2554. Fact

The typical U.S. 18-year-old has spent 11,000 hours in school and 18,000 hours watching TV.

2555. Fact

The U.S. Army accidentally ordered an 82 year supply of freeze-dried tuna salad mix for troops in Europe.

2556. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : pandit ravi shankar
classical sitar player
Year : 1999
Region : uttar pradesh.

2557. Fact

The U.S. founding fathers' name for the American Revolution was 'The War with Britain'.

2558. Fact

The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.

2559. Fact

The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.

2560. Fact

The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.

2561. Fact

The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.

2562. Fact

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

2563. Fact

The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

2564. Fact

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

2565. Fact

The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.

2566. Fact

The United States has the highest minimum drinking age in the world.

2567. Fact

The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat.

2568. Fact

The universally popular Hershey bar was used overseas during World War II as currency.

2569. Fact

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones.

2570. Fact

The US interstate highway system requires that one mile in every five be straight. These straight sections function as airstrips in times of war and other emergencies.

2571. Fact

The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.

2572. Fact

The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.

2573. Fact

The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean

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