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3210. Fact
Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.
3211. Fact
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
3212. Fact
Sheep can recognize other sheep from pictures.
3213. Fact
Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
3216. Fact
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
3217. Fact
The green stuff on the occasional freak potato chip is chlorophyll.
3218. Fact
Blue eyes are the most sensitive to light, dark brown the least sensitive.
3219. Fact
The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years
3220. Fact
In 1982, Larry Walters tied 24 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet
3221. Fact
The maximum length allowed for a baseball bat in the major leagues is 42 inches.
3222. Fact
Vanilla is the extract of fermented and dried pods of several species of orchids.
3223. Fact
Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935
3224. Fact
A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.
3225. Fact
The word honcho comes from a Japanese word meaning squad leader and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.
3226. Fact
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites
3227. Fact
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
3228. Fact
On average, there is about three molecules of ozone for every 10 million air molecules.
3229. Fact
Over 80% of professional boxers have suffered brain damage.
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Terminology :
numerology : the study of numbers. the study of the date and year of one's birth and to determine the influence on one's future life.
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