4255. Fact

What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.

4256. Fact

Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer

4257. Fact

China has more English speakers than the United States

4258. Fact

A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.

4259. Fact

All of the proceeds from James Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.

4260. Fact

Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell

4261. Fact

In Holland, you can be fined for not using a shopping basket at a grocery store.

4262. Fact

On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag

4263. Fact

Gorilla gorilla gorilla is the scientific name for the animal gorilla

4264. Fact

Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears

4265. Fact

The average life span of a peasant during the medieval ages was 25 years.

4266. Fact

When a giraffe is born, it has to fall around six feet to the ground.

4267. Fact

There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon

4268. Fact

The first known heart medicine was discovered in an English garden. In 1799, physician John Ferriar noted the effect of dried leaves of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, on heart action. Still used in heart medications, digitalis slows the pulse and increases the force of heart contractions and the amount of b lood pumped per heartbeat.

4269. Fact

In 24 hrs. an average healthy human breathes 23,000 times.

4270. Fact

Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.

4271. Fact

There is enough concrete in the Hoover Dam to pave a two lane highway from San Francisco to New York

4272. Fact

President Eisenhower banished squirrels from the grounds because they were ruining the green.

4273. Fact

Forty percent of McDonald's profits comes from the sale of Happy Meals.

4274. Fact

The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.

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