10393. Fact

X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.

10394. Fact

Pilgrims did not eat potatoes for Thanksgiving as they thought they were poisonous

10395. Fact

The Academy Award was rumored to have gotten its nickname of Oscar for its resemblance to a film librarian's Uncle Oscar.

10396. Fact

The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.

10397. Fact

An average adult produces about half a litre of flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen occurrences of flatulence a day

10398. Fact

There are approximately 2000 thunderstorms that are active at the same time which results in 100 lightning flashes a second.

10399. Fact

Prevents musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.

10400. Fact

There are more coffee drug addicts in the US than drug addicts of any other kind.

10401. Fact

Automobile building is the largest manufacturing industry in the world.

10402. Fact

The Pacific Ocean fills nearly a complete hemisphere of the earth's surface.

10403. Aircraft id

Aircraft id mark :
Pakistan : ap

10404. Fact

Sylvia Plath was a famous poet who killed herself at age thirty-one by sticking her head into a gas oven

10405. Fact

The driest place on earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile

10406. Fact

Poor whites in Florida and Georgia are called crackers. They got the name from their principal staple food, cracked corn. Another theory states that the name comes from the days when they would drive cattle southward using the crack of their bullwhips to keep the animals in line and moving.

10407. Fact

Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes

10408. Fact

There are no clocks or windows in any casino.

10409. Fact

Bees can communicate with other bees by dancing. Their dance can alert other bees as to which direction and the distance nectar and pollen is located

10410. Fact

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.

10411. Fact

In 1865 opium was grown in the state of Virginia and a product was distilled from it that yielded 4 percent morphine. In 1867 it was grown in Tennessee: six years later it was cultivated in Kentucky. During these years opium, marijuana, and cocaine could be purchased legally over the counter from any druggist.

10412. Fact

A Connecticut Toy maker, Herobuilders, sells action figures of President George W. Bush, Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which are all major figures tied to the September 11, 2001 WTC attacks

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