4942. Fact

Chocolate accounts for less than two percent of the fat in the American diet

4943. Fact

The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel

4944. Fact

Canada beat Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 world hockey championships. new

4945. Fact

The term throw one's hat in the ring comes from boxing, where throwing a hat into the ring once signified a challenge. Today it nearly always signifies political candidacy.

4946. Fact

The highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere is Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. It rises 22,834 feet above sea level

4947. Fact

Every year more people are killed by donkeys than in aircraft crashes.

4948. Fact

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

4949. Fact

Adelphogamy is a marriage custom in which brothers share one or several wives.

4950. Fact

The oldest cricket match was played between the USA and Canada in 1844.

4951. Fact

In Seattle, Washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length.

4952. Fact

Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2,but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

4953. Fact

3% of all mammals are monogamous.

4954. Fact

The expletive, Holy Toledo, refers to Toledo, Spain, which became an outstanding Christian cultural center in 1085.

4955. Fact

The forth railway bridge is a meter longer in summer than in winter due to thermal expansion.

4956. Fact

The largest stained-glass window in the world is at Kennedy International Airport in New York City. It can be found in the American Airlines terminal building and measures 300 feet long by 23 feet high.

4957. Fact

The only MLB team to have both its city's name and its team name in a foreign language is the San Diego Padres.

4958. Fact

Half of the 40 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS are female.

4959. Fact

There is about 200 times more gold in the oceans than has been mined throughout history.

4960. Fact

In 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy to be advertised on television in the U.S.

4961. Fact

The lemur of Madagascar is one of very few of the human species' ancestors that has survived unchanged down the long corridors of evolution. Having developed after the first primates, it is classified as a prosimian, meaning before monkey, and is one of the ancestors common to both monkeys and men.

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