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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

10377. Fact
Serving ice cream on cherry pie was once illegal in Kansas

10378. Fact
Pregnant female polar bears will not eat for several months while resting in her den under the snow.

10379. Fact
Orca (killer) whales can grow to 30ft long.

10380. Fact
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

10381. Fact
In 1972, a gorilla by the name of Koko was taught ASL (American Sign Language) for the deaf. By the year 2000, the gorilla could understand approximately 2,000 English words

10382. Fact
On an American one-dollar bill there is a tiny owl in the upper-left-hand corner of the upper-right-hand 1 and a spider hidden in the front upper-right-hand corner.

10383. Fact
In 1958, the United States Coast Guard off western Greenland measured the tallest known iceberg at five hundred and fifty feet

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Planet : neptune
Distance(sun) (mi) : 2,800,000,000
Diameter (mi) : 306000
Mythology : god of the oceans
Discovered : 1846 (adams and le verrier)
Position : 8
Number of moons : 8
Surface material : frozen gas and ice
Length of a day, year (earth) : 16.1 hours, 164 y.      .. More >>
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