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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.

728. Fact
If you never cut your hair and lived to be 77-years old, your hair could grow 690 miles long.

729. Fact
A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately one gram (0.035 ounces).

730. Fact
Hurricanes are always given names in order to make them easier to track. Their names always start with an "a" at the beginning of each year. In 1979, the women's movement pressured meteorologists to use both male and female names instead of just female names. Today, boy names are used on even numbered years and girl names on uneven ones.

731. Fact
Volvo means "i am rolling" in latin.

732. Fact
Production suffered a severe catastrophe one-day while filming diamonds are forever. Unexpectedly, all of the tropical fish in the aquarium died. The solution was to freeze the fish and suspend them in the tank from invisible thread that could be moved; making them appear alive.

733. Fact
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

734. Fact
An ice cream headache occurs when the coldness of the ice cream comes in contact with a spider-shaped web of nerves on the roof of the mouth. When the temperature of these nerves cools down, the brain believes that it's about to freeze and unnecessarily sends warm blood to the area. Instead of warming the area, it causes a headache.

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