movies, cruise ships, recorded music, theme parks, and spectator sports combined"},{"fact":"Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size"},{"fact":"An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime"},{"fact":"A starfish can turn its stomach inside out"},{"fact":"The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 for a store promotion by an advertising employee of the department store Montgomery Ward"},{"fact":"Actor Charlie Chaplin made 81 movies over a career that spanned 50 years"},{"fact":"The music group Simply Red got its name from band member Mick Hucknall, who has red hair"},{"fact":"Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer"},{"fact":"The lifespan of a rhinoceros is generally 50 years"},{"fact":"41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day"},{"fact":"The largest ice cream sundae was made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream, was 12 feet high and had 7000 pounds of toppings on it. This was made in Anaheim, California in 1985"},{"fact":"The name of the award given to honor the best sites on the Internet is called \"The Webby Award.\""},{"fact":"The United States Mint once considered producing donut-shaped coins."},{"fact":"A Hungarian named Ladislo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938."},{"fact":"Adolf Hitler loved chocolate cake"},{"fact":"Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should. When they cut the fish, fishermen found a full of bottle of ale inside it"},{"fact":"George Washington grew hemp in his garden"},{"fact":"In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually"},{"fact":"In 1980, Saddam Hussein received a key to the city of Detroit"},{"fact":"The song \"Strawberry Fields Forever\" sung by the Beatles refers to an orphanage located in Liverpool"},{"fact":"False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths"},{"fact":"In 1952, the first TV toy commercial aired. It was for Mr. Potato Head"},{"fact":"In the United States, approximately seven billion pounds of chocolate and candy are manufactured each year"},{"fact":"Mules have one horse and one donkey for a parent"},{"fact":"On average, 350 squirts are needed from milking a cow to make a gallon of milk"},{"fact":"On average, a baby in the United States will eat fifteen pounds of cereal in their first year of life"},{"fact":"The name Hasbro was invented by the name of the founders: HASsenfeld BROthers"},{"fact":"Percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%"},{"fact":"Due to sugar shortages to make candy during World War II, movie theatre owners turned to popcorn, which is now the best selling snack at movie theatres today"},{"fact":"A group of whales is called a pod or gam"},{"fact":"Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colourless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance"},{"fact":"There is a type of coffin made that can be used as a wine rack or picnic table before its final use"},{"fact":"One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water"},{"fact":"After the Eiffel Tower was built, one person was killed during the installation of the lifts. No one was killed during the actual construction of the tower"},{"fact":"Approximately 87% of dog owners say that when they watch T.V. their dog curls up beside them or at their feet"},{"fact":"Bernd Eilts, a German artist, turns dried cow manure into wall clocks and small sculptures. He is now expanding his business to include cow dung wrist watches"},{"fact":"People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones"},{"fact":"In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere."},{"fact":"The human heart weighs less than a pound"},{"fact":"The first Life Saver flavour, which was peppermint, was invented in 1912 and it was called Pep-O-Mint"},{"fact":"The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years"},{"fact":"Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate"},{"fact":"On February 10, 1964 the first self-adhesive stamps were issued"},{"fact":"The ocean sunfish can produce thirty million eggs at once"},{"fact":"The highest point in France is Mont Blanc, located in the Alps."},{"fact":"The American Automobile association was formed in 1905 for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps"},{"fact":"Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older"},{"fact":"In England, a cigarette is referred to as a fag"},{"fact":"If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar"},{"fact":"In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan"},{"fact":"Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky"},{"fact":"In 1976, fourteen banks merged to form a bank credit card called \"Mastercharge.\" This was later renamed to what is now know as \"Mastercard.\""},{"fact":"American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class"},{"fact":"There are over 500 different types of bananas"},{"fact":"In 1848, the first American pasta factory opened in Brooklyn, New York. The name of the man that opened it was Antoine Zerega"},{"fact":"Albert Einstein was cremated and his ashes were spread over a river located in New Jersey"},{"fact":"Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does"},{"fact":"Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women"},{"fact":"The longest acceptance speech in the history of the Oscars was by Greer Garson in 1942. She received an Oscar for Best Actress for the movie Mrs. Miniver, and her speech was five minutes and 30 seconds long"},{"fact":"Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older"},{"fact":"Octopi change colours when they become frightened. Normally they are a brownish colour, but can change to green or blue when fear sets in"},{"fact":"A \"gelotologist\" is a person who studies laughter"},{"fact":"A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body"},{"fact":"Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth"},{"fact":"The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores"},{"fact":"The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin"},{"fact":"38% of Americans eat breakfast everyday"},{"fact":"There are over 100 styles of BluBlocker sunglasses available on the market"},{"fact":"When a predator is chasing an impala, a type of antelope, it runs in a zig zag formation jumping as high as three metres"},{"fact":"David Rice Atchinson was President of the United States for exactly one day. This happened due to a glitch in American law at the time. new"},{"fact":"To make one glass of orange juice, 50 glasses of water are needed to grow enough oranges to make the juice"},{"fact":"Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air"},{"fact":"Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain"},{"fact":"Pigs have no sweat glands, which is why they stay in water or mud to keep cool"},{"fact":"There is no element on Mendeleev's (the current) periodic table of elements abbreviated, either partially, or fully, with the letter J."},{"fact":"One of the Bond girls in the James Bond movie, \"For Your Eyes Only,\" used to be a man"},{"fact":"The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket"},{"fact":"In February 1878, the first telephone book was published in New Haven, Connecticut. The book was one page long and had fifty names in it."},{"fact":"Only President to win a Pulitzer: John F. 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Also parrotfish livers, and pheasant brains were feasted on"},{"fact":"In 2002, the most popular car color in North America was silver."},{"fact":"Forty percent of Americans iron their clothes while wearing their underwear or being completely naked"},{"fact":"About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate"},{"fact":"The largest volcano known is on Mars: Olympus Mons, 370 miles wide and 79,000 feet high, is almost three times higher than Mount Everest"},{"fact":"Mexican jumping beans jump because of moth larvae inside the bean"},{"fact":"Women blink nearly twice as much as men"},{"fact":"Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush"},{"fact":"There are 691 drinking fountains in the Pentagon"},{"fact":"Author Robert May considered the names of Reginald and Rollo before he settled on \"Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.\""},{"fact":"A study concludes that kids who snore do poorly in school"},{"fact":"When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food"},{"fact":"Chocolate maker Cadbury uses more than sixty thousand tonnes of cocoa each year, in the United Kingdom alone"},{"fact":"There are more pigs than humans in Denmark"},{"fact":"A human eyeball weighs an ounce"},{"fact":"The \"Mexican Hat Dance\" is the official dance of Mexico"},{"fact":"The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893"},{"fact":"The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat"},{"fact":"Peladophobia refers to the fear of bald people"},{"fact":"One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years"},{"fact":"In the U.S., 75% of the pencils sold are painted yellow"},{"fact":"A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurone disease"},{"fact":"In Canada, the $1 and $2 come in the form of coins. The $1 is nicknamed a \"loonie\" because it contains a loon on it and the $2 is nicknamed the \"twonie\" because it is the equivalent of two \"loonies.\""},{"fact":"Singer Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem"},{"fact":"On average a business document is copied 19 times"},{"fact":"Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights"},{"fact":"The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales"},{"fact":"If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs inthe air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg inthe air,the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horsehasall four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes."},{"fact":"There are two credit cards for every person in the United States"},{"fact":"An average person consumes the equivalent of 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese"},{"fact":"65% of the candy that is produced in an year is consumed by American adults 18 years and older"},{"fact":"The little circles of paper that are cut out after a paper has been punched by a hole puncher are called \"chad.\""},{"fact":"Teflon is the most slipperiest substance in the world"},{"fact":"The lifespan of a firefly is about seven days. During these days, they are busy trying to find a mate"},{"fact":"A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour"},{"fact":"Fried spiders taste like nuts"},{"fact":"In one day, adult lungs move about 10,000 litres of air"},{"fact":"Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw"},{"fact":"On average, Americans move to a new place eleven times in their lifetime"},{"fact":"Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use"},{"fact":"The strongest muscle in the body is the jaw"},{"fact":"The Golden Gate Bridge was first opened in 1937"},{"fact":"No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple"},{"fact":"In an episode of the 1962 cartoon The Jestons, Jane Jetson is talking through a video phone. The phone number of The Jetsons was VENUS-1234"},{"fact":"Trees that are near street lights do not shed their leaves as fast as a tree that is in the country"},{"fact":"No president of the United States was an only child"},{"fact":"7-Eleven is the largest retail chain in the world. 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This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird"},{"fact":"The word \"America\" comes from the European explorer \"Amerigo Vespucci"},{"fact":"Over 100 million birds die annually by crashing into glass windows in the United States"},{"fact":"Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb was afraid of the dark"},{"fact":"In 1933, Mickey Mouse is believed to have received 800,000 fan letters"},{"fact":"Male rabbits are called \"bucks,\" females are \"does.\""},{"fact":"It took eleven years to built the Taj Mahal, (1632-1643)"},{"fact":"Mangos are known throughout the world as the \"King of Fruits.\""},{"fact":"The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees celsius"},{"fact":"Wild Flamingos are pink because they consume vast quantities of algae and brine shrimp"},{"fact":"The word \"diastema\" is the word for having a gap between your teeth"},{"fact":"While digging, an Armadillo can hold its breath for up to six minutes"},{"fact":"Of all the restaurants that are opened, 90% of them fail in the first year. Of the remaining ones that survive, 90% of those fail in the second year"},{"fact":"The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass"},{"fact":"When a porcupine is born, its quills are soft and mostly white, but harden within hours"},{"fact":"Since 1978, at least 37 people have died as a result of shaking vending machines, in an attempt to get free merchandise. More than 100 people have been injured"},{"fact":"The first drug to be sold in the form of a tablet is Aspirin"},{"fact":"The original name for butterfly was flutterby"},{"fact":"There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body"},{"fact":"Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth"},{"fact":"Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped"},{"fact":"The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965"},{"fact":"The giant squid is the largest animal without a backbone"},{"fact":"There is enough water in American swimming pools to cover the whole city of San Francisco seven feet deep"},{"fact":"215 jeans can be made with one bale of cotton"},{"fact":"Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters"},{"fact":"Pineapples were first introduced into Europe by Christopher Columbus"},{"fact":"When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened"},{"fact":"The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand"},{"fact":"It has been medically been proven that laughter is an effective pain killer"},{"fact":"Cataloupes are named after the gardens of Cantaloupe, Italy where some belive this melon was first grown"},{"fact":"In the 13th century, quality standards for paste were assigned by the Pope"},{"fact":"In a year, the average person walks four miles to make his or her bed"},{"fact":"The first television broadcast of the Oscars took place in 1953, hosted by Bob Hope on NBC"},{"fact":"Most snakes have six rows of teeth"},{"fact":"NASDAQ stand for, \"National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations.\""},{"fact":"An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin"},{"fact":"The average American eats 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime"},{"fact":"The greatest snowfall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959."},{"fact":"French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon"},{"fact":"The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971"},{"fact":"The city of Chicago has the only post office in the world where you can drive your car through"},{"fact":"The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later"},{"fact":"The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water"},{"fact":"There are about 34,000 species of spiders"},{"fact":"In 1968, Abbie Hoffman played with a yo-yo while testifying before a congressional committee. He was found in contempt"},{"fact":"The biggest candy eaters are the Dutch, who average 65 pounds of candy per person in a year"},{"fact":"55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year"},{"fact":"The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer"},{"fact":"American President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) used to like Vaseline being rubbed on his head while he ate breakfast in bed"},{"fact":"No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple"},{"fact":"There was a 19th century Native American tribal chief who went under the name, \"Not Able to Fornicate.\""},{"fact":"98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska"},{"fact":"In 1657, the first chocolate house was opened in London, England"},{"fact":"The Xerox company was initially called the Haloid Company"},{"fact":"On average, Americans spend 33% of their life sleeping"},{"fact":"One out of every five births in the United States are delivered by Cesarean section"},{"fact":"In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die"},{"fact":"Studies indicate that surgeons who listen to music while they operate improve in their performance"},{"fact":"Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark"},{"fact":"Thailand used to be called Siam"},{"fact":"A sneeze can travel as fast as one hundred miles per hour"},{"fact":"The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941"},{"fact":"Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years"},{"fact":"In the 19th century, it was common practice for a Japanese woman to dye their teeth black. They believed that this enhanced sex appeal and maintained healthier teeth"},{"fact":"The revolving door was invented in 1888, by Theophilus Van Kannel."},{"fact":"The Lion King is the top grossing Disney movie of all-time with domestic gross intake of $312 million"},{"fact":"The state that grows the most cranberries is Wisconsin. More than 300 million pounds of cranberries are grown in Wisconsin"},{"fact":"The smallest frog is the \"Brazilian baby frog\", which is smaller than a dime"},{"fact":"The idea of Christmas cards was invented by Englishman Henry Cole in 1843"},{"fact":"Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes"},{"fact":"A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born"},{"fact":"Britons eat over 22,000 tonnes of french fries a week"},{"fact":"People from the United States eat the most chicken per person than anywhere else in the world"},{"fact":"Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software"},{"fact":"The origins of the soldier term \"G.I.\" is an abbreviation for \"Government Issue,\" which was stamped on all government kits supplied to recruits in the US Army during World War II"},{"fact":"Watermelons are a popular gift to bring to a host in China or Japan"},{"fact":"Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs"},{"fact":"On average Americans spend 18% of their income on transportation"},{"fact":"Of all the words Dr. Seuss made up in his storybooks, only one has stuck in the English vocabulary: grinch, which is refers to a killjoy -- and it took more than 20 years"},{"fact":"Montreal has an underground city, which has over 2,000 shops and 26 kilometres of walkways. This is the largest underground network for any city"},{"fact":"The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo"},{"fact":"The word Himalayas means the \"home of snow.\""},{"fact":"A man filed a lawsuit against his doctor because he survived longer than what the doctor had predicted"},{"fact":"One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine"},{"fact":"It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids"},{"fact":"The platypus uses its bill to find animals that it feeds on. Its bill can sense the tiny electric fields that their preys emit"},{"fact":"Central Park located in New York has 125 drinking fountains"},{"fact":"The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college"},{"fact":"Washing machines use anywhere from 40 to 200 litres of water per load"},{"fact":"Australia has had stamps that actually look like gems. In 1995 and 1996 they used a special technology to make the stamps look like diamonds and opals."},{"fact":"There are only four words in the English language which end in"},{"fact":"Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards"},{"fact":"In only eight minutes, the Space Shuttle can accelerate to a speed of 27,000 kilometres per hour."},{"fact":"In a study conducted regarding toilet paper usage, Americans are said to use the most toilet paper per trip to the bathroom, which was seven sheets of toilet paper per trip"},{"fact":"German cockroaches can survive for up to one month without food and two weeks without water"},{"fact":"George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory"},{"fact":"Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash"},{"fact":"The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns"},{"fact":"The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes"},{"fact":"Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds"},{"fact":"The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes"},{"fact":"British scientists have found evidence that heart attacks increase significantly for people who watch soccer penalty shoot-outs"},{"fact":"Fine-grained volcanic ash can be found as an ingredient in some toothpaste"},{"fact":"The most disliked vegetable by Americans is Brussels sprouts"},{"fact":"The first ice hotel was built in Swedish Lapland"},{"fact":"A myrmecologist studies ants"},{"fact":"Rice is thrown at weddings as a symbol of fertility"},{"fact":"More than 90% of shark attack victims survive"},{"fact":"The average temperature on Earth is 15 degrees celcius."},{"fact":"To produce a dozen eggs, a hen has to eat about four pounds of feed"},{"fact":"Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets"},{"fact":"When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like \"Coca-Cola\" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was \"Bite the wax tadpole\". It did not sell well"},{"fact":"In the United States, 80% of households have oatmeal in their kitchen"},{"fact":"A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second"},{"fact":"In 1825, the first toilet was installed in the White House"},{"fact":"Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit"},{"fact":"Every year, 50,000,000 automobiles are produced in the world."},{"fact":"Pikeville, Kentucky consumes the most Pepsi per capita then any other American city"},{"fact":"After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study"},{"fact":"Cubic Zirconia is 55% heavier than real diamonds."},{"fact":"The fastest speed a raindrop had reached when falling is seven miles per hour."},{"fact":"Battle Creek, Michigan is referred to as the \"Cereal Bowl of America.\" The city produces the most breakfast cereals than any other city in the world"},{"fact":"The stringy thing that is seen in egg whites is called \"chalazae.\""},{"fact":"The city of Argentia which is located on Newfoundland's southwest coast, is Canada's most fog-bound community. It has 206 days of fog each year."},{"fact":"Seven percent of a humans body wieght is made up of blood"},{"fact":"Most snails are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both female and male reproductive organs"},{"fact":"Dogs can be trained to detect an upcoming epileptic seizure"},{"fact":"American women, on average, spend 55 minutes per day getting showered, dressed, and groomed"},{"fact":"Germany produces more than 5,000 varieties of beer and has about 1,300 breweries in country"},{"fact":"In some parts of the Atacama Desert it has never rained"},{"fact":"In 1681, the last dodo bird died"},{"fact":"Strawberries are a member of the rose family"},{"fact":"It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese"},{"fact":"The most popular recipient of Valentine cards are school teachers"},{"fact":"The average stay for a prisoner on Alcatraz, when it was used as a prison, was five years"},{"fact":"Mickey Mouse is known as \"Topolino\" in Italy"},{"fact":"Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific"},{"fact":"About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light"},{"fact":"In Japan, tipping at restaurants is not a norm. However, some restaurants might add a 5 - 10 % service charge to the bill"},{"fact":"The first automobile racetrack in America was the 'Indianapolis Motor Speedway,' which had 3 million cobblestones."},{"fact":"A cow has four compartments in its stomach"},{"fact":"The most popular place to burn candles in the house is the living room"},{"fact":"In Japan, by the time man reaches the age of 60, he is commemorated with a special ceremony. This ceremony features the man wearing a red kimono, which denotes that he no longer has the responsibilities of being a mature adult"},{"fact":"Men are four times more likely to be struck by lightning than women"},{"fact":"The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones"},{"fact":"In 1845, inventor Thomas Adams started the world's first chewing gum factory."},{"fact":"In 1693, the postage rate of a letter was determined by how much light went through the letter. The less the light went through the letter the more expensive the rate would be. This technique was referred to as candling"},{"fact":"Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away"},{"fact":"Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails"},{"fact":"Polar bears have been known to swim more than 60 miles without resting"},{"fact":"Before 1883, the three-cent U.S. stamp was also used for advertising. The advertisment was located on the back of the stamp for various products"},{"fact":"The largest ketchup bottle in the world is a 170 feet tall and is located in Collinsville, Illinois, USA. It was built in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company as a water tower"},{"fact":"Bo Jackson set a Monday Night Football record by rushing for 222 yards in one game against the Seattle Seahawks, including a 91-yard TD run"},{"fact":"There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world"},{"fact":"The fins of the Spiny Dogfish Shark are sometimes used as sandpaper for wood products"},{"fact":"The Super Bowl is so popular that it is the number on at-home party event of the year"},{"fact":"There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce"},{"fact":"The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas"},{"fact":"It is possible to get high by licking a toad. The Cane Toad produces a toxin called bufotenine to ward off predators. When licked, this toxin acts as a hallucinogen"},{"fact":"Stinging insects kills approximately 25 people annually in the U.S"},{"fact":"The first commercial microwave oven was called the \"1161 Radarange\" and was the size of a refrigerator"},{"fact":"Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excesseive use of alcohol"},{"fact":"A common name for pincurls is also spitcurls because woman sometimes wet their hair with their saliva before curling it"},{"fact":"The first hot air balloon flight traveled for 5.5 miles over Paris and lasted for 23 minutes"},{"fact":"Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands"},{"fact":"Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan once wore a Nazi uniform while acting in a film during his Hollywood days. The name of the movie was \"Desperate Journey,\" which was filmed in 1942"},{"fact":"The town of Olney, Illinois celebrates a \"Squirrel Day\" festival to honour the 200 albino squirrels that live in the town. The festival includes a squirrel blessing by a priest"},{"fact":"In the United States there are about three million honey producing colonies"},{"fact":"Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours"},{"fact":"January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time"},{"fact":"Pepper was sold as individual grains during the Elizabethan times. The guards at the London docks had to sew up their pockets so they would not steal any of the pepper"},{"fact":"On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months"},{"fact":"Shakespeare invented the word \"assassination\" and \"bump.\""},{"fact":"A diet high in fat is said to impede memory"},{"fact":"There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half-caused cancer in rats"},{"fact":"Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars."},{"fact":"Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people"},{"fact":"The heart of an adult giraffe weighs on average 26 pounds"},{"fact":"Two million red blood cells die every second"},{"fact":"The first American astronaut in space was Alan B. Shepard Jr"},{"fact":"The world record for donut eating is held by John Haight, who ate 29 donuts (52 ounces) in a little over six minutes"},{"fact":"Hundreds of years ago, only the wealthy people used to wear underwear"},{"fact":"Buffalo wings, got their name because the spicy chicken wings originated in Buffalo, New York"},{"fact":"The board game Scrabble was originally called \"Criss Cross Words\" by inventor Alfred Butts"},{"fact":"Men are more likely to be colorblind than women. About one of out of 12 men are colorblind"},{"fact":"Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio in 1933. The first men to use FM radio to communicate with Earth from the moon's surface were named Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong."},{"fact":"The MGM lion, whose name was Leo, lived in Memphis until his death"},{"fact":"The Bible was written by over 40 authors over a period of 1500 years"},{"fact":"The range of a medieval long-bow is 220 yards"},{"fact":"Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights"},{"fact":"African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away"},{"fact":"Many of the stars that were in the Poltergeist Trilogy had strange deaths"},{"fact":"The sap of a banana plant leaves serious stains on hands and clothes that is extremely hard to remove"},{"fact":"In Ireland, a prime minister is a called a Taoiseach"},{"fact":"American President John Tyler had 15 children"},{"fact":"Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses"},{"fact":"People in France own more pets in the world per person than any other country"},{"fact":"In a five card poker game there are 2,598,960 possible hands"},{"fact":"The most common pear world-wide is the Bartlett. It is bell-shaped, sweet and soft with a light green colour"},{"fact":"All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20"},{"fact":"The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes"},{"fact":"Eighty percent of the Vanilla Beans which are used to make ice cream is grown in Madagascar"},{"fact":"Annually, British people eat more than 15 pounds of beans"},{"fact":"The largest known hailstone to have fallen was in Germany in 1925, which weighed close to four and a half pounds."},{"fact":"The Kraft company produces enough Cool Whip, a brand of whipping cream, in one year to fill the entire Grand Canyon"},{"fact":"Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China"},{"fact":"A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt"},{"fact":"Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth"},{"fact":"95% of the entire lemon crop produced in the U.S. is from California and Arizona"},{"fact":"There are more than 3000 documented caves located in the state of Tennessee"},{"fact":"Soy crayons have been invented to replace wax crayons and one acre of soybeans can produce over 80,000 crayons"},{"fact":"People drank gold powder mixed in with water in medieval Europe to relieve pain from sore limbs"},{"fact":"Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game"},{"fact":"Twit is the name given for a pregnant goldfish"},{"fact":"A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing"},{"fact":"In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him"},{"fact":"There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa"},{"fact":"The most popular American city for Kool-Aid sales is St. Louis, Missouri"},{"fact":"A human embryo is smaller than a grain of rice at four weeks old"},{"fact":"In 1923, the first neon sign was introduced in the U.S. Two neon signs were sold to a Packard car dealership for $24,000 which read, \"Packard.\""},{"fact":"Silk was developed in China were it was kept a secret for more than two thousands years. Anyone found trying to smuggle silkworm eggs or cocoons out of the country was immediately put to death"},{"fact":"Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since"},{"fact":"Sir John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I, was the inventor of the toilet"},{"fact":"The Popsicle was invented by 11 year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left his drink outside with a stir stick in it and he noticed that it had frozen. He applied for a patent in 1923 and named it \"Epsicle.\" The name was later changed to Popsicle"},{"fact":"In the U.S., approximately 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from restaurants or other food outlets"},{"fact":"An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards"},{"fact":"The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado"},{"fact":"There are only four words in the English language which end in\"-dous\": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous"},{"fact":"One pound of maple syrup can make eight pounds of candy or sugar"},{"fact":"Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side"},{"fact":"The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume"},{"fact":"Approximately 71% of American chocolate eaters prefer to eat milk chocolate"},{"fact":"A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey"},{"fact":"Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks"},{"fact":"An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet"},{"fact":"In Czechoslovakia, there is a church that has a chandelier made out of human bones"},{"fact":"The first fruit eaten on the moon was a peach"},{"fact":"The name \"Lego\" came from the Danish word LEg Godt, which means \"play well.\""},{"fact":"Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed"},{"fact":"In 1998, Ten Speed Press publishing company published a book, \"The Eat A Bug Cookbook\" by David George Gordon that contains over 33 bug recipes"},{"fact":"Twelve men have landed on and explored the moon"},{"fact":"The football team Green Bay Packers comes from a meat packing company called Acme Packing"},{"fact":"Unlike a frog a toad cannot jump"},{"fact":"The average weight of a newborn baby is 7 lbs. 6 oz. For a triplet baby it is 3 lbs. 12 oz"},{"fact":"Baseball was the first sport to be pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated"},{"fact":"A group of tigers is called a streak"},{"fact":"Hippos drink as much as 250 litres of water in any given 24 hour period"},{"fact":"850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter"},{"fact":"The Beatles have sold more records than anyone else with over a billion worldwide"},{"fact":"After the \"Popeye\" comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States"},{"fact":"The largest type of penguin is the Emperor Penguin which can stand to be almost 3.5 feet tall and weigh more than 90 pounds"},{"fact":"Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal"},{"fact":"7-Eleven was the first convenience store to have television advertising. The animated commercial ran in 1949 and had a singing rooster and owl"},{"fact":"A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute"},{"fact":"On average men spend 51 minutes a day grooming themselves"},{"fact":"Sharks are so powerful that their bite can generate a force of up to 18 tons per square inch"},{"fact":"The designated instrument for the city of Detroit is the accordion"},{"fact":"Percentage of Americans who have visited Disneyland/Disney World: 70%"},{"fact":"Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise"},{"fact":"A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon"},{"fact":"On average, Americans spend $1300 on utility bills annually"},{"fact":"The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house"},{"fact":"There are approximately 2,700 different species of mosquitoes"},{"fact":"Colonel Sanders original white suit was auctioned off for $80,000 in February 2002"},{"fact":"EPCOT stands for \"Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow.\""},{"fact":"The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed"},{"fact":"Over 170,000 Indians from 210 tribes live in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest"},{"fact":"Cashew nuts contain oil in the shell that is very irritating to the skin"},{"fact":"A caterpillar grows roughly 27,000 times its size when it first emerges as an egg"},{"fact":"Lightning strikes the Empire States Building about seven times a year"},{"fact":"Snake venom is ninety percent protein"},{"fact":"More than three thousand people work on research in Antarctica each year"},{"fact":"The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames"},{"fact":"Scientists have discovered a way to make biodegradable plastic from plants by using genetic engineering."},{"fact":"The Earth orbits the Sun at a speed of about 108,000 km per hour"},{"fact":"In 1897, Bayer, who is the makers of Aspirin, once marketed the drug heroin"},{"fact":"In Australia, a common \"Boxing day\" activity is surfing"},{"fact":"In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers who had to chase him around the track were not amused when they caught and arrested him"},{"fact":"Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars"},{"fact":"The two top toys in 1950 were Silly Putty which sold for $1, and Crayola crayons which sold for 50 cents"},{"fact":"The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults"},{"fact":"Earl Dean developed the bottle design for Coca-Cola"},{"fact":"The word \"super\" to a beekeeper refers to the hive box where the honey is stored"},{"fact":"Only 23% of New Zealand families have more than two children"},{"fact":"Deliberately infecting people with malaria has been used to cure different viral infections. The high fever will strengthen the immune system and fight the virus. In recent times this has been considered as a treatment to HIV"},{"fact":"By partially filling saucers with vinegar and distributing the saucers around a room, you can eliminate odors"},{"fact":"The only animals that are capable of turning their heads 180 degrees are from the genus Galago, such as the Tarsier"},{"fact":"In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998"},{"fact":"The average number of pillowcases washed a day at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas is 15,000"},{"fact":"Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath"},{"fact":"There are 158 verses in the Greek National Anthem"},{"fact":"A regulation baseball has exactly 108 stitches"},{"fact":"In a study that was done by the University of Chicago in 1907, it was concluded that the easiest color to spot is yellow. This is why John Hertz, who is the founder of the Yellow Cab Company picked cabs to be yellow"},{"fact":"On average it takes a shark seven days to replace a tooth"},{"fact":"The biggest religious building in the world is a Hindu Temple, Angkor Wat, located in Cambodia. It was built at the end of the 11th century"},{"fact":"In Britain, there are approximately 50,000 pubs with 17,000 different names"},{"fact":"Snails eat with a rasping mouth called a \"radula,\" which has thousands of teeth"},{"fact":"A dragonfly has a lifespan of for to seven weeks"},{"fact":"Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears"},{"fact":"The majority of American models are skinnier than 98% of American women"},{"fact":"The first jigsaw puzzle was created by map maker John Splisbury who mounted one of his maps on a sheet of hardwood. He proceeded to cut around the borders of each country use a fine saw"},{"fact":"Owen Falls Lake is the largest man-made lake in the world"},{"fact":"The patent number of the telephone is 174465."},{"fact":"On average, 81% of Americans 16 years of age and older watch television at least once in a day"},{"fact":"If a raisin is dropped into a glass of champagne it will bounce up and down in the glass"},{"fact":"Reptiles do not perspire, and do not have any oil glands"},{"fact":"Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all"},{"fact":"There is a doggy disco held in Italy every year where owners can dance with their dogs"},{"fact":"The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189"},{"fact":"In ancient Egypt, the dung beetle symbolized eternal rebirth and the Sun God Khepri"},{"fact":"If a cockroach breaks a leg it can grow another one"},{"fact":"Budweiser beer is named after a town in Czechoslovakia"},{"fact":"Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate"},{"fact":"Actress Debra Winger helped to perform the voice of E.T. in the movie ?E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982).\""},{"fact":"The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letteris uncopyrightable."},{"fact":"All penguins live south of the equator"},{"fact":"There are more than 640 muscles in the human body"},{"fact":"Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density"},{"fact":"Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world"},{"fact":"The Ice Cream cone was invented in the summer of 1904 by Charles Menches. It made its debut one year later at the St. Louis World Fair"},{"fact":"The rhinoceros beetle can carry up to 850 times its weight on its back. This is equivalent to a person carrying over 50 mini-vans on their back"},{"fact":"The game rugby was originated at Rugby school located in England in 1823. This happened when William Webb Ellis, while playing soccer, picked the ball up in his hands and started running with it"},{"fact":"The first episode of the popular television sitcom Happy Days was titled \"All The Way.\""},{"fact":"Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack"},{"fact":"When the body is resting, it takes in about 10 litres of air every minute"},{"fact":"The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, which is located in the ear"},{"fact":"George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration"},{"fact":"There have been over fifty million Mr. Potato Heads sold since it came out in 1952"},{"fact":"All of Chrysler's PT Cruisers are built in Mexico."},{"fact":"Movies approximately make five times more from video sales than ticket sales"},{"fact":"There has only been 193,000 metric tonnes of gold discovered to date."},{"fact":"The word Lethologica describes the state of not remembering the word you want to say"},{"fact":"In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet"},{"fact":"In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere"},{"fact":"Baby donkeys or baby mules are also known as \"Foals.\""},{"fact":"When Sony introduced the walkman, it had a variety of different names in different countries. It was called \"Soundabout\" in the U.S., \"Stowaway\" in the U.K., and \"Freestyle\" in Australia"},{"fact":"In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday"},{"fact":"The first toilet ever seen on television was on \"Leave It To Beaver\""},{"fact":"Author Dr. Seuss wrote the book \"Green Eggs and Ham\" because the editor made him a bet that he could not write a book, which contained less than fifty words"},{"fact":"Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex"},{"fact":"The tallest mammal in the world is the giraffe"},{"fact":"Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania"},{"fact":"The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red"},{"fact":"The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet"},{"fact":"In ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a girl was a way to propose for marriage.. If the girl caught it, that would mean she accepts"},{"fact":"Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity"},{"fact":"In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind"},{"fact":"Australian Graham Barker extracted his own belly button fluff every day for 18 years acquiring a record-breaking amount of fluff. He hopes to accumulate enough fluff to stuff a pillow"},{"fact":"Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies"},{"fact":"Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking"},{"fact":"In Ancient Egypt, cats were often buried with their masters, or in a special cemetary for cats"},{"fact":"In Ontario, an average household income of a golfer is greater than $60,000"},{"fact":"The Danish company Lego, which began in 1932, first manufactured ironing boards, and stepladders"},{"fact":"Mice will nurse babies that are not their own"},{"fact":"Saturday is the most popular day for people to eat out in the United States"},{"fact":"Singer Alice Cooper once had a live chicken thrown at him during a concert in Toronto. He threw the chicken back at the crowd and all the publicity surrounding the incident skyrocketed his singing career"},{"fact":"Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in cosmetic procedures in the United States"},{"fact":"Elmer Smith was the first player to hit a grand slam in a World Series"},{"fact":"Ancient Egyptians used the spice Thyme to help preserve mummies"},{"fact":"On average, an American family sends and receives 28 Christmas cards each year"},{"fact":"In Belgium, 94% of children under the age of fourteen own LEGO products"},{"fact":"In ancient Rome, lead poisoning was a prevalent disease amongst the wealthy because of their extensive use of lead. Many Roman women died because of lead poisoning caused by the use of make-up that contained lead"},{"fact":"The famous jewelry store Tiffany & Co. was established on September 18, 1837 in New York City. The amount of sales that were made the first day were $4.98"},{"fact":"Depending on the size, it can take an oyster anywhere from few months to many years to form a pearl"},{"fact":"In one minute, the heart of a giraffe can pump 160 gallons of blood"},{"fact":"Each day Americans 15 and over spend an average of 55 minutes of driving"},{"fact":"Storks were a symbol of fertility in Europe and were considered to bring good luck"},{"fact":"The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs"},{"fact":"The parents of Albert Einstein were worried that he was mentally slow because it took him a long time to learn how to speak"},{"fact":"A honey bee has four wings"},{"fact":"Badminton originates from a sport in India called \"poona.\""},{"fact":"In October 1973, Swedish sweet maker Roland Ohisson of Falkenberg was buried in a coffin made of nothing but chocolate"},{"fact":"More than 100 professional cyclists participate in the Tour de France every year and the race is over 3,200 kilometers"},{"fact":"In the United States, turkeys are mostly raised in California"},{"fact":"The only state to grow pineapples is Hawaii"},{"fact":"There are more than 50 different types of pumpkins. Some of them have names such as Munchkin, Funny Face, and Spooktacular"},{"fact":"In order to mate, a male deep sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will never let go and will eventually merge his body into the female and spend the rest of his life inside the female mate. The males internal organs will disappear apart from the testes that are needed to for breeding"},{"fact":"Tacoma Narrows Bridge which was located in Washington was nicknamed \"Galloping Gertie\" because of the unusual way it twisted and swayed with even with the slightest winds when people would drive on it. The bridge collapsed on November 7, 1940, fortunately no humans died, except for a dog"},{"fact":"At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking"},{"fact":"On September 7, 1997, the first flight of the F-22a occurred."},{"fact":"There are five years in a quinquennium"},{"fact":"The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks"},{"fact":"Eating 11 pounds of apples will make you gain one pound of weight"},{"fact":"Slugs have 4 noses"},{"fact":"The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea"},{"fact":"Singer Billy Joel tried to commit suicide when he was 21 by drinking furniture polish"},{"fact":"The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length"},{"fact":"The fastest bird in the world is the Peregrine Falcon, which can reach speeds in excess of two hundred miles per hour"},{"fact":"The world camel population is close to 19 million"},{"fact":"The word \"Denim\" comes from the French phrase \"serge de Nimes\" which is a fabric made in a town located in southern France"},{"fact":"February 17th, 1930, was the first flight by a cow in an airplane. The milk that was produced by the cow during the flight was put into containers and parachuted over the city of St. Louis"},{"fact":"The most popular gift that teachers receive in the United States from their students is chocolate"},{"fact":"The Bible has been translated into Klingon"},{"fact":"Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating arealready married."},{"fact":"Stewardesses is one of the longest words typed with only the left hand"},{"fact":"If a lobster loses an eye or a claw it can usually grow a new one"},{"fact":"The name for the sign \"&\" which represents the world \"and\" is ampersand"},{"fact":"The Eiffel Tower weight is approximately 9441 tons"},{"fact":"The first translation of the Bible into English was in 1382 A.D., by John Wycliff"},{"fact":"The meaning of Siberia is \"sleeping land.\""},{"fact":"Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste"},{"fact":"Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist"},{"fact":"Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of 1000 and a size 108.7 acres"},{"fact":"Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds"},{"fact":"An elephant cannot jump"},{"fact":"Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed"},{"fact":"The reason why the Mexican sombrero hat is so wide is to provide shade for the entire body"},{"fact":"Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959"},{"fact":"According to research, the most productive workday is Tuesday and the least productive is Friday"},{"fact":"The makers of Crayola produce over 2 billion crayons in a year"},{"fact":"The human face is made up of 14 bones"},{"fact":"Mangos are valued for their reputation as an aphrodisiac in countries such as Guatemala and India"},{"fact":"There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand"},{"fact":"The coconut is the largest seed in the world"},{"fact":"Basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain holds 56 NBA records"},{"fact":"In 1990, the largest watermelon ever grown was 262 pounds, by Bill Carson of Tennesse, USA"},{"fact":"Some toothpastes contain antifreeze"},{"fact":"During the Gold Rush in 1849, some people paid as much as $100 for a simple glass of water"},{"fact":"The only English place that has a name that ends with an exclamation mark is \"Westward Ho!\""},{"fact":"In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a huntinglicense."},{"fact":"There are at least six universal facial expressions. They are: happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, anger and surprise"},{"fact":"In the movie \"The Exorcist\" the vomit that (Regan) Linda Blair hurls at Father Damien Karras is thick pea soup"},{"fact":"The Library of Congress, located in Washington D.C., is the largest library in the world"},{"fact":"There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection"},{"fact":"The Sea of Tranquility on the moon is deeper than the highest mountain on Earth"},{"fact":"The most popular vacation destinations for Americans in 1956 was Niagara Falls"},{"fact":"In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa"},{"fact":"There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun."},{"fact":"In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day"},{"fact":"\"Pomology\" is the science of growing an apple"},{"fact":"The total number of episodes for the sitcom \"I Love Lucy\" was 180"},{"fact":"The town with the most stop signs per capita than any other in the US: LaConner, Washington"},{"fact":"There is a Harley-Davidson that was designed as an exact replica of a hamburger"},{"fact":"The blue whale is the loudest animal on the earth. Its whistle can reach up to 188 decibels"},{"fact":"Five Jell-O flavors that flopped: celery, coffee, cola, apple, andchocolate."},{"fact":"Mosquitoes prefer children over adults"},{"fact":"Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks)"},{"fact":"When baby sharks are born, they swim away from their mothers right away and are on there own. In fact, their mothers might see them as prey"},{"fact":"Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans"},{"fact":"The vegetable that is eaten most by Americans is potatoes. On average, a person eats about 140 pounds of potatoes annually"},{"fact":"In the dry valleys region of Antarctica, it has not rained in 2 million years according to scientists"},{"fact":"Keeping your car tuned up is a good way to save on gas. A car that is tuned up is 9% more efficient on gasoline."},{"fact":"The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one bite can kill twenty people or one elephant"},{"fact":"There is a law in the state of Idaho that does not permit one citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that is heavier than 50 pounds"},{"fact":"The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day"},{"fact":"Another word to refer to old age is senectitude"},{"fact":"The most popular meal ordered at restaurants in the U.S. is fried chicken"},{"fact":"Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935"},{"fact":"The average human head weighs about eight pounds"},{"fact":"Fear of clowns is called coulrophobia"},{"fact":"The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night"},{"fact":"Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans"},{"fact":"Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category"},{"fact":"There is no tipping in Iceland"},{"fact":"The founder of JC Penny had the middle name of Cash"},{"fact":"Eating parsley after eating an onion can help in getting rid of onion breath"},{"fact":"Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the scientific name for the animal gorilla"},{"fact":"In the U.S. the most common excuse made to get out of paying a ticket is to say they missed the sign"},{"fact":"On average, it is estimated that females injure themselves ten time more than males do while playing sports"},{"fact":"A house cat spends 70% of its time sleeping"},{"fact":"The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair"},{"fact":"Whale eyes are the size of a grapefruit"},{"fact":"Painting a house yellow or having a yellow trim helps in selling a house faster"},{"fact":"On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, from the Louvre Museum. It was recovered two years later"},{"fact":"The Great Wall stretches for about 4,500 miles across North China"},{"fact":"Frosted Flakes mascot \"Tony the Tiger\" has a wife, son (Tony Jr.) and daughter (Antoinette) that were used in early advertising commercials"},{"fact":"The iron disulfide (Pyrite) is considered \"fool's gold\" because it looks very similar to gold."},{"fact":"Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intraveinously."},{"fact":"Smiling releases endorphins in the body, which makes people feel better"},{"fact":"A dentist from Buffalo New York named Alfred P. Southwick invented the electric chair."},{"fact":"ABBA got their name by taking the first letter from each of their names (Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Anni-frid.)"},{"fact":"The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella"},{"fact":"Grapes are grown around the world more than any other fruit"},{"fact":"The best selling game in history for coin-operated machines is Pac-Man"},{"fact":"Google receives more than 200 million search queries a day, more than half of which come from outside the United States. Peak traffic hours to google.com are between 6 a.m. and noon PST, when more than 2,000 search queries are answered a second"},{"fact":"There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin"},{"fact":"The Olympic torch weighs about 3 pounds"},{"fact":"The famous Christmas song \"Jingle Bells\" was written for a Thanksgiving program in 1857 by James Pierpont. At the time, the song was called \"The One-Horse Open Sleigh.\""},{"fact":"The average bank teller loses about $250 every year"},{"fact":"Initially golf balls were made out of wood. After that they were made out of leather which was stuffed with feathers"},{"fact":"Russian I.M. Chisov survived a 21,980 plunge out of a plane with no parachute. He landed on the steep side of a snow-covered mountain with only a fractured pelvis and slight concussion"},{"fact":"About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money"},{"fact":"The oldest actor to win a Best Actor Oscar is Henry Fonda. He was 76 when he won it"},{"fact":"Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers"},{"fact":"The first lighthouse built in the USA was in Boston, MA in 1716"},{"fact":"The Snickers chocolate bar was invented in 1930"},{"fact":"When Nylons first went on sale in the United States in 1940, four million pairs were sold in only a few days"},{"fact":"On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving"},{"fact":"Oprah Winfrey was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in Nashville at WTVF-TV"},{"fact":"Ever year, Americans spend close to $25 billion on beer"},{"fact":"In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer"},{"fact":"The smallest stamp in the world was issued in 1863 by the Columbian state of Bolivar and measured 9.5 x 8mm"},{"fact":"There are over 1,800 known species of fleas"},{"fact":"Ivory soap slogan \"99-44/100% Pure\" was cleverly invented by Harley Proctor who with the help of chemists determined that Ivory soap was only 56/100 pure. Proctor simply subtracted 56 from 100 and came up with \"99-44/100% Pure\""},{"fact":"The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA"},{"fact":"Polar bears are left-handed"},{"fact":"Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6 degrees farenheit"},{"fact":"It requires 63 feet of wire to make a Slinky toy"},{"fact":"A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate"},{"fact":"Casey Kasem is the voice of Shaggy on the cartoon show \"Scooby-Doo.\" Casey Kasem, being a strict vegetarian, also requested that Shaggy follow the same diet on the show"},{"fact":"In the U.S., the milk production per dairy cow is approximately 12,000 pounds"},{"fact":"In America, 38% of doctors are Indians"},{"fact":"There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day"},{"fact":"People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing"},{"fact":"Some farmers in Japan have learned to grow their watermelons into a square shape. They did this to conserve shelf space"},{"fact":"The heaviest United States President was William Howard Taft who weighed 332 pounds"},{"fact":"Tasmania is said to have the cleanest air in the world"},{"fact":"Studies show that divorced women have more trouble starting new relationships than divorced men"},{"fact":"Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?"},{"fact":"An individual coral animal is called a polyp"},{"fact":"There are dolphins that live in the Amazon River that are the colour pink"},{"fact":"Navel oranges got their name because the bottom of this type of orange resembles a belly button or navel"},{"fact":"Tohru Iwatani, the inventor of the video game Pac-Man, came up with the idea when he saw a pizza with a slice missing at a dinner party"},{"fact":"One tree can filter up to sixty pounds of pollutants from the air each year."},{"fact":"In America, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce"},{"fact":"A chance of a woman having twins is increased after the age of 35. About 1 in 27 women will give birth to twins after this age. After 50 the chances of having twins is 1 in 9"},{"fact":"The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated"},{"fact":"The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. It was first erected as \"Hollywoodland.\""},{"fact":"During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles"},{"fact":"The first commercial chewing gum was sold in 1848 by John B. Curtis, who also made the gum. He called the gum \"State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum.\""},{"fact":"Touching and stroking a plant will aid in it growing healthy"},{"fact":"Average age of top GM executives in 1994: 49.8 years. Average age ofthe Rolling Stones: 50.6."},{"fact":"Business.com is currently the most expensive domain name sold for $7.5 million"},{"fact":"31% of employees skip lunch entirely"},{"fact":"Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications"},{"fact":"Ho-Ho-Kus, a small town in New Jersey, is the only town in the United States of America that has two dashes in its name"},{"fact":"Romans, in the third century, believed that the lemon was an antidote for all poisons"},{"fact":"During the Easter season, 600 million Marshmallow Peeps are bought my Americans. The Marshmallow Peep is the most popular Easter candy besides chocolate"},{"fact":"In the Great Fire of London in 1666, only six people were killed"},{"fact":"During World War II, the 2nd Polish Corps had a brown bear named Wojtek, who helped move boxes of ammunition during the battle of Monte Cassino"},{"fact":"In the United States, every year about 15 people die from dog bites"},{"fact":"Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.Click Here For More Details"},{"fact":"The Crayola colour flesh was changed to peach in 1962 because of the fact that people have many different skin colours"},{"fact":"\"Kemo Sabe\" means \"soggy shrub\" in Navajo"},{"fact":"7 out of 10 people believe in life after death"},{"fact":"Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them would burn their houses down - hence the expression \"to get fired.\""},{"fact":"The largest coral reef in the world is the Great Barrier Reef located in Australia. The reef is approximately 2023 kilometers long"},{"fact":"On a bottle of brandy VSOP stand for \"Very Special Old Pale.\""},{"fact":"The word \"dexterity\", to do with skill is related to the right hand. The opposite of the word \"deter\" is \"sinister\", to do with evil, it is related to the left hand"},{"fact":"Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female?s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time"},{"fact":"NASA scientists have concluded that the state of California is moving north and will collide with the state of Alaska in roughly 150 million years"},{"fact":"The best selling chocolate syrup in the world is Hershey"},{"fact":"The word Karate means, \"empty hand.\""},{"fact":"There are some types of chocolates that are actually good for the arteries and heart"},{"fact":"Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair"},{"fact":"The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour"},{"fact":"The average life expectancy of an ant is about 90 days"},{"fact":"The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns"},{"fact":"In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways"},{"fact":"The appliance that uses the most use of water in the home is the toilet"},{"fact":"The first movie to ever cost $100 million to make is Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991"},{"fact":"Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna"},{"fact":"In the first century, people used to drink goats milk to sweeten their breath"},{"fact":"The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker"},{"fact":"In the United States, ice cream is sold the most on a Sunday"},{"fact":"Over the course of one year, a coffee tree only produces about 1.5 pounds of coffee"},{"fact":"The substance that gives red wine and dark beer its color is said to have a positive effects on cholesterol and blood pressure"},{"fact":"Tripolini pasta was named for the Italian conquest of Tripoli in Libya"},{"fact":"The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish"},{"fact":"In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty"},{"fact":"One out of 20 people have an extra rib"},{"fact":"44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep"},{"fact":"In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money"},{"fact":"Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents"},{"fact":"In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67."},{"fact":"Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War"},{"fact":"Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining"},{"fact":"In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar"},{"fact":"The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds"},{"fact":"The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley"},{"fact":"Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system"},{"fact":"The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting"},{"fact":"The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning \"to build.\""},{"fact":"Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China"},{"fact":"The name Wendy was made up for the book \"Peter Pan.\""},{"fact":"The fur of the binturong, also known as the \"Asian Bear Cat,\" smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail"},{"fact":"In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today"},{"fact":"The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles"},{"fact":"Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison"},{"fact":"The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years"},{"fact":"NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing"},{"fact":"Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%"},{"fact":"Paul Hunn holds the record for the loudest burp, which was 118.1 decibels, which is as loud as a chainsaw"},{"fact":"A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana"},{"fact":"There are six million parts in the Boeing 747-400."},{"fact":"The first TONKA truck was made in 1947"},{"fact":"In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year"},{"fact":"Sugar Bear (the mascot for Golden Crisps cereal) was born in 1963"},{"fact":"The Tonle Sap River in Cambodia flows north for almost half the year and then south for the rest of the year"},{"fact":"Japanese research has concluded that moderate drinking can boost IQ levels"},{"fact":"For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America"},{"fact":"Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales"},{"fact":"Elizabeth Taylor has appeared on the cover of Life magazine more than anyone else"},{"fact":"The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long"},{"fact":"The word \"toy\" comes from an old English word that means \"tool.\""},{"fact":"Smokers are twice as likely to develop lower back pain than non-smokers"},{"fact":"Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone"},{"fact":"The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing \"melanin\" which gives the hair colour"},{"fact":"In 1960 there were 16,067 gambling slots in Nevada. By 1999, this number rose to 205,726 slots which would be one slot for every 10 people residing there"},{"fact":"It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivilent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit."},{"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"},{"fact":"Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour"},{"fact":"The \"naked recreation and travel\" industry has grown by 233% in the past decade"},{"fact":"The Planters Peanut Company mascot, Mr. Peanut, was created during a contest for schoolchildren in 1916"},{"fact":"Most lipstick contains fish scales"},{"fact":"The sentence \"the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" uses every letter in the english language"},{"fact":"The expression cooked \"al dente\" means \"to the tooth.\" What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender"},{"fact":"Of married couples, 70% of men and 60% of women have cheated on their spouse"},{"fact":"No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 13 times"},{"fact":"More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes"},{"fact":"The first couple to be shown on a sitcom sleeping in the same bed was \"Mary Kay and Johnny.\""},{"fact":"Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen"},{"fact":"A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine"},{"fact":"Throughout the South, peanuts were known as \"Monkey Nuts,\" and \"Goober peas,\" before the civil war"},{"fact":"Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell"},{"fact":"In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food"},{"fact":"The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia"},{"fact":"Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week"},{"fact":"Colour is not an indicator for the taste or ripeness in cranberries"},{"fact":"Each year there are approximately 20 billion coconuts produced worldwide"},{"fact":"A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs"},{"fact":"Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do"},{"fact":"There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake"},{"fact":"Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas"},{"fact":"Superman The Escape rollercoaster, located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour in only 7 seconds"},{"fact":"Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories"},{"fact":"2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States"},{"fact":"In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg. updated"},{"fact":"A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993."},{"fact":"The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat."},{"fact":"One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds"},{"fact":"Instead of a Birthday Cake, many Russian children are given a Birthday Pie"},{"fact":"The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people"},{"fact":"The word \"comet\" comes from the Greek word \"kometes\" meaning long hair and referring to the tail"},{"fact":"The average price for a major league baseball game in 2004 is $19.82"},{"fact":"The hydra, which is related to the jellyfish, can grow its body back in a couple of days if it is cut in half"},{"fact":"The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 metres"},{"fact":"Native Indians have been known to paint their doors blue, which they believe keeps the bad spirits out"},{"fact":"Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool."},{"fact":"It would take about fourteen and half million notes of currency to build a mile high stack"},{"fact":"Chinese Crested dogs can get acne"},{"fact":"It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States"},{"fact":"Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command \"go hang yourself.\""},{"fact":"The cross bow was invented by the Chinese and records of its usage goes back to as far as the Three Kingdom Period (220 a.d.-280 a.d.)."},{"fact":"It is estimated that by the end of 2000, there has been 142,600 tonnes of gold mined in the world"},{"fact":"One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples"},{"fact":"The Flintstones cartoon was the first thirty-minute cartoon to be aired during prime time"},{"fact":"The abbreviation Xmas for the word Christmas is of Greek origin. Since the word for Christ in the Greek language is Xristos, which starts with the letter \"X,\" they started putting the X in place of Christ and came up with the short form for the word Christmas"},{"fact":"Dipsomania refers to an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages"},{"fact":"China has more English speakers than the United States"},{"fact":"Pitcher Darold Knowles once pitched all seven games of one World Series"},{"fact":"In a day, kids in the U.S. that are between the ages of 2 - 8 spend 28 minutes of their time coloring"},{"fact":"The Ancient Greek women made a type of cheek blush by painting their cheeks with herbal pastes which was made out of crushed berries and seeds"},{"fact":"Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government"},{"fact":"Macadamia nuts are not sold in their shells because it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell"},{"fact":"Japan has approximately 200 volcanoes and is home to 10% of the active volcanoes in the world"},{"fact":"Before 1928, yo-yos used to be called bandalores in the United States"},{"fact":"The only South East Asian country that has never been colonized by a Western Power is Thailand"},{"fact":"In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word \"not\" out of the seventh commandment, which then read, \"Thou shalt commit adultery.\" This legendary book is now known as the \"Wicked Bible.\""},{"fact":"The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar an England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes"},{"fact":"Irish Wolfhound dogs have a short lifespan and live about 7-8 years"},{"fact":"When Queen Elizabeth I of England died she owned over 3,000 gowns"},{"fact":"Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days"},{"fact":"The nickname for a Japanese businessmen is \"Salarymen.\""},{"fact":"Emus cannot walk backwards"},{"fact":"The external tank on space shuttles is not painted. It is the only part of the shuttle that is lost after launch, so it is not necessary to worry about metal corrosion."},{"fact":"The most popular Twizzler candy flavour is strawberry"},{"fact":"Thirty percent of all bingo players are under the age of 35"},{"fact":"Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do"},{"fact":"The famous Casanova (Giacomo Casanova) was a librarian for many years before he died"},{"fact":"The only species of turtle that lives in the open ocean is the sea turtle"},{"fact":"Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system"},{"fact":"Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee"},{"fact":"Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise"},{"fact":"Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations"},{"fact":"On average, 749 pounds of paper products is used by an American individual annually"},{"fact":"The skeleton of a spider is located on the outside of the body. The name for this is exoskelton"},{"fact":"Incas used to create pots in the shape of peanuts that were highly prized"},{"fact":"The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements"},{"fact":"Over 200 varieties of watermelons are grown in the U.S"},{"fact":"The most dangerous job in the United States is that of a fisherman, followed by logging and then an airline pilot"},{"fact":"The words \"abstemioius,\" and \"facetious\" both have all the five vowels in them in order"},{"fact":"French soldiers during World War I had the nickname \"poilu\" which translates to \"hairy one.\""},{"fact":"Former U.S. President William Taft converted the White House stable into a four car garage in 1909"},{"fact":"People living on the east coast prefer creamy peanut butter, while people living on the west coast prefer chunky peanut butter"},{"fact":"Some snails live on branches in trees"},{"fact":"Tomato ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it"},{"fact":"The youngest pope was 11 years old"},{"fact":"Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world"},{"fact":"Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts"},{"fact":"The longest chapter in the Bible is Psalm 119, which is 176 verses"},{"fact":"During the First World War, cigarettes were handed out to soldiers along with their rations"},{"fact":"The longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan"},{"fact":"There are bananas called \"Red banana\" that are maroon to dark purple when ripe"},{"fact":"Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to have a Christmas tree in the White House"},{"fact":"The USA bought Alaska from Russia for 2 cents an acre"},{"fact":"Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse"},{"fact":"The length of brink of the Canadian \"Horseshoe\" Falls located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada is 2600 feet"},{"fact":"The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles"},{"fact":"The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart"},{"fact":"Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine"},{"fact":"The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe"},{"fact":"The chemical name for caffeine is 1,3,7-trimethylzantihine"},{"fact":"Corals take a long time to grow. Some corals only grow one centimeter in one year"},{"fact":"Walmart-mart sells more apparel a year than all the other competing department stores combined"},{"fact":"Canada has more inland waters and lakes than any other country in the world"},{"fact":"Ramses II, a pharaoh of Egypt died in 1225 B.C. At the time of his death, he had fathered 96 sons and 60 daughters"},{"fact":"The word \"lethologica\" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want"},{"fact":"Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide"},{"fact":"Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States"},{"fact":"The smallest man ever was Gul Mohammed (1957-1997) of India, who measured 1 feet, 10? inches"},{"fact":"500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris"},{"fact":"Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc"},{"fact":"In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries"},{"fact":"The Simpsons is the longest running prime-time animated series on television history"},{"fact":"The more a person struggles to get out of quicksand the faster they will sink. Staying still, and being calm will actually make the body float in the quicksand because the body is less dense than the quicksand is"},{"fact":"On average, a Canadian girl owns seven Barbie dolls, whereas an American girl owns eight"},{"fact":"A piece of French toast that was partially eaten by Justin Timberlake sold on eBay"},{"fact":"The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service"},{"fact":"Atari had to bury millions of unsold \"E.T.\" game cartridges in a New Mexico desert landfill in 1982"},{"fact":"The biggest disco ball in the world has a diameter of 2.41 meters and 137.89 kilograms. It also has 6,900 mirror squares on it"},{"fact":"The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses"},{"fact":"An average city dog lives approximately three years longer than an average country dog"},{"fact":"On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States"},{"fact":"Scatologists are experts who study feces. (aka. crap, dung, dookie, dumps, feces, excrement, etc.)"},{"fact":"Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A"},{"fact":"The greatest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge, extending 64,374 km from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean"},{"fact":"Pepsi got its name from the ingredient pepsin, which is said to aid in digestion, however, it is not known"},{"fact":"The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the \"water displacing\" substance"},{"fact":"Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne"},{"fact":"Detroit, Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other city in the USA"},{"fact":"The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour"},{"fact":"Annually Americans eat 45 million turkeys at Thanksgiving"},{"fact":"Rabbits can live up to ten years"},{"fact":"The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days"},{"fact":"Over 250 million Slinky toys have been sold since its debut in 1946"},{"fact":"In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni packed his feces in cans, signed and mounted them, and then sold them as art"},{"fact":"The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and 6 chocolate chip cookies"},{"fact":"Some Chinese chopsticks contain gold as on of their materials"},{"fact":"The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million"},{"fact":"The watch was invented by Peter Henlein of Nuremberg in 1510."},{"fact":"In North America there are approximately 618 roller coasters"},{"fact":"The concept of Boxing Day, which is on December 26th, was to give boxes of food and clothing to the poor. It is now viewed in some countries as a time to get merchandise from stores at reduced prices"},{"fact":"Crayola is a French word that means \"Oily chalk.\""},{"fact":"Every year, Burger King restaurants prepare over 950,000 pounds of bacon for their breakfast customers"},{"fact":"Isaac Newton used to be a member of parliament"},{"fact":"Dumbest Dog: Afghan hound"},{"fact":"At just four years old Mozart was able to learn a piece of music in half an hour"},{"fact":"It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did."},{"fact":"The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal"},{"fact":"There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year"},{"fact":"Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world"},{"fact":"In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs"},{"fact":"The word \"moose\" comes from the native Algonquian Indian word meaning \"twig eater.\""},{"fact":"All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill"},{"fact":"An armadillo can walk under water"},{"fact":"There are over one hundred billion galaxies with each galaxy having billions of stars"},{"fact":"The Uape Indians, who live in the Amazon, mix the ashes of their recently cremated relatives with alcohol, then all members of the family drink the mix with fond memories of the deceased"},{"fact":"The word \"diamond\" comes from the Greek word \"adamas,\" which means \"unconquerable.\""},{"fact":"On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day"},{"fact":"For the movie \"Tootsie\" actor Dustin Hoffman thought of the title. His mother used to call him that as a child"},{"fact":"The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia"},{"fact":"The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building"},{"fact":"The first subway system in America was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1897"},{"fact":"There are approximately 45 billion fat cells in an average adult"},{"fact":"To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed"},{"fact":"The dot that appears over the letter \"i\" is called a tittle"},{"fact":"The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments"},{"fact":"Close to 73% of girls in Bangladesh are married by age 18"},{"fact":"Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second"},{"fact":"In the summer of 1858, the smell of the sewage in the Thames River in London was so bad that the Members of Parliament had to leave from the chamber of the House of Commons. This was a result of two million people dumping all their sewage into the river"},{"fact":"One out of five people that eat ice cream binge on ice cream in the middle of the night. The person is usually between 18 - 24 years old"},{"fact":"The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark"},{"fact":"There is a dog museum in St. Louis, Missouri"},{"fact":"The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that it breaks the sound barrier. The crack of the whip is actually a tiny sonic boom."},{"fact":"There is a city called Smackover located in Arkansas"},{"fact":"An average person laughs about 15 times a day"},{"fact":"The labels for Crayola crayons come in 18 different colors"},{"fact":"The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit"},{"fact":"In Spain, it is common to pour chocolate milk or cafe au lait on cereal for breakfast"},{"fact":"Over 50% of the wedding in the U.S. occur in the afternoon"},{"fact":"Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers"},{"fact":"Eating dandelions can make you urinate more"},{"fact":"Enough paper is recycled in the USA every day, that a 15 mile long train of boxcars could be filled up with paper."},{"fact":"The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair"},{"fact":"At the White House, president John Adams was said to be the first to display fireworks there"},{"fact":"About 10% of the 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the USA every year are classified as severe."},{"fact":"Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven"},{"fact":"A baseball will go farther in hot temperature than in cold temperature"},{"fact":"A rabbit is not able to vomit"},{"fact":"The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose"},{"fact":"Niagara Falls actually stopped flowing back in 1848 for about 20 hours because there was ice that was blocking the Niagara River"},{"fact":"The world's first underground was the London Underground in1863. It has 275 stations and 253 miles of track."},{"fact":"The first American president to deliver a speech over the radio was Warren G. Harding"},{"fact":"There are more than 40 million Americans that have \"chronic halitosis,\" which is bad breath that never goes away"},{"fact":"The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours"},{"fact":"Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph"},{"fact":"The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in"},{"fact":"The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark"},{"fact":"One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world"},{"fact":"Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA"},{"fact":"The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth"},{"fact":"The Great White Shark can grow to be more than twenty feet long and can weigh approximately 4,000 pounds"},{"fact":"In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened"},{"fact":"The only popcorn museum in the world is lcoated in Marion, Ohio, USA"},{"fact":"Any animal that has skin hair or fur can get dandruff, but in animals it is called \"dander.\""},{"fact":"The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons"},{"fact":"In 1819, the USA purchased Florida from Spain for the cancellation of a $5 million debt"},{"fact":"In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times"},{"fact":"Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy"},{"fact":"Skippy Peanut Butter is sold more in the world than any other peanut butter"},{"fact":"The highest bridge in the world is located in the Himalyan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army, in 1982, and is about 5,600 metres above sea level"},{"fact":"In 1893, the first mosque in the United States was built"},{"fact":"Apples are part of the rose family"},{"fact":"Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer"},{"fact":"Mr. Butts invented the game SCRABBLE. The game was originally called \"Criss Cross Words.\""},{"fact":"Actress Meryl Streep holds the record for the most Oscar nominated actress, with a record of 13 nominations"},{"fact":"In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper"},{"fact":"Enamel is hardest substance in the human body"},{"fact":"A leech has 32 brains"},{"fact":"Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory."},{"fact":"In the late 1800's, washing machines and butter churners were sometimes powered by dogs walking on treadmills."},{"fact":"In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British"},{"fact":"Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors"},{"fact":"Clarence Crane the inventor of \"Crane's Peppermint Life Savers\" sold his rights to the popular candy for less than three thousand dollars."},{"fact":"Namco, who are the manufacturers of Pac Man the video game, has estimated that the original arcade game has been played over 10 billion times by individuals"},{"fact":"In Ivrea, Italy, thousands of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges at one another"},{"fact":"The sloth moves so slowly that green algae grows in the grooves of their hair"},{"fact":"In the world, the United States and France have the most pet dogs. Approximately one out of every three families has a pet dog. Switzerland and Germany are the lowest only having one dog per every ten families"},{"fact":"There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females"},{"fact":"Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food"},{"fact":"Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes"},{"fact":"The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross"},{"fact":"In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions"},{"fact":"The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese."},{"fact":"The colour blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones"},{"fact":"Over 20 million BluBlocker sunglasses have been sold since its debut in 1986. They now come in over 100 different styles"},{"fact":"Crabs have very small hairs on their claws and other parts of their body to help detect water currents and vibrations"},{"fact":"In 1962, the first Wal-Mart opened up in Rogers, Arkansas"},{"fact":"Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste"},{"fact":"Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery"},{"fact":"During the making of the the movie \"Fight Club,\" actor Brad Pitt chipped his tooth. However, he did not get his tooth capped until after the movie was done filming as he thought it would look better chipped for his character"},{"fact":"Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted peoplewithout killing them used to burn their houses down - hence theexpression \"toget fired.\""},{"fact":"In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked nose"},{"fact":"The word \"checkmate\" in chess comes from the Persian phrase \"Shah-Mat,\" which means the king is dead"},{"fact":"If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee"},{"fact":"A common drink for Tibetans is Butter Tea which is made out of butter, salt, and brick tea"},{"fact":"Bourbon was first made by a Baptist minsister from Bourbon County in Kentucky in 1789. That is where it got its name"},{"fact":"The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites"},{"fact":"McDonald restaurants serve food and drink to an amazing 43 million customers on a daily basis"},{"fact":"The game Monopoly was once very popular in Cuba; however, Fidel Castro ordered that all games be destroyed"},{"fact":"Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout"},{"fact":"During the era of Louis XIV, women used lemons to redden their lips"},{"fact":"70% of the poor people in the world are female"},{"fact":"The thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feet"},{"fact":"The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily"},{"fact":"The biggest pumpkin the world weighs 1,337.6 pounds"},{"fact":"The highest consumption of Pizza occurs during Super Bowl week"},{"fact":"During World War II, condoms were used to cover rifle barrels from being damaged by salt water as the soldiers swam to shore"},{"fact":"Approximately 55% of movies released are Rated R"},{"fact":"The Roman emperor Domitian took great pleasure in being secluded in his room for hours and catching flies and stabbing them with pens"},{"fact":"Tarantulas can live up to 30 years"},{"fact":"On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs"},{"fact":"More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles"},{"fact":"One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons"},{"fact":"The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases"},{"fact":"The Saguaro Cactus, found in South-western United States does not grow branches until it is 75 years old."},{"fact":"In Belgium, 172,000 tons of chocolate are produced in a year"},{"fact":"The word Nike comes from Greek Mythology. Nike is the goddess of victory and was often depicted as a small winged figure whom the goddess Athene carried"},{"fact":"The biggest bug in the world is the Goliath Beetle which can weigh up to 3.5 ounces and be 4.5 inches long"},{"fact":"Leaving the water running while brushing your teeth can waste four gallons of water in a minute"},{"fact":"Steve Fletcher holds the record for the largest gum wrapper collection. His collection has 5300 gum wrappers from all across the world"},{"fact":"There was once a country called Prussia. After World War II, it was divided among Poland, Germany, and the USSR"},{"fact":"The word Spain means \"the land of rabbits.\""},{"fact":"In 1936, the first practical helicopter was invented. It was the German Focke-Wulf Fw 61."},{"fact":"The word tulip comes from the Turkish word for turban"},{"fact":"Psychokinesis refers to the ability of moving objects through psychic power"},{"fact":"The fat that comes from sheep, which is called tallow, can also be used to produce soap and candles"},{"fact":"In Britain, one out of every four potatoes is eaten in the form of french fries"},{"fact":"In the movie Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock, chocolate syrup was used for blood in the shower scene"},{"fact":"The movie \"Chicken Run\" made in 2,000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie"},{"fact":"During WWII, because a lot of players were called to duty, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become The Steagles"},{"fact":"The titan arum flower is the largest flower in the world and gives off a horrible odor that smells like rotting flesh when it blooms"},{"fact":"Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot"},{"fact":"When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born"},{"fact":"The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe"},{"fact":"The average American kid will eat approximately 1.500 peanut butter sandwiches by high school graduation"},{"fact":"Goats do not have upper front teeth"},{"fact":"It has been suggested that shepherds are responsible for inventing the game golf. It is said that they used to use their staffs to hit the stones"},{"fact":"There are about 6,800 languages in the world"},{"fact":"Studies have shown that by putting on slow background music it can make a person eat food at a slower rate"},{"fact":"By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year"},{"fact":"Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%"},{"fact":"Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates"},{"fact":"On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year."},{"fact":"The name of the first menthol cigarette in the United States was \"Spud.\""},{"fact":"A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905. updated"},{"fact":"The fastest shark is the \"Shortfin Mako,\" which can swim as fast as sixty miles per hour"},{"fact":"The flatulation from domesticated cows produce about 30% of the methane on this planet"},{"fact":"Ironically, watermelons, which are 92% water, originated from the Kalahari Desert in Africa"},{"fact":"The first tattoo machine was invented by Samuel O'Reilly. He did this by using equipment that Thomas Edison used to engrave hard surfaces."},{"fact":"In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva"},{"fact":"A slug has four noses"},{"fact":"Chili Powder was invented in the 19th century in the American Southwest"},{"fact":"The sea cucumber spills its internal organs out as a defense mechanism"},{"fact":"Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000 of them contracted malaria and yellow fever"},{"fact":"Braces were first invented by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. The braces were made by a flat strip of metal, which was connected to the teeth by thread."},{"fact":"Marilyn Monroe had six toes"},{"fact":"There is a town in Texas called Ding Dong. In 1990, the population was only twenty-two people"},{"fact":"The total volume of mail that went through the Canadian postal system in 1950 was 1,362,310,155 items"},{"fact":"The highest toll paid by a ship to cross the Panama Canal was by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993 in the amount of $141,349.97 U.S. funds"},{"fact":"The name of the famous snack \"Twinkies\" was invented by seeing a billboard in St. Louis, that said \"Twinkle Toe Shoes.\""},{"fact":"The word \"Nazi\" is actually an abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which refers to the National Socialist German Workers Party"},{"fact":"The unique characteristics of Barbie dolls in Japan are that they have their lips closed with no teeth showing"},{"fact":"The Coca Cola company offers more than 300 different beverages"},{"fact":"Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics"},{"fact":"Five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married"},{"fact":"Camel is considered unclean meat in the Bible"},{"fact":"Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL"},{"fact":"In the U.S., over one million gallons of cosmetics, drinks, and lotions are sold that contain aloe in them per year"},{"fact":"The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the\"General Purpose\" vehicle, G.P."},{"fact":"Eating eight strawberries will provide you with more Vitamin C than an orange"},{"fact":"The first toilet ever seen on television was on \"Leave It To Beaver\"."},{"fact":"Mosquitoes have teeth"},{"fact":"To be born on Sunday was considered a sign of great sin during the Puritan times"},{"fact":"The citrus soda \"7 UP\" was created in 1929. The original name of the popular drink was \"Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda\", but it got changed to \"7 UP.\""},{"fact":"The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day"},{"fact":"Prosopagnosia refers to the inability to identify people by their faces. In severe cased prosopagnosia a person may not be able to identify themselves in a mirror"},{"fact":"On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an \"Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.\""},{"fact":"An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day"},{"fact":"In 1888, Hollywood was founded by Harvey and Daeida Wilcox, who named the city after their summer home in Chicago"},{"fact":"Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint"},{"fact":"In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner."},{"fact":"\"I am.\" is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language"},{"fact":"On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime"},{"fact":"Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar"},{"fact":"Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight"},{"fact":"A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere"},{"fact":"The longest hiccups on record was by an American pig farmer whose hiccups persisted from 1922 to 1987"},{"fact":"Coupons were introduced in 1894 when Asa Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula for $2,300 and gave people coupons that he had written out to receive a free glass of coke"},{"fact":"Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther"},{"fact":"Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid"},{"fact":"In London, during rush hour traffic moves on average at 13 kilometres an hour"},{"fact":"Tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits"},{"fact":"In the United States, approximately 50 million people fish per year"},{"fact":"Cattle can produce up to 180 litres of saliva in one day"},{"fact":"Dolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear region"},{"fact":"Teflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938"},{"fact":"The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore. updated"},{"fact":"Close to 80% of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials"},{"fact":"The first theatre to show motion pictures was the Nickelodeon on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield Street"},{"fact":"The White House has a movie theater, swimming pool, bowling lane, jogging track, and a tennis court"},{"fact":"About two hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate that winter was approaching"},{"fact":"Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten"},{"fact":"A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow"},{"fact":"In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and \"Go.\""},{"fact":"The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the \"American Pie.\" (Thus the nameof the Don McLean song.)"},{"fact":"Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two."},{"fact":"A baby kangaroo is called a joey"},{"fact":"Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after Paris"},{"fact":"There were 43,687 toilet related accidents in the United States in 1996"},{"fact":"In Albania, nodding your head means \"no\" and shaking your head means \"yes.\""},{"fact":"Ringo Starr appeared in a Japanese advertisement for apple sauce. Ironically his name means \"apple sauce\" in Japanese"},{"fact":"The average US worker toils for two hours and 47 minutes of each working day just to pay income tax. 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Second, a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August, 1970 (by that time, she had spent over $700 in lessons, and could no longer afford to buy a car)" + }, + { + "fact": "Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur" + }, + { + "fact": "Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals" + }, + { + "fact": "Half of a cup of figs will give you just as much calcium as half a cup of milk" + }, + { + "fact": "A \"hairbreadth away\" is 1/48 of an inch" + }, + { + "fact": "In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet" + }, + { + "fact": "Walt Disney was afraid of mice" + }, + { + "fact": "Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke" + }, + { + "fact": "The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle" + }, + { + "fact": "Approximately 50% of Americans admit they have ran a red light" + }, + { + "fact": "In 1755, the first Canadian post office opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 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You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar" + }, + { + "fact": "Most American car horns honk in the key of F" + }, + { + "fact": "A superstition in baseball is to never lend your bat to anyone or you will be jinxed" + }, + { + "fact": "Bats always turn left when exiting a cave" + }, + { + "fact": "Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air" + }, + { + "fact": "In 1998, approximately 1.6 billion tree seedlings were planted in the United States. This amounts to about five trees per American" + }, + { + "fact": "There are species of fish that can walk on land in search of water when its water source dries up. Some can survive as long as three days on land such as the snakehead fish" + }, + { + "fact": "Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap at Nascar with a pit crew member still on the hood" + }, + { + "fact": "The first fashion house to be set up was in 1858 by Charles Worth. He opened his store in Paris with the idea of having pre-made gowns presented on models to his customers" + }, + { + "fact": "St. Patrick explained the Holy Trinity to King Laoghaire, using the shamrock to illustrate the trinity" + }, + { + "fact": "More twins are born in the Western world than in the Eastern world" + }, + { + "fact": "Nine egg yolks have been found in one chicken egg" + }, + { + "fact": "The record for the longest Monopoly game played in a bathtub is ninety-nine hours" + }, + { + "fact": "The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a 6 foot-tall human jumping the length of 7 football fields" + }, + { + "fact": "The 1988 move \"Big\" which was directed by Penny Marshall was the first movie by a female director to gross over $100 million domestically" + }, + { + "fact": "When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object." + }, + { + "fact": "In 1972, a gorilla by the name of \"Koko\" was taught ASL (American Sign Language) for the deaf. By the year 2000, the gorilla could understand approximately 2,000 English words" + }, + { + "fact": "3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria" + }, + { + "fact": "The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing \"melanin\" which gives the hair colour" + }, + { + "fact": "Approximately 125 people die in the United States from an anaphylaxis to foods each year" + }, + { + "fact": "The word \"vamp\" is used to describe the upper front top of a shoe" + }, + { + "fact": "Construction on the White House began in October of 1792" + }, + { + "fact": "A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. 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If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got \"the whole 9 yards.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "Construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began on August 9th, 1173" + }, + { + "fact": "President Lyndon Johnson used to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day" + }, + { + "fact": "The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma" + }, + { + "fact": "The word \"laser\" stands for \"Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission by radiation.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "In a lifetime, on average a honey bee produces 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey" + }, + { + "fact": "There are 315 species of parrot in the world" + }, + { + "fact": "The TV show Doctor Who, when it was popular, had an audience of 110 million people" + }, + { + "fact": "The cost to build the Empire State Building was $40,948,900" + }, + { + "fact": "A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years" + }, + { + "fact": "Wasps that feed on ferment occasionally get drunk and pass out" + }, + { + "fact": "The largest cereal company in the world is Quaker Oats, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA" + }, + { + "fact": "The first Olympic games only had one event - a foot race" + }, + { + "fact": "Colonel Sanders traveled over 250,000 miles a year visiting various parts of his Kentucky Fried Chicken Empire" + }, + { + "fact": "Some desert snails have been known to sleep for three to four years" + }, + { + "fact": "Over 80% of the brain is water" + }, + { + "fact": "From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size" + }, + { + "fact": "Jackrabbits can reach a speed of fifty miles per hour and can leap as far as twenty feet" + }, + { + "fact": "There are 40 official jelly belly flavours" + }, + { + "fact": "Early sewing machines were destroyed by mobs or workers who felt their jobs were threatened by automation" + }, + { + "fact": "In 1992, the Antarctic Ozone hole was larger than the continent of North America." + }, + { + "fact": "Someone gets divorced every ten to thirteen seconds" + }, + { + "fact": "There is a certain type of Hawk Moth caterpillar from Brazil that inflates its thorax, which makes its head look like a head of a snake when it feels it is in danger or alarmed" + }, + { + "fact": "The CIA has made a disk camera that is as big as a quarter. This gadget can take many pictures at a time when the disk is opened." + }, + { + "fact": "The Sanskrit word for \"war\" means \"desire for more cows.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "In Hong Kong, delivery times are primarily influenced by traffic conditions on elevators. It often takes drivers longer to travel vertically than horizontally, as access to elevators is so congested during \"high peak\" hours. This is due to the volume of people residing in high rises" + }, + { + "fact": "The ancient Greeks had a fascination with the planet Mars. They attributed the planet to Ares, their god of war, because of its red colour" + }, + { + "fact": "The only lizard that has a voice is the Gecko" + }, + { + "fact": "In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath" + }, + { + "fact": "In twins, there is a great chance that one will be left handed" + }, + { + "fact": "In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick." + }, + { + "fact": "In the Pacific Islands when people get burns they often use a banana leaf as treatment" + }, + { + "fact": "Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War" + }, + { + "fact": "An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs. 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This later was changed to the Zoological Museum" + }, + { + "fact": "A surfer once sued another surfer for \"stealing his wave.\" The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on \"pain and suffering\" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride \"his\" wave" + }, + { + "fact": "Many people in parts of China eat insects. Some common insects are bean worms, scoprions, and locusts" + }, + { + "fact": "The largest dog in the world is the Irish Wolfhound" + }, + { + "fact": "Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, \"Gadsby,\" without any word containing the letter \"e.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "The projection light used for IMAX theaters can be seen from space." + }, + { + "fact": "The human liver performs over 500 functions" + }, + { + "fact": "Ballroom dancing is a course at Brigham Young University in Utah" + }, + { + "fact": "The word \"maverick\" came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan, refused to brand his cattle. 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These people would usually sell in large quantities, or by the \"gross.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas" + }, + { + "fact": "Actress Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice to play Clarice Starling in the movie \"Silence of the Lambs.\" She turned down the role because she found it too scary" + }, + { + "fact": "The White House has 35 bathrooms, 3 elevators, 132 rooms, and 412 doors in it" + }, + { + "fact": "Due to the deforestation of the forests in North China, over one million tons of sands blows into Beijing from the Gobi desert. It sometimes causes the sky to turn yellow." + }, + { + "fact": "Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings" + }, + { + "fact": "Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers, and lawns" + }, + { + "fact": "The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats." + }, + { + "fact": "In 1970, Chip maker Intel purchased a pear orchard to build their corporate headquarters on" + }, + { + "fact": "The mating call of a male toadfish, who are underwater, is so loud that it can be heard by humans above water" + }, + { + "fact": "The most popular jelly belly jellybean flavour is buttered popcorn" + }, + { + "fact": "The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972" + }, + { + "fact": "Slaves under the last emperors of China wore pigtails so they could be picked out quickly" + }, + { + "fact": "A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out" + }, + { + "fact": "Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak" + }, + { + "fact": "An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in length and is one inch in diameter" + }, + { + "fact": "A squash ball moving at 150 kilometers per hour has the same impact of a .22 bullet" + }, + { + "fact": "Telephonophobia is the fear of telephones" + }, + { + "fact": "The word alligator comes from the Spanish word El Lagarto, which means \"The Lizard.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "While still in college, Bill Gates and Paul Allen once built a special purpose machine called \"Traff-O-Data.\" It was a machine that would analyze information gathered by traffic monitors. They never found any buyers." + }, + { + "fact": "The citric acid found in lemon juice is said to be able to dissolve a pearl" + }, + { + "fact": "Robert Southey wrote the story \"Goldilocks and the Three Bears\" in 1834" + }, + { + "fact": "The tallest woman in the world is American Sandy Allen who is 7 feet 7 inches" + }, + { + "fact": "American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class" + }, + { + "fact": "Astronauts get taller when they are in space" + }, + { + "fact": "Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood" + }, + { + "fact": "Dentyne gum was invented in 1899 by a druggist from New York named Franklin V. Canning" + }, + { + "fact": "It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach" + }, + { + "fact": "When former Texas Governor James Hogg was on his deathbed he made a special request that a pecan tree be planted at the head of his grave instead of a tombstone. 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It was found in 1924 and nicknamed the \"Uncle Sam.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus." + }, + { + "fact": "Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks" + }, + { + "fact": "The average number of people that go to a party for the Super Bowl is 17" + }, + { + "fact": "The amount of Kit Kat chocolate bars that are made at the York factory every 15 minutes are enough to outstack the Eiffel Tower" + }, + { + "fact": "The skin of a shark is made up of \"tiny teeth\" which are called dermal denticles" + }, + { + "fact": "The strongest gust of wind was recorded at the Mount Washington Observatory on April 12th, 1934, and measured 231 miles per hour." + }, + { + "fact": "The company Chanel claims that every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world, a bottle of Chanel No 5 is sold" + }, + { + "fact": "In their lifetime, house cats spend approximately 10,950 hours purring" + }, + { + "fact": "The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside" + }, + { + "fact": "It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat" + }, + { + "fact": "From 1526 to 1707, the first six Mogul emperors of India ruled in unbroken succession from father to son" + }, + { + "fact": "A one kilogram packet of sugar will have about 5 million grains of sugar" + }, + { + "fact": "Bats emit ultrasonic sounds to communicate with each other" + }, + { + "fact": "Rats can survive up to 14 days without any food" + }, + { + "fact": "Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons" + }, + { + "fact": "Three consecutive strikes in bowling is called a turkey" + }, + { + "fact": "In a year, about 90 million jars of Skippy Peanut Butter are sold. 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The record observed in an aquarium is fifteen months by a species of shark known as the \"swell shark.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "The destruction of the Berlin Wall began when private citizens began to demolish entire sections of the Wall without interference from government officials on November 9, 1989" + }, + { + "fact": "Most American women have their first baby when they are 24.3 years old" + }, + { + "fact": "Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin" + }, + { + "fact": "A group of larks is called an exaltation" + }, + { + "fact": "The Kool Aid Man used to be known as \"Pitcher Man\" when he was first introduced in 1975" + }, + { + "fact": "Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White holds the record for putting her hands together approximately 140,000 times to clap" + }, + { + "fact": "Men sweat more than women. 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The entire family was taken by an army detachment to Edinburgh and executed, apparently without trial" + }, + { + "fact": "The movie that grossed the most money that was adapted from a T.V. cartoon is Scooby-Doo" + }, + { + "fact": "There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose" + }, + { + "fact": "When Coca-Cola was invented, American tourists that visited Spain were surprised to see that Coke was three times as expensive as a glass of brandy" + }, + { + "fact": "Some silkworms can spin cocoons that contain more than two miles of silk" + }, + { + "fact": "The mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler was accused of being a witch" + }, + { + "fact": "At one time, Pumpkins were recommended for the removal of freckles and curing snake bites" + }, + { + "fact": "The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. 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This book was remarkably similar to the tragedy that happened to the Titanic in 1912" + }, + { + "fact": "One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it" + }, + { + "fact": "A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel" + }, + { + "fact": "Vikings, after killing their enemies, used their skulls as drinking vessels" + }, + { + "fact": "Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk" + }, + { + "fact": "Two out of five people end up marrying their first love" + }, + { + "fact": "The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters" + }, + { + "fact": "The name \"Muppet\" was coined by Jim Henson. The word was made from a combination of the word \"marionette\" and \"puppet.\"" + }, + { + "fact": "In the Sahara Desert, there is a town named Tidikelt, which did not receive a drop of rain for ten years" + }, + { + "fact": "The Christmas season begins after sunset on December 24th and lasts until January 5th. 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This was regardless of family income, or education" + }, + { + "fact": "About 25 percent of all the energy consumed in the US is from natural gas" + }, + { + "fact": "American novelist Mark Twain was the first known author to submit a typed manuscript" + }, + { + "fact": "If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb" + }, + { + "fact": "Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic games while hosting the event" + }, + { + "fact": "The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore" + }, + { + "fact": "In America, approximately 20% of children between the ages of 2 - 7 have televisions in their rooms" + }, + { + "fact": "Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation." + }, + { + "fact": "In 1996, toy company Mattel released a \"Harley Davidson\" Barbie. This dolls distinctive feature is a birth mark on her face that changes position with every new release of the doll" + }, + { + "fact": "The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand" + }, + { + "fact": "There have been close to 200 coups and counter-coups in the country of Bolivia" + }, + { + "fact": "On average, pigs live for about 15 years" + }, + { + "fact": "Roughly 42% of people in the United Kingdom snore" + }, + { + "fact": "No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl" + }, + { + "fact": "Beluga whales which are also called \"white whales\" are not born white. They are born grey in color, and by the age of six become completely white" + }, + { + "fact": "Tiger Woods is the first athlete to has been named \"Sportsman of the Year\" by magazine Sports Illustrated two times" + }, + { + "fact": "The eight most popular foods to cause food allergies are: milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, fish, and shellfish" + }, + { + "fact": "Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts" + }, + { + "fact": "There are some bananas that are red instead of yellow" + }, + { + "fact": "Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom" + }, + { + "fact": "570 gallons of paint would be needed to paint the outside of the White House" + }, + { + "fact": "Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day" + }, + { + "fact": "Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world" + }, + { + "fact": "The total mileage driven by all U-Haul trucks in a year is enough to move a person from the Earth to the moon five times a day for an entire year" + }, + { + "fact": "The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every fivemust be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips intimes ofwar or other emergencies." + }, + { + "fact": "Pluto was discovered on February 10, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh" + }, + { + "fact": "Termites have been around for over 250 million years" + }, + { + "fact": "The average person changes their career every 13 years" + }, + { + "fact": "The New York Yankees have appeared in the World Series a league leading 38 times and won 26 titles" + }, + { + "fact": "Approximately 18 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year. These diapers can takes as long as 500 years to finally decompose" + }, + { + "fact": "Over 4.5 billion sticks have Trident gum have been chewed. 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They actually develop them as they get older" + }, + { + "fact": "Male goats will pee on each other in order to attract mates" + }, + { + "fact": "A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957" + }, + { + "fact": "In 2002, dogs have killed more people in the U.S. than the Great White shark has killed in the past 100 years" + }, + { + "fact": "The study of twins is known as gemellology" + }, + { + "fact": "On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the \"1\" encased in the \"shield\" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner" + }, + { + "fact": "During one seven year period, Thomas Edison obtained approximately three hundred patents. In is whole life he obtained over one thousand patents." + }, + { + "fact": "When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. 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He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists." + }, + { + "fact": "Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups" + }, + { + "fact": "There are more than 2,000 different varieties of cheese in the world" + }, + { + "fact": "On average, Guinness sells 7 million glasses of beer a day" + }, + { + "fact": "An artist from Chicago named Dwight Kalb created a statue of Madonna made out of 180 pounds of ham" + }, + { + "fact": "Reports from owners of cats and dogs indicate that 21% of dogs and 7% of cats snore" + }, + { + "fact": "The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour" + }, + { + "fact": "To make one raindrop of water, it takes approximately a million cloud droplets" + }, + { + "fact": "At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel" + }, + { + "fact": "The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear" + }, + { + "fact": "India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century" + }, + { + "fact": "The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer" + }, + { + "fact": "Some African tribes refer to themselves as \"motherhoods\" instead of families" + }, + { + "fact": "Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India" + }, + { + "fact": "The word vaccine comes from the Latin word \"vacca,\" which means cow. This name was chosen beacause the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy" + }, + { + "fact": "James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang" + }, + { + "fact": "A snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them" + }, + { + "fact": "Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary" + }, + { + "fact": "Approximately 97.35618329% of all statistics are made up" + }, + { + "fact": "The largest spider ever was the Megarachne which had a diameter of 50 cm. 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The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers" + }, + { + "fact": "Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour" + }, + { + "fact": "In the 1985 Boise, Idaho mayoral election, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head" + }, + { + "fact": "MS-DOS was originally calle QDOS and was bought of the author by Microsoft for a small fee. The rest is history" + }, + { + "fact": "Marilyn Monroe had six toes" + }, + { + "fact": "The Roman emperor Commodus was at one time going to change the name of Rome to Colonia Commodiana" + }, + { + "fact": "The state of Alaska has almost twice as many caribou as people" + }, + { + "fact": "Another way to say \"every 9 years\" is Novennial" + }, + { + "fact": "In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. 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Figlock and both babies survived" + }, + { + "fact": "Close to fifty percent of Internet shoppers spend over five hours a week online" + }, + { + "fact": "Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the USA" + }, + { + "fact": "For people that are lactose intolerant, chocolate aids in helping milk digest easier" + }, + { + "fact": "Using recycled aluminum cans and making news cans out of them saves 75% energy compared to making it from new material." + }, + { + "fact": "In a year, Americans eat approximately 20 billion pickles" + }, + { + "fact": "Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows" + }, + { + "fact": "There are are roughly 100 million single adults living in the USA" + }, + { + "fact": "In the year 2000, there were approximately 11,000 injuries that were treated in a hospital in the U.S. that resulted from fireworks" + }, + { + "fact": "Brazil is the largest producers of oranges in the world" + }, + { + "fact": "4% of an apples is made up of minerals and vitamins, and over 80% is made up of water" + }, + { + "fact": "From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain" + }, + { + "fact": "In 1902, the coat hanger was invented Albert Parkhouse who was frustrated at the lack of hooks available to hang up his coat at work. His company thought it was a good idea and patented the invention and unfortunately, Parkhouse never received any money for his idea" + }, + { + "fact": "If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes" + }, + { + "fact": "The longest game of Monopoly played underwater is 45 days" + }, + { + "fact": "In WWII, when allied armies reached the Rhine River the first thing men did was pee in it. This was pretty universal from the lowest private to Winston Churchill (who made a big show of it). Gen. Patton had himself photographed in the act" + }, + { + "fact": "Peaches were once known as Persian apples" + }, + { + "fact": "Dustin Phillips of the U.S. has the record for ketchup drinking. 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This was the only vegetable flavoured ice cream produced. However, they discontinued it since they thought it would not sell well" + }, + { + "fact": "In an year, an average person makes 1,140 phone calls" + }, + { + "fact": "The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat" + }, + { + "fact": "A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. 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Hi there! I'm Nhật Minh (or NMinh for short). I'm currently a 10th grader and a + self-taught programmer developing front-end coding skills.I've been building my coding skills since 5th + grade (Although having to stop in 8th and 9th grade) and + since had have some experience with coding and scripting many languages. Oh yeah, I'm also a Minecraft + player in my free time. +
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+ $("#status2").text("Sleeping"); + } else { + $("#status").text("Busy / Not Available"); + $("#status2").text("Busy / Not Available"); } - if (statjs.data.discord_status === 'idle') { - $("#status").text("Not Active") - $("#status2").text("Not Active") + } + if (statjs.data.discord_status === "offline") { + if (d.d.getHours() >= 22) { + $("#status").text("Sleeping"); + $("#status2").text("Sleeping"); + } else { + $("#status").text("Offline"); + $("#status2").text("Offline"); } - $("#statsdot").css("background", `${Color[statjs.data.discord_status]}`) - $("#statsdot2").css("background", `${Color[statjs.data.discord_status]}`) - if ((statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true || (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true && statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true)) && statjs.data.discord_status === 'online' && statjs.data.listening_to_spotify === false) { - $("#status").text("Online") - $("#status2").text("Online") + } + if (statjs.data.discord_status === "idle") { + if (d.d.getHours() >= 22) { + $("#status").text("Sleeping"); + $("#status2").text("Sleeping"); + } else { + $("#status").text("Not Active"); + $("#status2").text("Not Active"); } - if (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === false && statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true && statjs.data.discord_status === 'online' && statjs.data.listening_to_spotify === false) { - $("#status").text("Online on Mobile") - $("#status2").text("Online on Mobile") + } + $("#statsdot").css("background", `${Color[statjs.data.discord_status]}`); + $("#statsdot2").css("background", `${Color[statjs.data.discord_status]}`); + if ( + (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true || + (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true && + statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true)) && + statjs.data.discord_status === "online" && + statjs.data.listening_to_spotify === false + ) { + $("#status").text("Online"); + $("#status2").text("Online"); + } + if ( + statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === false && + statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true && + statjs.data.discord_status === "online" && + statjs.data.listening_to_spotify === false + ) { + $("#status").text("Online on Mobile"); + $("#status2").text("Online on Mobile"); + } + if ( + statjs.data.listening_to_spotify === true && + statjs.data.discord_status === "online" + ) { + if ( + (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true || + (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true && + statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true)) && + statjs.data.discord_status === "online" + ) { + $("#status").text("Online & Listening to Spotify"); + $("#status2").text("Online & Listening to Spotify"); } - if (statjs.data.listening_to_spotify === true && statjs.data.discord_status === 'online') { - if ((statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true || (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === true && statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true)) && statjs.data.discord_status === 'online') { - $("#status").text("Online & Listening to Spotify") - $("#status2").text("Online & Listening to Spotify") - } - if (statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === false && statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true && statjs.data.discord_status === 'online') { - $("#status").text("Listening to Spotify") - $("#status2").text("Listening to Spotify") - } - $(".spotifyname").css("grid-area", '2 / 2 / 3 / 4') - $(".songart").css("grid-area", '2 / 1 / 3 / 2') - $(".songart").css("display", 'block') - $(".spotifyname").css("display", 'block') - }else{ - $(".spotifyname").css("grid-area", '') - $(".songart").css("grid-area", '') - $(".songart").css("display", 'none') - $(".spotifyname").css("display", 'none') + if ( + statjs.data.active_on_discord_desktop === false && + statjs.data.active_on_discord_mobile === true && + statjs.data.discord_status === "online" + ) { + $("#status").text("Listening to Spotify"); 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+ $("#artist").text(`${json.data.spotify.artist}`); + $(".nameastat").css("padding-right", "2vw"); + const d = spacetime.now("asia/saigon"); + const lengthsec = ( + ((json.data.spotify.timestamps.end - json.data.spotify.timestamps.start) % + 60000) / + 1000 + ).toFixed(0); + const currentsec = ( + ((d.epoch - json.data.spotify.timestamps.start) % 60000) / + 1000 + ).toFixed(0); + const lengthmin = Math.floor( + (json.data.spotify.timestamps.end - json.data.spotify.timestamps.start) / + 60000 + ); + const currentmin = Math.floor( + (d.epoch - json.data.spotify.timestamps.start) / 60000 + ); + if (currentsec < 10) { + currentsectimed = "0" + currentsec; + } else { + currentsectimed = currentsec; + } + if (lengthsec < 10) { + lengthsectimed = "0" + lengthsec; + } else { + lengthsectimed = lengthsec; + } + if (currentsec == 60) { + currentsectimed = "00"; + currentmintimed = currentmin + 1; + } else { + currentmintimed = currentmin; } + if (lengthsec == 60) { + lengthsectimed = "00"; + lengthmintimed = lengthmin + 1; + } else { + lengthmintimed = lengthmin; + } + $("#timestamp").text( + `${currentmintimed}:${currentsectimed} / ${lengthmintimed}:${lengthsectimed}` + ); + } else { + $(".nameastat").css("padding-right", ""); + } } async function loadfacts() { - const res = await fetch('./facts.json'); - const factsjs = await res.json(); - const random = Math.floor(Math.random() * factsjs.facts.length); - $("#fact").text(factsjs.facts[random].fact); + const res = await fetch("./facts.json"); + const factsjs = await res.json(); + const random = Math.floor(Math.random() * factsjs.facts.length); + $("#fact").text(factsjs.facts[random].fact); } -const txtarr = ["A professional in Undefined", "Creating solution for absolutely nothing", "Nothing make sense", "Technically good!", "≈70% bug free!", "Tell your friends about this.", "ReferenceError: header.txt Undefined", "Nice to meet you!", "√-1 love you!", "12345678 is a bad password!", "Have a great day!", "There are no real limits, not even the sky!", "!false is actually true!", "It's not a bug, it's a feature!", "If it works, it works.", 'print("Hello World!")', "Created with 867 lines of code!", 'Playing hide and seek with a ";"', "How is this working!?", "Time wasted creating this: A lot", "It's either !Yes or No", "If + else = elif", "What a pain!", "Mobile friendly!", "Perfectly balanced!", "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!", "It's either !No or Yes", "15% coding, 75% debugging, 10% staring into the abyss.", "Built with galvanized square steel!", "Built with eco-friendly wood veneer!"] -$("#titletxt").text(txtarr[Math.floor(Math.random() * txtarr.length)]) -if (window.innerHeight > 1232 && (window.innerHeight > window.innerWidth)) { - alert(`Use landscape mode for better experience! \nXoay ngang thiết bị của bạn để có trải nghiệm tốt hơn!`); +const txtarr = [ + "A professional in Undefined", + "Creating solution for absolutely nothing", + "Nothing make sense", + "Technically good!", + "≈70% bug free!", + "Tell your friends about this.", + "ReferenceError: header.txt Undefined", + "Nice to meet you!", + "√-1 love you!", + "12345678 is a bad password!", + "Have a great day!", + "There are no real limits, not even the sky!", + "!false is actually true!", + "It's not a bug, it's a feature!", + "If it works, it works.", + 'print("Hello World!")', + "Created with 867 lines of code!", + 'Playing hide and seek with a ";"', + "How is this working!?", + "Time wasted creating this: A lot", + "It's either !Yes or No", + "If + else = elif", + "What a pain!", + "Mobile friendly!", + "Perfectly balanced!", + "EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!", + "It's either !No or Yes", + "15% coding, 75% debugging, 10% staring into the abyss.", + "Built with galvanized square steel!", + "Built with eco-friendly wood veneer!", +]; +$("#titletxt").text(txtarr[Math.floor(Math.random() * txtarr.length)]); +if (window.innerHeight > 1232 && window.innerHeight > window.innerWidth) { + alert( + `Use landscape mode for better experience! \nXoay ngang thiết bị của bạn để có trải nghiệm tốt hơn!` + ); } -loadfacts() -loadstatus() -setInterval(function() { - loadstatus() -}, 5000) -setInterval(function() { - loadspotify() -}, 1000) \ No newline at end of file +loadfacts(); +loadstatus(); +setInterval(function () { + loadstatus(); +}, 5000); +setInterval(function () { + loadspotify(); +}, 1000); \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/style.css b/style.css index 46bc17b..8189bb2 100644 --- a/style.css +++ b/style.css @@ -1,536 +1,579 @@ -/* -* Prefixed by https://autoprefixer.github.io -* PostCSS: v8.4.14, -* Autoprefixer: v10.4.7 -* Browsers: last 30 version -*/ - @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter); @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Protest+Riot); @-webkit-keyframes textAnimate { - 0% { - stroke-dasharray: 0 50%; - stroke-dashoffset: 20%; - fill: #000; - opacity: 0 - } + 0% { + stroke-dasharray: 0 50%; + stroke-dashoffset: 20%; + fill: #000; + opacity: 0; + } - to { - stroke-dasharray: 50%0; - stroke-dashoffstet: -20%; - fill: #000 - } + to { + stroke-dasharray: 50%0; + stroke-dashoffstet: -20%; + fill: #000; + } } @keyframes textAnimate { - 0% { - stroke-dasharray: 0 50%; - stroke-dashoffset: 20%; - fill: #000; - opacity: 0 - } + 0% { + stroke-dasharray: 0 50%; + stroke-dashoffset: 20%; + fill: #000; + opacity: 0; + } - to { - stroke-dasharray: 50%0; - stroke-dashoffstet: -20%; - fill: #000 - } + to { + stroke-dasharray: 50%0; + stroke-dashoffstet: -20%; + fill: #000; + } } @-webkit-keyframes headerAnimate { - 0%,50% { - opacity: 0 - } + 0%, + 50% { + opacity: 0; + } - to { - opacity: .35 - } + to { + opacity: 0.35; + } } @keyframes headerAnimate { - 0%,50% { - opacity: 0 - } + 0%, + 50% { + opacity: 0; + } - to { - opacity: .35 - } + to { + opacity: 0.35; + } } @-webkit-keyframes headerAnimate2 { - 0%,50% { - opacity: 0 - } + 0%, + 50% { + opacity: 0; + } - to { - opacity: 1 - } + to { + opacity: 1; + } } @keyframes headerAnimate2 { - 0%,50% { - opacity: 0 - } + 0%, + 50% { + opacity: 0; + } - to { - opacity: 1 - } + to { + opacity: 1; + } } * { - margin: 0; - padding: 0; - -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; - box-sizing: border-box + margin: 0; + padding: 0; + -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; + box-sizing: border-box; } html { - font-size: 155.5%; - -ms-overflow-style: none; - scrollbar-width: none + font-size: 155.5%; + -ms-overflow-style: none; + scrollbar-width: none; } html::-webkit-scrollbar { - display: none + display: none; } #progressbar { - position: fixed; - top: 0; - right: 0; - width: 10px; - height: 4%; - -webkit-border-radius: 10px; - border-radius: 10px; - background: #fff; - opacity: .35 + position: fixed; + top: 0; + right: 0; + width: 10px; + height: 4%; + -webkit-border-radius: 10px; + border-radius: 10px; + background: #fff; + opacity: 0.35; } :root { - --overflow: auto; - --background: url(bg.png) + --overflow: auto; + --background: url(bg.png); } -a,body { - color: #fff +a, +body { + color: #fff; } -body,header section { - -webkit-box-orient: vertical; - -webkit-box-direction: normal; - -webkit-flex-direction: column; - -ms-flex-direction: column; - flex-direction: column +body, +header section { + -webkit-box-orient: vertical; + -webkit-box-direction: normal; + -webkit-flex-direction: column; + -ms-flex-direction: column; + flex-direction: column; } body { - font-family: Inter,sans-serif; - background: #272638; - font-weight: 400; - overflow: var(--overflow); - -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap; - -ms-flex-wrap: wrap; - flex-wrap: wrap; - width: 100%; - height: auto; - text-align: center; - margin: 0 auto -} - -body,header,svg text { - display: inline-block + font-family: Inter, sans-serif; + background: #272638; + font-weight: 400; + overflow: var(--overflow); + -webkit-flex-wrap: wrap; + -ms-flex-wrap: wrap; + flex-wrap: wrap; + width: 100%; + height: auto; + text-align: center; + margin: 0 auto; +} + +body, +header, +svg text { + display: inline-block; } header { - -webkit-box-align: center; - -webkit-align-items: center; - -ms-flex-align: center; - align-items: center; - -webkit-transform: translateY(-50%); - -ms-transform: translateY(-50%); - transform: translateY(-50%); - margin-top: 50vh + -webkit-box-align: center; + -webkit-align-items: center; + -ms-flex-align: center; + align-items: center; + -webkit-transform: translateY(-50%); + -ms-transform: translateY(-50%); + transform: translateY(-50%); + margin-top: 50vh; } header section { - gap: 20px + gap: 20px; } #res-fts { - font-size: larger + font-size: larger; } a { - text-decoration: none + text-decoration: none; } -#bg,header section { - display: -webkit-box; - display: -webkit-flex; - display: -ms-flexbox; - display: flex +#bg, +header section { + display: -webkit-box; + display: -webkit-flex; + display: -ms-flexbox; + display: flex; } #bg { - --times: clamp(0, -webkit-calc(-5 * var(--yval, 0) + 1.5), 1); - --times: clamp(0, calc(-5 * var(--yval, 0) + 1.5), 1); - position: fixed; - -webkit-transform: translate(-webkit-calc(var(--x,0)*var(--times,1)),-webkit-calc(var(--y,0)*var(--times,1))); - -ms-transform: translate(calc(var(--x,0)*var(--times,1)),calc(var(--y,0)*var(--times,1))); - transform: translate(calc(var(--x,0)*var(--times,1)),calc(var(--y,0)*var(--times,1))); - z-index: -1; - -webkit-filter: blur(clamp(0px,-webkit-calc(50px*var(--yval,0) + -5px),10px)) brightness(clamp(.7,-webkit-calc(-.5*var(--yval,0) + .85),.8)); - filter: blur(clamp(0px,calc(50px*var(--yval, 0) + -5px),10px)) brightness(clamp(.7,calc(-.5*var(--yval, 0) + .85),.8)); - inset: -30px; - background: #272638 var(--background) center/cover no-repeat; - opacity: .5 + --times: clamp(0, -webkit-calc(-5 * var(--yval, 0) + 1.5), 1); + --times: clamp(0, calc(-5 * var(--yval, 0) + 1.5), 1); + position: fixed; + -webkit-transform: translate( + -webkit-calc(var(--x, 0) * var(--times, 1)), + -webkit-calc(var(--y, 0) * var(--times, 1)) + ); + -ms-transform: translate(calc(var(--x, 0) * var(--times, 1)), calc(var(--y, 0) * var(--times, 1))); + transform: translate(calc(var(--x, 0) * var(--times, 1)), calc(var(--y, 0) * var(--times, 1))); + z-index: -1; + -webkit-filter: blur(clamp(0px, -webkit-calc(50px * var(--yval, 0) + -5px), 10px)) + brightness(clamp(0.7, -webkit-calc(-0.5 * var(--yval, 0) + 0.85), 0.8)); + filter: blur(clamp(0px, calc(50px * var(--yval, 0) + -5px), 10px)) + brightness(clamp(0.7, calc(-0.5 * var(--yval, 0) + 0.85), 0.8)); + inset: -30px; + background: #272638 var(--background) center/cover no-repeat; + opacity: 0.5; } svg text { - font-family: "Protest Riot"; - letter-spacing: 10px; - stroke: #9d9d9d; - font-size: 173px; - font-weight: 900; - stroke-width: 1; - -webkit-animation: 4s textAnimate; - animation: 4s textAnimate; - margin-top: 50% + font-family: "Protest Riot"; + letter-spacing: 10px; + stroke: #9d9d9d; + font-size: 173px; + font-weight: 900; + stroke-width: 1; + -webkit-animation: 4s textAnimate; + animation: 4s textAnimate; + margin-top: 50%; } header section pre { - text-align: center; - font-size: xx-large; - -webkit-animation: 8s headerAnimate; - animation: 8s headerAnimate; - opacity: .35 + text-align: center; + font-size: xx-large; + -webkit-animation: 8s headerAnimate; + animation: 8s headerAnimate; + opacity: 0.35; } -@media (max-width:1090px) { - svg text { - font-size: 14.3vw - } +@media (max-width: 1090px) { + svg text { + font-size: 14.3vw; + } - header section pre { - font-size: 3vw - } + header section pre { + font-size: 3vw; + } } main { - display: block; - margin-top: 29vh + display: block; + margin-top: 29vh; } .aboutmesection { - width: 85vw; - -webkit-border-radius: 6px; - border-radius: 6px; - margin: auto; - height: -webkit-fit-content; - height: -moz-fit-content; - height: fit-content; - margin-bottom: 8vh; - margin-top: 8vh; - overflow-x: hidden -} - -.upleft,.upright { - position: absolute; - text-align: right; - font-size: 1.4vw; - -webkit-animation: 4s headerAnimate2; - animation: 4s headerAnimate2 + width: 85vw; + -webkit-border-radius: 6px; + border-radius: 6px; + margin: auto; + height: -webkit-fit-content; + height: -moz-fit-content; + height: fit-content; + margin-bottom: 8vh; + margin-top: 8vh; + overflow-x: hidden; +} + +.upleft, +.upright { + position: absolute; + text-align: center; + font-size: 1.4vw; + -webkit-animation: 4s headerAnimate2; + animation: 4s headerAnimate2; } .upright { - right: 15px + right: 15px; } .upleft { - left: 10px; - top: 10px; - background: #ffffff21; - padding: 6px; - -webkit-border-radius: 10px; - border-radius: 10px; - display: -ms-grid; - display: grid; - gap: 5px; - -ms-grid-columns: auto; - grid-template-columns: auto; - -ms-grid-rows: auto; - grid-template-rows: auto; - max-width: 60vw; - max-height: 267px -} - -.upleft > *:nth-child(1) { - -ms-grid-row: 1; - -ms-grid-column: 1 -} - -@media (max-width:1400px) { - .upleft { - max-width: 40vw - } + left: 10px; + top: 10px; + background: #ffffff21; + padding: 6px; + -webkit-border-radius: 10px; + border-radius: 10px; + display: -ms-grid; + display: grid; + gap: 5px; + -ms-grid-columns: auto; + grid-template-columns: auto; + -ms-grid-rows: auto; + grid-template-rows: auto; + max-width: 60vw; + max-height: 267px; +} + +.upleft > :nth-child(1) { + -ms-grid-row: 1; + -ms-grid-column: 1; +} + +@media (max-width: 1400px) { + .upleft { + max-width: 40vw; + } +} + +.nameastat, +.pfp { + -ms-grid-row: 1; + -ms-grid-row-span: 1; } .nameastat { - -ms-grid-row: 1; - -ms-grid-row-span: 1; - -ms-grid-column: 2; - -ms-grid-column-span: 2; - grid-area: 1/2/2/4; - max-width: 475px; - max-height: 102px; - text-align: left + -ms-grid-column: 2; + -ms-grid-column-span: 2; + -ms-grid-row: 1; + -ms-grid-row-span: 1; + grid-area: 1/2/2/4; + max-width: 475px; + max-height: 102px; + text-align: left; } .pfp { - -ms-grid-row: 1; - -ms-grid-row-span: 1; - -ms-grid-column: 1; - -ms-grid-column-span: 1; - grid-area: 1/1/2/2 -} - -.songart,.spotifyname { - -ms-grid-row: 2; - -ms-grid-row-span: 1; - -ms-grid-column: 2; - -ms-grid-column-span: 2; - grid-area: 2/2/3/4; - display: block; - overflow: hidden; - white-space: nowrap + -ms-grid-column: 1; + -ms-grid-column-span: 1; + -ms-grid-row: 1; + -ms-grid-row-span: 1; + grid-area: 1/1/2/2; } .songart { - -ms-grid-row: 2; - -ms-grid-row-span: 1; - -ms-grid-column: 1; - -ms-grid-column-span: 1; - grid-area: 2/1/3/2; - -webkit-border-radius: 5%; - border-radius: 5%; - width: 7vw; - display: block; - max-height: 137px; - max-width: 137px + overflow: hidden; + white-space: nowrap; +} + +.songart, +.spotifyname { + -ms-grid-row: 2; + -ms-grid-row-span: 1; +} + +.spotifyname { + -ms-grid-column: 2; + -ms-grid-column-span: 2; + -ms-grid-row: 2; + -ms-grid-row-span: 1; + grid-area: 2/2/3/4; + display: block; + overflow: hidden; + white-space: nowrap; +} + +.songart { + -ms-grid-column: 1; + -ms-grid-column-span: 1; + -ms-grid-row: 2; + -ms-grid-row-span: 1; + grid-area: 2/1/3/2; + -webkit-border-radius: 5%; } -.art { - border-radius:5%; - width:7vw; - display:block; - max-height:137px; - max-width:137px; +.art, +.songart { + -webkit-border-radius: 5%; + border-radius: 5%; + width: 7vw; + display: block; + max-height: 137px; + max-width: 137px; } .spotifyname { - text-align: left; - line-height: .4vw; - padding-top: 10px + text-align: left; + line-height: 0.4vw; + padding-top: 10px; +} + +footertext { + color: #858484; + font-size: 0.6vw; + margin-bottom: 0; } -.footer { - text-align: center; - vertical-align: middle; - line-height: 50px; - font-size: 2vw +@media (max-width: 1400px) { + footertext { + color: #858484; + font-size: 1vw; + margin-bottom: 0; + } } .trophy { - width: 68vw + width: 68vw; } .stuffs { - width: 60vw; - display: block; - margin: auto + width: 60vw; + display: block; + margin: auto; } .pic { - -webkit-border-radius: 50%; - border-radius: 50%; - width: 5vw; - max-width: 96px; - max-height: 96px + -webkit-border-radius: 50%; + border-radius: 50%; + width: 5vw; + max-width: 96px; + max-height: 96px; } #superlargedisplay { - display: none + display: none; } -@media (min-width:3200px) { - .upleft { - display: none - } +@media (min-width: 3200px) { + .upleft { + display: none; + } - #superlargedisplay { - display: block - } + #superlargedisplay { + display: block; + } } -@media (max-width:800px) { - .pic { - width: 10vw - } - - #status { - font-size: 2.3vw - } +@media (max-width: 800px) { + .pic { + width: 10vw; + } - #myname { - font-size: 2.8vw - } + #status { + font-size: 2.3vw; + } - .aboutmesection { - width: 90vw - } + #myname { + font-size: 2.8vw; + } - p { - line-height: 1.4 - } + .aboutmesection { + width: 90vw; + } - svg text { - stroke-width: 2 - } + p { + line-height: 1.4; + } - .upright,p { - font-size: 3vw - } + svg text { + stroke-width: 2; + } - .footer { - font-size: large - } + .upright, + footertext, + p { + font-size: 3vw; + } - .lang,.stats,.streak,.trophy { - width: 85vw - } + .lang, + .stats, + .streak, + .trophy { + width: 85vw; + } - h3 { - font-size: 5vw - } + h3 { + font-size: 5vw; + } - .stuffs { - width: 60vw - } + .stuffs { + width: 60vw; + } } h3 { - text-decoration: underline; - opacity: .7 + text-decoration: underline; + opacity: 0.7; } .factcontainer { - font-size: small; - opacity: .35; - position: absolute; - bottom: 10px; - text-align: left; - -webkit-animation: 2s headerAnimate; - animation: 2s headerAnimate + font-size: small; + opacity: 0.35; + position: absolute; + bottom: 10px; + text-align: left; + -webkit-animation: 2s headerAnimate; + animation: 2s headerAnimate; } .mobile-display { - display: none + display: none; } .desktop-display { - display: block + display: block; } #statsdot { - display: inline-block; - margin-right: .1em; - -webkit-border-radius: 50%; - border-radius: 50%; - width: .6em; - height: .6em; - max-width: 17px; - max-height: 17px + display: inline-block; + margin-right: 0.1em; + -webkit-border-radius: 50%; + border-radius: 50%; + width: 0.6em; + height: 0.6em; + max-width: 17px; + max-height: 17px; } .contactitem { - font-size: 40px + font-size: 40px; } -@media (max-width:500px) { - .contactitem { - font-size: 18px - } +@media (max-width: 500px) { + .contactitem { + font-size: 18px; + } } #status { - display: inline; - max-width: 100%; - max-height: 36px; - line-height: 0 + display: inline; + max-width: 100%; + max-height: 36px; + line-height: 0; } #timestamp { - font-size: 1.6vw + font-size: 1.6vw; } #artist { - color: #ffffff65; - font-size: 1vw + color: #ffffff65; + font-size: 1vw; } #myname { - margin-bottom: 0 + margin-bottom: 0; } -@media (min-width:1920px) { - #myname { - font-size: 30px - } +@media (min-width: 1920px) { + #myname { + font-size: 30px; + } - #status { - font-size: 25px - } + #status { + font-size: 25px; + } - #name { - font-size: 30px - } + #name { + font-size: 30px; + } - #timestamp { - font-size: 26px - } + #timestamp { + font-size: 26px; + } - #artist { - font-size: 15px - } + #artist { + font-size: 15px; + } - #upleft { - line-height: 1px - } + #upleft { + line-height: 1px; + } - .nameastat { - max-height: 102px; - max-width: 465px - } + .nameastat { + max-height: 102px; + max-width: 465px; + } } #large-display { - display: block + display: block; } -@media (min-width:2000px) { - #large-display { - display: none - } +@media (min-width: 2000px) { + #large-display { + display: none; + } } -@media (max-width:800px) { - #large-display,.desktop-display { - display: none - } +@media (max-width: 800px) { + #large-display, + .desktop-display { + display: none; + } + + .mobile-display { + display: block; + } +} + +footer { + position: relative; +} - .mobile-display { - display: block - } -} \ No newline at end of file +footer a { + position: absolute; + bottom: 0; + left: 0; + float: none; + height: 0; +} \ No newline at end of file