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708. Fact
One of the elements in dynamite is peanuts.

709. Fact
The five different colored rings, on the olympic flag, symbolize the union of the five continents and that the olymic games shall be a meeting place for athletes from around the world. At least one color of each ring can be found on every world flag.

710. Fact
Sean connery, the first james bond, won the mr. Universe contest before he became an actor.

711. Fact
A cat has thirty-two muscles in each ear.

712. Fact
Did you think that the monkeys in the zoo were picking fleas off each other? Wrong; they are in fact grooming for salty skin dander.

713. Fact
When you're using the computer keyboard, your left hand does 56% of the typing.

714. Fact
The actual meaning of the word turkey is "cock from calicut".

715. Fact
The zipper would not have become the success it did if it hadn't been for world war one. Originally, it wasn't used on clothing but on money belts that the amercian solders brought to europe.

716. Fact
Many hamsters blink only one eye at a time.

717. Fact
The pacemaker was invented in the 1950's by sweden's rune elmqvist at the pacesetter company.

718. Fact
The chance of surviving a plane crash is better in seats found in the back of a plane where you have the best protection during take offs and landings. This is when the risk of an accident is at its greatest.

719. Fact
If barbie had been a real human being, her measurements would have been 97-58-97.

720. Fact
It's often warmer in cities than in the countryside. The reason being asphalt absorbs more energy from the sun than grass, trees and plants do.

721. Fact
The longest border between two states in europe is the border between sweden and norway. It's 1,000 miles long.

722. Fact
John rhys-davies, who played gimli the dwarf in the three lord of the rings movies had a tough time during filming. His armament weighed 66 pounds and he was also allergic to the prosthetic glue.

723. Fact
At first, cinderella's shoes were made of leather but when the folktale was written down in the 16th century, the french words "vair" and "verre" were mixed up. The first means skin and the latter means glass.

724. Fact
On average, a hurricane produces more energy than all of the world's power plants put together.

725. Fact
In 1899, the eiffel tower was built by gustave eiffel for the paris exhibition and was suppose to be demolished afterwards.

726. Fact
One day - the time it takes our planet to rotate around its axis - would take only 9 hours and 55 minutes on the planet jupiter.

727. Fact
The african ostrich is not only the largest bird in the worldit also lays the largest eggs. On average, one egg weighs 2 to 4 pounds. That's equivalent to the weight of 45 normal-sized eggs.

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