3671. Fact

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

3672. Fact

Lightning strikes 6,000 times every minute on the entire planet

3673. Fact

A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.

3674. Fact

It takes a sperm about 1 hour to swim 6 inches.

3675. Fact

The average bank teller loses about $250 every year

3676. Fact

On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.

3677. Fact

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testiclesthat s where the word testimony comes from.

3678. Fact

Writing in ancient Greece hadnospacebetweenthewords.

3679. Fact

The phrase rule of thumb is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

3680. Fact

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits

3681. Fact

There is a cemetery town in California named Colma. Concerns about the public health, crime, and the need for space forced the city of San Francisco to outlaw burials in 1902. The city of Colma, which is five miles south of San Francisco, was established to bury the dead. The ratio of dead to living people is 750 to 1

3682. Fact

If a substance is burned and all of the results of its burning (smoke, ash, soot and gas) are captured and weighed, they will be a little heavier than the original substance because they have been combined with oxygen.

3683. Fact

In the Netherlands, there are special traffic lanes for bicycles. There are approximately 17,000 kms of cycle lanes with special bicycle traffic lights.

3684. Fact

Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.

3685. Fact

In 1924, Pope Urban VIII threatened to excommunicate snuff users.

3686. Fact

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

3687. Fact

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

3688. Fact

If the gross for "Gone With the Wind" were to be adjusted to allow for inflation in the period since its release, it would be regarded as the most successful film ever.

3689. Fact

Moscow was founded in 1147 by Yury Dolgoruky

3690. Fact

The term Y2K was invented by David Eddie in June 1995 through the email.

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