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2403. Fact
The last dodo bird died in 1681.

2404. Fact
The last time American Green cards were actually green was 1964.

2405. Fact
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile.

2406. Fact
The lead singer of The Knack, famous for "My Sharona," and Jack Kevorkian's lead defense attorney are brothers, Doug & Jeffrey Feiger.

2407. Fact
The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.

2408. Fact
The letter "W" is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have just one syllable – it has three.

2409. Fact
The letter J does not appear ANYWHERE in the periodic table of elements.

2410. Fact
The letters in the abbreviation e.g. stand for exempli gratia – a Latin term meaning "for example."

2411. Fact
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.

2412. Fact
The life span of a taste bud is ten days.

2413. Fact
The lining of your digestive system is shed every 3 days.

2414. Bharat Ratna
Bharat Ratna : dhondo keshav karve
educationist, social reformer
Year : 1958
Region : maharashtra.

2415. Fact
The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive-so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

2416. Fact
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2417. Fact
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill.

2418. Fact
The longest recorded lifespan of a camel was 35 years, 5 months

2419. Fact
The longest recorded lifespan of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.

2420. Fact
The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California...

2421. Fact
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

2422. Fact
The longest word that can be typed solely with the left hand is stewardess

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