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4584. Fact
The Baltimore Orioles opened the 1988 baseball season by losing the first 21 games and 107 altogether for the entire season
4585. Fact
In 1929, the Coca-Cola slogan was The Pause That Refreshes.
4586. Fact
Squirrels eat through 40,000 pine cones a year.
4587. Fact
If you are having problems remembering the planets in their correct order, just remember this sentance My very educated mother justed served us nine pickles, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupitor, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
4589. Fact
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
4590. Fact
Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
4591. Fact
If you lock your knee while standing long enough, you will pass out.
4592. Fact
The Food and Drug Administration says the most common injury from cosmetics comes from scratching the eye with a mascara wand
4594. Fact
Greece and Australia are the only countries to participate in all of the modern Olympics.
4595. Fact
If all the insects in the world were put on a scale, they would out weigh all creatures
4596. Fact
Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore, died a few months before the project was completed. It took him 14 years.
4597. Fact
Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food
4598. Fact
Only two in one thousand diamonds are considered truly colorless.
4599. Fact
The only member of the British House of Commons who is not allowed to speak is the man called the Speaker of the House.
4600. Fact
Virginia law forbids bathtubs in the house; tubs must be kept in the yard.
4601. Fact
Penguins feathers are covered in fat, which helps keep them warm.
4602. Fact
The word maverick came into use after Samuel Maverick, a Texan refused to brand his cattle. Eventually any unbranded calf became known as a Maverick.
4603. Fact
The average per capita consumption of soap, in all of its uses, in the United States is about forty pounds per year.
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The difference between AM and FM radio is that FM is line-of-sight, while AM bounces off the atmosphere (more accurately, the ionosphere). AM stations have to reduce the power of their transmissions at night because the ionosphere lifts with the colder temperatures and lees solar interference.
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