5789. Fact

US Presidents who never had children: George Washington, known as the Father of the Country, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, and Warren Harding.

5790. Fact

The main library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

5791. Fact

Teflon was accidently discovered by scientist Dr. Roy Plunkett while he was conducting a coolant gas experiment in 1938

5792. Fact

All elephants walk on tip-toe because the back portion of their foot is made of no bone just fat.

5793. Fact

Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

5794. Fact

Brazil got its name from the nut, not the other way round.

5795. Fact

One ounce of chocolate has about 20 mg of caffeine in it

5796. Animal Facts

A kind of yellow-bellied toad can produce a nasty foam that smells of garlic to deter attackers.

5797. Fact

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

5798. Fact

The average number of pillowcases washed a day at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas is 15,000

5799. Fact

The long fibres that are found in bananas are excellent in making paper. The long fibres that are found in the banana plant can make the banana fibre paper approximately 3000 times stronger than regular paper

5800. Fact

Zebras are not black with white stripes, but are actually white with black stripes.

5801. Fact

The Canadian holiday Boxing Day got its name from the custom of giving. Servants were given boxes which had money hidden inside them from their employers. The servants would have to break the box into pieces to get the money

5802. Fact

None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)"

5803. Fact

African heart-nosed bats can have such a keen sense of sound that they can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from six feet away

5804. Fact

A cow releases about 125 gallons of gas per day

5805. Fact

Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers

5806. Fact

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

5807. Fact

Skin is thickest, 1/5 inch, on the upper back. It is thinnest on the eyelids, which are only 1/50th inch thick

5808. Fact

Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India

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