5422. Fact

70% of the poor people in the world are female

5423. Animal Facts

Electric eels can deliver a shock of 500 volts to stun their dinner into submission.

5424. Fact

Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.

5425. Fact

The wheelbarrow was invented by the Chinese.

5426. Fact

Lake Malawi has the largest number of fish species in the world

5427. Fact

In ancient Egypt, the only person who was allowed to wear cotton was the High Priest

5428. Fact

Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical-intensive crop in the world

5429. Fact

Hockey pucks were originally made from frozen cow dung

5430. Fact

Behram, an Indian thug, holds the record for most murders by a single individual. He strangled 931 people between 1790-1840 with a piece of yellow and white cloth, called a ruhmal. The most murders by a woman are 612, by Countess Erzsebet Bathory of Hungary

5431. Fact

The largest movie theater in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, opened in December, 1932. It originally had 5,945 seats.

5432. Fact

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

5433. Fact

In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions

5434. Fact

Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.

5435. Fact

The tallest tree recorded is located in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. It is a coast redwood and has been measured at 117 metres high

5436. Fact

Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first flushable toilet

5437. Fact

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h

5438. Fact

In 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr. Barney Clark, who lived 112 days with the device.

5439. Fact

You forget 80% of what you learn each day.

5440. Fact

Only eight men were killed in the battle of lexington.

5441. Fact

Of the 206 bones in the human body, 52 are in the feet.

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