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8776. Fact
Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.

8777. Fact
Lovemaking is a good aerobic exercise that improves the circulation and works the heart.

8778. Fact
On September 3, 1970, a hailstone was found in Coffeyville, Kansas that was eight inches in diameter and weighed 1.67 pounds.

8779. Fact
The motto of the American people, In God We Trust, was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

8780. Fact
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out

8781. Fact
The hump of a camel can weigh up to 35 kilograms

8782. Fact
The only animals that can naturally sleep on their backs are humans. No other animal actually does--apes usually sleep sitting up and leaning on something.

8783. Fact
Frisbee got its name from William Russel Frisbee, who was a pie baker. He used to sell his pies in a thin tin pan, which had Frisbee written on it. When Walter Frederick Morrison thought of the idea of making saucer like disks to play catch, he visited the campus of Yale and noticed people there were using the pie pan to play catch so he therefore renamed his invention to Frisbee

8784. Fact
In 1986, a drunk fan got into a pace car at Talladega Superspeedway, and started joyriding on the track in front of a nationwide audience. The police cruisers who had to chase him around the track were not amused when they caught and arrested him

8785. Fact
People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose

8786. Fact
The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com

8787. Fact
Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

8788. Fact
The total surface area of a pair of human lungs is equal to that of a tennis court.

8789. Fact
The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets in it.

8790. Fact
There is now an ATM at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has a winter population of two hundred people

8791. Fact
In 1281, the Mongol army of Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan but were ravaged by a hurricane that destroyed their fleet

8792. Fact
On average, Americans spend five times more of their time in their cars than they do on vacation

8793. Fact
Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze

8794. Fact
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana

8795. Fact
Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.

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