4690. Fact

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

4691. Fact

A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows.

4692. Fact

The 1st televised presidential debate was September 26, 1960, between Nixon and Kennedy.

4693. Fact

The music band UB40 got its name from an unemployment form in England

4694. Fact

Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded; sounds that have more energy than jet plane noise.

4695. Fact

It is impossible to land on planet Jupiter because scientists believe that below all the gases and liquid there is a center [core] which is made up of small ball of pressurized iron, but it is impossible to tell for sure.

4696. Fact

William Shatner is credited for being the first person on TV to say hell as well as to have the first inter-racial kiss (with Nichelle Nichols), both in episodes of Star Trek.

4697. Fact

The word karate means empty hand.

4698. Fact

During Hell Week (the most grueling portion of training) the trainees get 4 hours of sleep.

4699. Animal Facts

The geographic tree frog can change its eyes from brown to patterned to help it camouflage itself in trees.

4700. Animal Facts

Crocodiles carry their young around in their mouths.

4701. Fact

Elvis Presley got a 'C'in his eighth grade music class.

4702. Fact

One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.

4703. Fact

Ketchup was once sold as a patented medicine. In the 1830s it was marketed in the United States as Dr. Miles's Compound Extract of Tomato.

4704. Fact

Irish cream and Hazelnut are the most popular whole bean coffee flavorings.

4705. Fact

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe.

4706. Fact

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

4707. Fact

Vaseline was created by Robert Chesebrough in 1870. He developed it after visiting Titusville, PA in 1859. While there he noticed that workers were treating cuts and burns with grease that accumulated on drill rods from the oil fields.

4708. Fact

The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.

4709. Fact

Urophobia is the fear of urine or urinating

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