3643. Fact

The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

3644. Fact

In Nicholas County, West Virginia, no member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service.

3645. Fact

Dentyne gum was invented in 1899 by a druggist from New York named Franklin V. Canning

3646. Fact

The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand

3647. Fact

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

3648. Fact

Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08.

3649. Fact

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off .

3650. Fact

The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day

3651. Fact

All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.

3652. Fact

During World War II, bakers in the United States were ordered to stop selling sliced bread for the duration of the war on January 18, 1943. Only whole loaves were made available to the public. It was never explained how this action helped the war effort.

3653. Fact

The world record for rocking non-stop in a rocking chair is 480 hours held by Dennis Easterling, of Atlanta, Georgia

3654. Fact

The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.

3655. Fact

Edwin Armstrong invented FM radio in 1933. The first men to use FM radio to communicate with Earth from the moon's surface were named Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.

3656. Fact

Racehorses can wear out new horse shoes in one race.

3657. Fact

In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened

3658. Fact

If you get the recomended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.

3659. Fact

Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple.

3660. Fact

The term karaoke means empty orchestra in Japanese, and the karaoke machine was designed originally to provide backing tracks for solo cabaret performers.

3661. Fact

The Nile river is 6,690 kilometers long

3662. Fact

All snow crystals are hexagonal.

Invention
Invention : bomb, atomic
Year : 1945
Inventor : j. robert oppenheimer, et al.
Country : us.      .. More >>