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1814. Fact
It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

1815. Fact
It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.

1816. Fact
It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound

1817. Fact
It takes Several hundred thousand years for newly made photons (light) to travel from the core of the sun to it's surface.

1818. Fact
It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.

1819. Fact
It takes twelve ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil.

1820. Fact
It takes up to four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.

1821. Fact
It took 20,000 men 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.

1822. Body Facts
Sometimes, if a person's eye comes out of its socket in an accident and dangles on their cheek, they can push it back in with no lasting ill effects – don't try it at home!

1823. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

1824. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. The frog then uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back d

1825. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back

1826. Fact
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.

1827. Fact
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

1828. Fact
It’s a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister’s daughter.

1829. Fact
It's a common practice in southern India for a man to marry his elder sister's daughter.

1830. Fact
It's against the law to burp or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska.

1831. Fact
It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas.

1832. Fact
It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

1833. Body Facts
If you laid out the airways in your lungs in a long line they would stretch over 2,400 kilometres (1,500 miles).

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Including the 2000 World Series, there have been only three meetings between teams from the same city: 1906 (Cubs vs. White Sox), 1944 (Cardinals vs. Browns) and 2000 (Mets vs. Yankees).      .. More >>
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