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4163. Fact
Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage, and degree of ripeness when picked.

4164. Fact
The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.

4165. Fact
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

4166. Fact
A man's capacity to get and maintain an erection decreases gradually as he ages.

4167. Fact
The numbers " 72" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

4168. Fact
A newborn koala finds its way to the mother's pouch by following a trail of saliva.

4169. Fact
Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour

4170. Fact
The only U.S. president to be born on the fourth of July was Calvin Coolidge.

4171. Fact
A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.

4172. Fact
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

4173. Fact
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

4174. Fact
In the 20th century, over three million people have died from earthquakes

4175. Fact
Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.

4176. Fact
The most common injury in bowling is a sore thumb.

4177. Fact
French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

4178. Fact
Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.

4179. Fact
Bock's Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.

4180. Fact
Seven thousand years ago, the ancient Egyptians bowled on alleys similar to the ones in use today.

4181. Fact
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.

4182. Fact
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.

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