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6262. Fact
Hannibal, who was a soldier, had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome

6263. Animal Facts
The job of guard termites is to defend the termite nest or mound. Sometimes they explode in their efforts to deter attackers.

6264. Fact
The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis

6265. Fact
Marseilles is the oldest city in France. It was settled in about 6,000 B.C. by Ionian Greeks, who called it Massilia.

6266. Fact
Researchers have developed odourless socks. The sock fabric is made by attaching molecules that contain chlorine called halamines to textile fibers

6267. Fact
Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods.

6268. Fact
A human's scent membrane in the nose is about the size of a postage stamp. A dog's is about the size of a handkerchief.

6269. Fact
Trees that are near street lights do not shed their leaves as fast as a tree that is in the country

6270. Fact
The largest group viewing online pornography is ages 12 to 17.

6271. Fact
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

6272. Fact
Hippopotamuses actually sweat blood. Their skin contains a great amount of an oily substance that exudes from the pores, and when the beast perspires a little blood gets mixed in.

6273. Fact
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each year. Most of them are children.

6274. Fact
During World War II, Kit Kat was unavailable due to milk shortages, so the chocolate bar was made without milk

6275. 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

6276. Fact
The Apollo 11 plaque left on the Moon says, Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. / WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.

6277. Fact
The country with the highest consumption of candy at 29.5 pounds annually per person is Denmark

6278. Animal Facts
A duckbilled platypus can stuff its cheek pouches with 600 worms.

6279. Fact
Manhattan Island from end to end is less than one million inches long.

6280. 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

6281. Fact
Hans Christian Anderson, creater of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had errors

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