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.

5442. Fact

Florida's beaches lose 20 million cubic yards of sand annually.

5443. Fact

The first TV commercial advertisement was by the Bulova Watch company on July 1, 1941. The watch company paid $9.00 for an announcement that was 10 seconds long

5444. Fact

The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000.

5445. Fact

Chicago has hosted the most presidential conventions with 25. Fourteen have been Republican and 11 Democratic.

5446. Fact

A hedgehog's skin is so tough that when they get run over, its entrails come out of its mouth and its butt.

5447. Fact

There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands

5448. Fact

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

5449. Fact

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.

5450. Fact

A rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite itself.

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