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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.

3291. Fact
In Delaware it is illegal to get married on a dare.

3292. Fact
More pollution is emitted from the average home compared to the average car.

3293. Fact
Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959

3294. Fact
Planet Venus is the only planet to spin counter-clockwise.

3295. Fact
Austria was the first country to use postcards.

3296. Fact
In 1997, the record for the highest skydive by a dog at 4,572 feet was established by a dog named Brutus

3297. Fact
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year

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