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.

735. Fact

The face of the alien e.t in the film with the same name, was modelled after the poet carl sandburg, the physicist albert einstein and a pug.

736. Fact

The plane buddy holly crashed in was named "american pie". Don mclean adopted this name for a song he released a couple of years later.

737. Fact

The sloth moves so slow algae can grow unhinderred on it. That is why its skin is sometimes green.

738. Fact

It's not only the tiger's fur that is striped. The skin is striped as well.

739. Fact

The expression "checkmate" comes from the arabic expression "shah mat", which means "the king is dead".

740. Fact

Do you think "big ben" is a tower or a clock face? Well, both are wrong guesses. This well-known name actually belongs to the bell that sounds every hour behind the famous clock face in london, england.

741. Fact

When the north american possum is threatened, it not only plays dead to escape the danger, it also faints from fear!

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