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10357. Fact
French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon
10358. Fact
Top corporate executives take separate planes in case one crashes.
10359. Fact
Battle Creek, Michigan is referred to as the Cereal Bowl of America. The city produces the most breakfast cereals than any other city in the world
10361. Fact
Americans write approximately 50 billion checks a year making it the second most frequent payment method used after cash
10362. Fact
A small drip from a faucet can waste up to 50 gallons of water daily, which is enough water to run a dishwasher twice on a full cycle
10363. Fact
Warren G. Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska.
10364. Fact
There are about 5,000,000,000 years of sunlight left
10365. Fact
Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night.
10366. Fact
It takes a ton of water to make a pound of refined sugar.
10367. Fact
William Shakespeare used a vocabulary of 29,066 different words. By way of comparison, the average person uses about 8,000 different words.
10368. Fact
The all-time most nominated Grammy artist with 77 nominations is Quincy Jones
10369. Fact
Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension.
10370. Fact
Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
10371. Fact
The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose
10372. Fact
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America (not China), in 1918, by Charles Jung
10373. Fact
It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
10374. Fact
Rutgers beat Princeton 6-4 in the first ever college football game. At the time, a touchdown was worth only two points.
10375. Fact
Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
10376. Fact
The thickness of the Arctic ice sheet is on average 10 feet. There are some areas that are thick as 65 feet
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