10314. Fact

Harley Proctor got the idea to name the soap Ivory while he was listening to a bible reading at a church in 1879

10315. Fact

For every human in the world there are one million ants

10316. Fact

By weight, the sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements.

10317. Fact

Many years ago, a fish was caught that was 33 inches long and seemed to be heavier than it should. When they cut the fish, fishermen found a full of bottle of ale inside it

10318. Fact

Local calls using a coin-operated phone in the U.S. cost only 5 cents everywhere until 1951.

10319. Fact

The USSR set off the largest nuclear explosion in history, detonating a 50 megaton bomb (2600 times the Hiroshima bomb) in an atmospheric test over the Novaya Zemla Islands, October 30 1961.

10320. Fact

The longest freshwater shoreline in the world is located in the state of Michigan

10321. Fact

The fastest running bird is the Ostrich, which has been clocked at 97.5 kilometres per hour

10322. Fact

The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers

10323. Fact

Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.

10324. Fact

On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.

10325. Fact

Decaffeinated coffee is not 100% caffeine free. When coffee is being decaffeinated, 2% of the caffeine still remains in it

10326. Fact

Women say that the part of a man's body that they admire the most is his buttocks.

10327. Fact

A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel

10328. Fact

An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime

10329. Fact

Some of the other names that were thought of for the dwarfs in the Disney movie Snow White were Awful, Dirty, Shifty, Hotsy, and Jumpy

10330. Fact

The Himalayas are the fastest growing mountains in the world. Already the tallest, the mountain range is growing at a rate of about a half an inch each year.

10331. Fact

The United States produces 3,145,892,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity every year. That's over three times the amount of the second-highest producing country, Russia.

10332. Fact

Ovaltine was originally called Ovamaltine. A clerical error forced the name to be changed when the manufacturer registered the name.

10333. Fact

Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.

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Nobel Prize : Chemistry
Year : 2009
Name : venkatraman ramakrishnan
Country : united kingdom
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Country : united states
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