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

4593. Fact

Rodents teeth never stop growing.

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.

4604. Fact

Every person has a unique eye and tongue print.

4605. Fact

A glockenspiel is a musical instrument that is like a xylophone. It has a series of metal bars and is played with two hammers

4606. Animal Facts

A ribbon worm can eat 95 percent of its own body and still survive.

4607. Fact

A hamlet is a village without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

4609. Fact

Victor Mills, an inventor with Proctor & Gamble, invented the disposable diaper in 1961 because he didn't want to deal with his daughter's soiled diapers. You know them as Pampers.

4610. Fact

Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

4611. Fact

The US has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.

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