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Fact #133

knowthisfact — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:16:38 +0000

101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.

Fact #132

knowthisfact — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:05:21 +0000

Since its introduction in February 1935, more than two hundred million Monopoly board games have been sold worldwide.

Fact #131

knowthisfact — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:27:12 +0000

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents.

Fact #130

knowthisfact — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:59:39 +0000

In China, people eat a bar of chocolate for every 1,000 chocolate bars eaten by the British

Fact #129

knowthisfact — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:21:02 +0000

In Greece, the climate is so warm that many of the cinemas do not even have roofs.

Fact #128

knowthisfact — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:53:27 +0000

Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster

Fact #127

knowthisfact — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:29:01 +0000

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

Fact #126

knowthisfact — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:40:24 +0000

Americans consumed more than twenty billion hot dogs in 2000.

Fact #125

knowthisfact — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:15:08 +0000

Krispy Kreme make five million doughnut a day

Fact #124

knowthisfact — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:10:53 +0000

Quality standards for pasta were set in the 13th century by the Pope

Fact #123

knowthisfact — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:04:29 +0000

In Avatar The Movie Avatars have five fingers and toes on their hands and feat, whereas the Na’vi (the natives) only have four. Avatars also have eyebrows, which the Na’vi lack.

Fact #122

knowthisfact — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:46:19 +0000

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 #121

knowthisfact — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:52:35 +0000

Only two people, John Hancock and Charles Thomson signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until five years later.

Fact #120

knowthisfact — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:01:53 +0000

32% of all land in the US is owned by the federal government.

Fact #119

knowthisfact — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:19:11 +0000

cat doors may have been invented by Sir Isaac Newton

Fact #118

knowthisfact — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:51:03 +0000

The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WWII 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 #117

knowthisfact — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:11:15 +0000

Derry Church, Pennsylvania, the home of Hershey’s Foods, was renamed Hershey in 1906.

Fact #116

knowthisfact — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:43:33 +0000

Remove bubblegum from hair. Rub a dollop of Jif Peanut Butter into the bubblegum.

Fact #115

knowthisfact — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:24:00 +0000

Psychiatrists have called gum chewing oral masturbation.

Fact #114

knowthisfact — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:46:39 +0000

Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company has over 50 percent of the U.S. gum market and is the number one chewing gum maker in the world.

Fact #113

knowthisfact — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:58:07 +0000

There’s a pillow that lights up to wake you up.

Fact #112

knowthisfact — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:25:56 +0000

Albert Einstein’s brain was stolen after he died

Fact #110

knowthisfact — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:12:10 +0000

A Life-size Edible Gummy Brain does exist!!

24 Amazing Facts!

knowthisfact — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:59:28 +0000

The shrimp’s heart is in its head.
You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.
Famous actor Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
In general, a man’s heart beats slower than a woman’s.
The country with highest divorce rate in the world is United States.
Cats are capable to hear ultrasound.
Dutch, on average are the tallest people in the world.
Natural pearls melt in vinegar.
An olive tree can live up to 1500 years.
There is no butter in buttermilk.
The earth is estimated to weigh approximately 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
Ants never sleep and that’s a fact.
The human brain is 80% water and 20% grey material.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
While peeling onions, you can chew gums to reduce your tears.
There are no less than 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess. Perhaps that’s why they call it a true mind game.
There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing.
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you are likely to chew food on your left side.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet.
The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

Taken From WOGK Blog

Fact #107

knowthisfact — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:08:18 +0000

A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years!!