8871. Fact

Every second, 630 steel cans are recycled

8872. Fact

The pet ferret was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.

8873. Fact

Soldiers disease' is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

8874. Fact

The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

8875. Fact

Shipwreck Kelly (1885-1952) set many flagpole-sitting records. He sat for 49 days on one flagpole. He once estimated that he spent a total of over 20,000 hours sitting on flagpoles. Flagpole sitting was a craze started in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.

8876. Fact

Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while watching T.V

8877. Fact

Most lipstick contains fish scales

8878. Fact

Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.

8879. Fact

Every three seconds a baby is born somewhere in the world

8880. Fact

The first Ford cars used Dodge engines.

8881. Fact

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

8882. Fact

The dome on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, conceals a billiards room. In Jefferson's day, billiards were illegal in Virginia.

8883. Fact

Detroit, Michigan has more registered bowlers than any other city in the USA

8884. Fact

There are 86,400 seconds in day.

8885. Fact

Pilgrims did not eat with forks. They only used spoons, knives and their fingers.

8886. Fact

World s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.

8887. Fact

500,000 tons of dog excrement are dumped annually on the streets of Paris

8888. Fact

Kit Kat chocolate bar was introduced to the market in 1935

8889. Fact

In Johannesburg, the average car will be involved in an accident once every four years.

8890. Fact

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do

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