1869. Fact

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

1870. Fact

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

1871. Fact

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.

1872. Fact

Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.

1873. Fact

Levi Strauss didn’t call them jeans. He called them “waist overalls”.

1874. Fact

Li Hung-chang is the father of Chop Suey

1875. Fact

Life on Earth dates back 3.8 billion years.

1876. Fact

Lightning strikes somewhere about 6,000 times per second on Earth.

1877. Fact

Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!

1878. Fact

Linen is actually stronger when wet.

1879. Fact

Linen, tortoiseshell, leather, silk, sheep gut.

1880. Fact

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of 'Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.'

1881. Fact

Los Angeles' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Pornciuncula.

1882. Fact

Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "L.A."

1883. Fact

Louisiana is the only state that grows in land area every year (Due to alluvial deposits from the Mississippi River).

1884. Fact

Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.

1885. Fact

Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000-ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.

1886. Fact

Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida!

1887. Fact

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

1888. Fact

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

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