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.

4612. Fact

The tonsillectomy is the most common surgical procedure.

4613. Fact

A group of kangaroos is called a mob

4614. Fact

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system.

4615. Fact

The Chinese politician Mao Zedong refused to ever brush his teeth and instead just washed his mouth with tea

4616. Fact

Tomatina is the legendary Spanish tomato-throwing festival held in Bunol, Spain

4617. Fact

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is 1,250 miles long.

4618. Fact

There are only four words in the English language that end in -dous: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

4619. Fact

Armadillos along with humans are the other creatures that can contract leprosy.

4620. Fact

The accent that Mike Myers used for the character Shrek came from the accent that his mother would use when she was telling him bedtime stories when he was a child

4621. Fact

Turtles can breathe through their butts

4622. Fact

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

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