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.

8796. Fact

Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three years

8797. Fact

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".

8798. Fact

Perfume contains ethyl alcohol and 25% fragrant oils. Cologne is cheaper to produce and to purchase because the oil content in cologne is only 3%. Cologne was named for the German city in which it was first produced. The original formula combined alcohol, lemon spirits, orange bitters and mint oil.

8799. Fact

The name Grey Poupon used for mustard comes from two people: Maurice Grey and Auguste Poupon. Grey was the inventor of a machine that mass produced fine textured mustard, and Poupon was an already established maker of mustard. In 1886 the Grey-Poupon firm was formed

8800. Fact

The famous Christmas song Jingle Bells was written for a Thanksgiving program in 1857 by James Pierpont. At the time, the song was called The One-Horse Open Sleigh.

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