4784. Fact

Approximately 20% of Americans have a passport.

4785. Fact

The national sport of Japan is sumo wrestling

4786. Fact

New York City's nickname the Big Apple is named after an early swing-dance that originated in a South Carolina club (which used to be a church) called The Big Apple.

4787. Fact

Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

4788. Fact

An owl cannot move it's eyeballs in its eye sockets.

4789. Fact

During World War II, the British Intelligence used the Colossus Machines (precursor to computers) at Bletchley Park to help decode the enigma code of the Nazis.

4790. Fact

George Washington's teeth were actually: carved from animal tusks, some of them were also somebody else's teeth, and some of them were from animals like deer and cales.

4791. Fact

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

4792. Fact

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

4793. Fact

The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores

4794. Fact

Quality standards for pasta were set in the 13th century by the Pope

4795. Fact

An ear of corn consists of 80% water

4796. Fact

A baby kangaroo is called a joey

4797. Fact

The word vaccine comes from the Latin word vacca, which means cow. This name was chosen beacause the first vaccination was derived from cowpox which was given to a boy

4798. Fact

Squids move through the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphon

4799. Fact

No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl

4800. Fact

Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the USA

4801. Fact

A body decomposes four times as fast in water than on land.

4802. Fact

The red sea is not red.

4803. Fact

About 30 million men in the United States suffer from erectile dysfunction.

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