2688. Fact

Until President Kennedy was killed, it wasn't a federal crime to assassinate the President.

2689. Fact

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

2690. Fact

Until the year 1920, Canada was planning on invading the United States.

2691. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : morarji desai
former prime minister, freedom fighter
Year : 1991
Region : gujarat.

2692. Fact

Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.

2693. Fact

Uranus's orbital axis is tilted 90°

2694. Fact

Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.

2695. Fact

Vegetarians fart more, but their's smell less.

2696. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : sardar vallabhbhai patel
posthumous, freedom fighter, first home minister of india
Year : 1991
Region : gujarat.

2697. Fact

'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.

2698. Fact

Vultures fly without flapping their wings.

2699. Fact

WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!

2700. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : rajiv gandhi
posthumous, former prime minister
Year : 1991
Region : new delhi.

2701. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : nelson mandela
second non-citizen and first non-indian, leader of anti-apartheid movement
Year : 1990
Region : south africa.

2702. Fact

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents!

2703. Fact

We will have four consecutive full moons making two blue moons in 1999 (January 2 and 31, March 2 and 31.) The only other time it happened this century was in 1915 (January 1 and 31, March 1 and 31.)

2704. Fact

weatherman Willard Scott was the first original Ronald Mcdonald

2705. Fact

Wettest city in the U.S.; Quillayute, Wahington. Driest: Yuma, Arizona.

2706. Fact

Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.

2707. Fact

What five digit number, when multiplied by the number 4, is the same number with the digits in reverse order? 21978; 21978 x 4 = 87912.

Discovery
Electro-Cardiograph
Discoverer/Inventor : willem einthoven (netherlands)
Year : 1903      .. More >>