3379. Fact

The amount of aluminum that Americans throw out in three months is enough to rebuild all American commercial planes

3380. Fact

In 1976, fourteen banks merged to form a bank credit card called Mastercharge. This was later renamed to what is now know as Mastercard.

3381. Fact

When the temperature drops, the eyesight reaction time of insects (like the dragonfly and some animals like tortoises) decrease and thats why they can be caught early in the morning or at night by predators like birds whose eyesight reaction times are unaffected by temperature.

3382. Fact

Pineapples were first called anana, which is Caribbean for excellent fruit.

3383. Fact

Each year 96 billion pounds of food is wasted in the U.S

3384. Fact

Irving Berlin has never learned to read music or to write it. He hums or sings his songs to a secretary, who takes them down in musical notation.

3385. Fact

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?.

3386. Fact

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

3387. Fact

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

3388. Fact

The setting sun is redder than the rising sun because the air at the end of the day is generally dustier than it is at the beginning of the day.

3389. Fact

Seeing eye dogs are color blind but can still read stop lights by the position of the 'on' light

3390. Fact

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

3391. Fact

The U.S. army packs Tabasco pepper sauce in every ration kit that they give to soldiers.

3392. Fact

Eskimos don't gamble.

3393. Fact

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Relative to size)

3394. Fact

Mussolini dodged the Italian draft.

3395. Fact

During the time of Peter the Great, any Russian who wore a beard was required to pay a special tax.

3396. Fact

One of the most dangerous insect in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world

3397. Fact

Among primitive people the soul normally is said to escape through the mouth or nose. In the Celebes, when a person is very sick, his friends will often attach fish hooks in certain places. If the soul tries to escape, it gets hooked.

3398. Fact

The largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, it measures three and a half miles in diameter.

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