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7583. Fact
There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection

7584. Fact
Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).

7585. Fact
A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist

7586. Fact
In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen (Cymbeline), with 591 lines.

7587. Fact
Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."

7588. Fact
The correct name for the capital city of Thailand is rung Thep, and it's been this way for over 130 years. Foreigners persist on calling it Bangkok.

7589. Fact
Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water

7590. Fact
Coffee trees are self-pollinating.

7591. Fact
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.

7592. Fact
The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple.

7593. Fact
The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

7594. Fact
People who studies laughter are called a gelotologists.

7595. Fact
The world's first singing commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal. The four male singers, eventually known as the Wheaties Quartet, sang the jingle.

7596. Fact
On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

7597. Fact
May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months

7598. Fact
In a typical season, major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.

7599. Fact
Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars

7600. Fact
Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.

7601. Fact
A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder

7602. Fact
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)

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