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).

1834. Fact

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

1835. Fact

J. Edgar Hoover liked to fire FBI agents whose palms were sweaty when shaking hands.

1836. Body Facts

Roundworm is the most common gut parasite in the world. It looks rather like an earthworm, and you can catch it by eating food contaminated with faeces.

1837. Fact

Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.

1838. Body Facts

Danish astronomer Tyco Brahe wore a metal nose because his own fell off after he suffered from the disease syphilis.

1839. Fact

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.

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