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

8891. Fact

Freshens the air in your home. Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang one in the closet.

8892. Fact

Peanuts are salted in the shell by boiling them in a heavily salted solution, then allowing them to dry.

8893. Fact

The state that grows the most cranberries is Wisconsin. More than 300 million pounds of cranberries are grown in Wisconsin

8894. Fact

The 1st performance of Handel's Messiah was on April 13, 1742 at the New Music rooms in Fishamble St., Dublin. Because of the demand for space, the men were asked not to wear their swords and the ladies not to wear hooped skirts.

8895. Fact

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb

8896. Fact

During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.

8897. Fact

If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

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