3455. Fact

U.S. bills are 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long, and are .0043 inches thick and weigh 1 gram

3456. Fact

The symbols used on playing cards were supposed to represent the four classes of men: hearts represented the clergy; spades (from the Spanish word espada, or sword) represented the warriors; clubs were originally leaves and represented the peasants; and citizens and merchants were recognized in the diamonds.

3457. Fact

In the 1920's, Q-Tips were invented by Leo Gerstenzang who got the idea after watching his wife clean their baby's ears with cotton stuck onto a toothpick.

3458. Fact

Babies are born without knee caps.

3459. Fact

The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.

3460. Fact

The name Santa Claus is a corruption of the Dutch dialect name for Saint Nicholas Sint Klass.

3461. Fact

Another word to refer to old age is senectitude

3462. Fact

BDSM is an acronym for bondage-dominance & sado-masochism.

3463. Fact

The average medium size piano has about 230 strings

3464. Fact

Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin.

3465. Fact

On average, 42,000 balls are used and 650 matches are played at the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament

3466. Fact

Ever wonder how Swiss cheese is made? As the cheese ferments, a bacterial action generates gas. As the gas is liberated, it bubbles through the cheese, leaving all those holes.

3467. Fact

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest.

3468. Fact

The food that is digested in your stomach is called chyme.

3469. Fact

Less than 3% of the water produced at a large municipal water treatment plant is used for drinking purposes.

3470. Fact

Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got the idea after noticing burrs were sticking to his pants after his regular walks through the woods, invented Velcro.

3471. Fact

A chameleon s tongue is twice the length of its body.

3472. Fact

The first email was sent out by Ray Tomlinson in 1971

3473. Fact

Bananas are one of the few fruits that ripen best off the plant. If left on the plant, the fruit splits open and the pulp has a cottony texture and flavor. Even in tropical growing areas, bananas for domestic consumption are cut green and stored in moist shady places to ripen slowly.

3474. Fact

When George Washington was elected President, there was a King in France, a Czar in Russia, an Emperor in China, and a Shogun in Japan. Only the office of President remained.

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