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5233. Fact

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

5234. Fact

The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda.

5235. Fact

Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

5236. Fact

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States.

5237. Fact

Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.

5238. Fact

Barbers are forbidden by law from shaving a man's chest in Omaha, Nebraska.

5239. Fact

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories

5240. Fact

An estimated 690 million people live in Africa

5241. Fact

Men with a certain rare medical condition can breastfeed babies

5242. Fact

Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.

5243. Fact

Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed (paw).

5244. Fact

Caffeine: there are 100 to 150 milligrams of caffeine in an eight-ounce cup of brewed coffee, 10 milligrams in a six-ounce cup of cocoa, 5 to 10 milligrams in one ounce of bittersweet chocolate, and 5 milligrams in one ounce of milk chocolate.

5245. Fact

The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive, so much so that they will set off an alarm at a nuclear reactor.

5246. Fact

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

5247. Animal Facts

Land leeches in Asia can drop from trees onto people and suck out so much blood the person dies.

5248. Fact

There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing

5249. Fact

68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air.

5250. Fact

Totally Hair Barbie is the best selling Barbie of all time. It sold over ten million units

5251. Fact

Soldier Field is the oldest field in the NFL

5252. Fact

In 1876, the first microphone was invented by Emile Berliner.