4505. Fact

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

4506. Fact

India has the most post offices of any country with 280,181.

4507. Fact

In playing poker, there is one chance in 500 of drawing a flush.

4508. Fact

In Spit Bergen, Norway, at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months.

4509. Fact

The complete skin covering of the body measures about 20 sq. feet.

4510. Fact

Just one in three consumers pays off his or her credit card bill every month.

4511. Fact

Of Chief Executives, only Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of a President.

4512. Fact

On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the American flag is flying over the Parliament Building.

4513. Fact

Your home is ten times more likely to have a fire than be burglarized.

4514. Fact

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.

4515. Fact

Former President Cleveland defeated incumbent Benjamin Harrison in 1892, becoming the first (and, to date, only) chief executive to win non-consecutive terms to the White House.

4516. Fact

Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.

4517. Fact

Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

4518. Fact

The f-word is used 257 times in the movie Pulp Fiction.

4519. Fact

In the late 19th century the Supreme Court of the United States legally declarded the tomato a vegetable.

4520. Fact

Sharks have upper and lower eyelids, but they do not blink

4521. Fact

More water flows over Niagara Falls every year than any other falls on earth.

4522. Fact

In Albuquerque, New Mexico it is illegal for cab drivers to reach out and pull potential customers into their cabs.

4523. Fact

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

4524. Fact

Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day

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