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.

3399. Fact

Japan is the world's leading importer of iron ore.

3400. Fact

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

3401. Fact

The Central African raffia palm is known to have the longest leaves. The leaves can measure up to 82.5 feet long.

3402. Fact

The first baseball caps were made of straw.

3403. Fact

Scientists have discovered that the mating call of the Mediterranean fruit fly has exactly the same frequency as lower F# on a harmonica.

3404. Fact

Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun.

3405. Fact

Texas was one of the first states to adopt capital punishment by lethal injection -in 1977.

3406. Fact

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

3407. Fact

Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers.

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