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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.

5451. Fact
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable

5452. Fact
The word Karate means, empty hand.

5453. Fact
It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced.

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