10179. Fact

It's been estimated that man have been riding horses for over 3,000 years.

10180. Fact

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.

10181. Fact

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.

10182. Fact

January is named for the Roman god Janus. Janus was a temple god who could look forward and backward at the same time

10183. Fact

Over 500 million gallons of Kool-Aid drink are consumed each year

10184. Alloy

Alloy : monel metal
Composition : cu (70%), ni (30%)
Use : for making alkali resistant containers.

10185. Fact

The term white chocolate is a misnomer. Under Fedaral Standards of Identity, real chocolate must contain chocolate liquor. White chocolate contains no chocolate liquor.

10186. Fact

Each Jelly Belly jelly belly bean has 4 calories

10187. Fact

The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material

10188. Fact

Tony Hawk has made more money from video games and tv commercials than from skateboarding.

10189. Fact

The study of twins is known as gemellology

10190. Fact

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

10191. Fact

It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

10192. Fact

St. Louis, Missouri was the first U.S. city to host the summer Olympics in 1904

10193. Fact

Federal law forbids recycling used eyeglasses in the United States.

10194. Fact

Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.

10195. Fact

The word limelight that is used in theatre to refer to the performers on the stage originated because before electricity was available lime was burned in a lamp, which created a white light that was directed at the performers

10196. Fact

A bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried to kill it

10197. Fact

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

10198. Fact

The largest insect egg belongs to the Malaysian jungle nymph, a sticklike insect, and measures about 1.3 centimeters long larger than a peanut! (Some insects, mainly mantises and cockroaches, lay egg cases that are larger, but they contain about 200 individual eggs.)

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