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.

3475. Fact

There are more than 40 million Americans that have chronic halitosis, which is bad breath that never goes away

3476. Fact

Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.

3477. Fact

Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.

3478. Fact

There are about 6,800 languages in the world

3479. Fact

The first recipe for a lasagna type dish was found to be from a British cookbook in the 14th century. Therefore, Italians were not the first ones to come up with the popular dish as believed

3480. Fact

Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.

3481. Fact

Mexico City is the oldest capital city in the Americas.

3482. Fact

Until the 1870s, baseball was played without the use of gloves.

3483. Fact

In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.

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