3271. Fact

It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minnesota.

3272. Fact

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth

3273. Fact

Morphine was given its name in 1803 by the discoverer, a 20 year old German pharmacist named Friedrich Saturner. He named it after Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.

3274. Fact

Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them

3275. Fact

The actor who played the T-1000 in Terminator 2 (Robert Patrick) and the lead singer of Filter are brothers

3276. Fact

Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935.

3277. Fact

¥ The number of cars on the planet is increasing three times faster than the population growth

3278. Fact

Great Britain was the first country to issue stamps in 1840.

3279. Fact

Every second there are 418 Kit Kat fingers eaten in the world

3280. Fact

A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

3281. Fact

A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.

3282. Fact

Mass murderer Charles Manson recorded an album titled Lie.

3283. Fact

The human heart weighs less than a pound

3284. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : dr. b. c. roy
physician, politician, former chief minister of west bengal
Year : 1961
Region : west bengal.

3285. Fact

The average cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven is $6,400.

3286. Fact

The smallest will ever written was 3.8 cm in diameter. It had 40 words written on it and was signed by two witnesses

3287. Fact

A Michigan law states that a wife's hair legally belongs to her husband.

3288. Fact

The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17

3289. Fact

Bees kill more people a year than sharks do.

3290. Fact

The Hubble telescope is so powerful that it is like pointing a beam of light at a dime that is two hundred miles away.

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