4392. Fact

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands

4393. Fact

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

4394. Fact

Hard Bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

4395. Fact

Books on religion outnumbered works of fiction by a 2 to 1 margin in 1870 England. Sixteen years later, novels surpassed religious works.

4396. Fact

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

4397. Fact

Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.

4398. Fact

The word 'pixel' is a contraction of either 'picture cell' or 'picture element'.

4399. Fact

The first perfect game in baseball history was achieved by John Lee Richmond on June 12, 1880.

4400. Fact

Lightning puts 10,000,000 tons of nitrogen into the earth each year.

4401. Fact

The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr. Potato Head. Introduced in 1952.

4402. Fact

The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in

4403. Fact

Bees have five eyes.

4404. Fact

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the western Pacific.

4405. Fact

The Popsicle was invented by 11 year-old Frank Epperson in 1905. He left his drink outside with a stir stick in it and he noticed that it had frozen. He applied for a patent in 1923 and named it Epsicle. The name was later changed to Popsicle

4406. Fact

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C

4407. Fact

Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.

4408. Fact

In a six-pack of soda the cans cost more to make than the drink.

4409. Fact

Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.

4410. Fact

The average person laughs 13 times a day.

4411. Fact

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

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The world's tallest mountains, the Himalayas, are also the fastest growing. Their growth about half an inch a year is caused by the pressure exerted by two of Earth's continental plates (the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate) pushing against one another.      .. More >>