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3070. Fact
It would take 15,840,000 rolls of wallpaper to cover the Great Wall of China.

3071. Fact
President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents.

3072. Fact
Mark Twain was the first to have written a novel [Tom Sawyer] on a typewriter.

3073. Fact
Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Regan.

3074. Fact
If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world.

3075. Fact
Musk is extracted from the bottom of a civet, and is used as an ingredient to make perfumes.

3076. Fact
The 1st US zoo was built in Philadelphia, PA, in 1876.

3077. Fact
The name of the first airplane flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers, on December 17, 1903, was Bird of Prey.

3078. Fact
Dana Carvey changed his name to Tom for 2 weeks because he thought Dana was a girl's name.

3079. Fact
Apples are more effecient than caffeine for waking you up in the morning.

3080. Fact
The first television broadcast of the Oscars took place in 1953, hosted by Bob Hope on NBC

3081. Fact
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a 6 foot-tall human jumping the length of 7 football fields

3082. Fact
The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.

3083. Fact
Red is the most popular car color in the U.S.

3084. Fact
Heinz first started making ketchup in 1876 and the recipe has remained the same ever since

3085. Fact
Polar bears can smell seal from 20 miles away

3086. Fact
James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang

3087. Fact
The 1912 Olympics was the last Olympics that gave out gold medals that were made entirely out of gold

3088. Fact
You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.

3089. Fact
The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle

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