6988. Fact

The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

6989. Fact

9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

6990. Fact

Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.

6991. Fact

The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189

6992. Fact

It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.

6993. Fact

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

6994. Fact

Another name for your pinky finger is Wanus

6995. Fact

You blink about 25,000 times a day.

6996. Fact

Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney studios for use in the movie Fantasia.

6997. Fact

The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.

6998. Fact

The world's largest palace is the Imperial palace in the heart of Peking,

6999. Animal Facts

When an opossum is threatened, it plays dead – it lies still, its tongue hanging out, excretes faeces on itself and oozes green slime that smells of rotting flesh.

7000. Fact

Manta Rays have no external organs for urination, therefore they release the urine from their pores.

7001. Fact

There are no geese in the southern hemisphere.

7002. Fact

Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance

7003. Fact

It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate, even frequent daily dietary intake, had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.

7004. Fact

In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.

7005. Fact

Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.

7006. 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

7007. Fact

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body

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