3722. Fact

Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.

3723. Fact

Aztec emperor Montezuma had nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant plenty of excrement.

3724. Fact

Of the estimated 162 million land-based telephones in the U.S., 25 million have unlisted numbers.

3725. Fact

In 1903, there were originally only eight Crayola crayons in a box and they sold for five cents

3726. Fact

Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.

3727. Fact

Iron weighs more after it rusts.

3728. Fact

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.

3729. Fact

The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.

3730. Fact

A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away.

3731. Fact

Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999

3732. Fact

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's".

3733. Fact

'Vodka'is Russian for 'little water'.

3734. Fact

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.

3735. Fact

In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.

3736. Fact

In Italy, espresso is considered so essential to daily life that the price is regulated by the government.

3737. Fact

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise

3738. Fact

The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

3739. Fact

Your nose smells best when you are about 10 years old.

3740. Fact

More than 20,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing in action in the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862. This was the bloodiest one-day fight during the Civil War.

3741. Fact

The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.

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