4447. Fact

Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week

4448. Fact

Deliberately infecting people with malaria has been used to cure different viral infections. The high fever will strengthen the immune system and fight the virus. In recent times this has been considered as a treatment to HIV

4449. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : sir c. v. raman
nobel-prize winning physicist
Year : 1954
Region : tamil nadu.

4450. Fact

The designer of the Statue of Liberty, French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, used his wife as the model for the body and his mother as the model for the face.

4451. Fact

A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.

4452. Fact

The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965

4453. Fact

Centuries ago in India, a person could get their nose chopped off for breaking the law

4454. Fact

Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.

4455. Fact

When the are in danger, kangaroos will beat the ground loudly with their hind feet

4456. Fact

Armadillos can be housebroken

4457. Fact

About 85% or product warning labels on household products are inadequate

4458. Fact

The average person can live for eleven days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit.

4459. Fact

Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper was so relaxed on the morning of his launch into space in May 1963 that he fell asleep in his space capsule while waiting for blastoff.

4460. Fact

Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald's.

4461. Fact

The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.

4462. Bharat Ratna

Bharat Ratna : chakravarti rajagopalachari
last governor-general, freedom fighter.
Year : 1954
Region : tamil nadu.

4463. Fact

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

4464. Fact

¥ The only Oscar statuette ever made of wood was presented to Edgar Bergen in 1938 for his outstanding comic creation, his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.

4465. Fact

Adult Northwestern American Grizzly Bears can bite through steel as thick as one half inch.

4466. Fact

The only words in the English language to contain two "U's" back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.

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