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5880. Fact
On December 17 1991, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148-80, the largest margin of victory in an NBA game

5881. Fact
In the USA, 32% of employees eat lunch and work at the same time

5882. Fact
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids.

5883. Fact
The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight

5884. Fact
Scotland has more redheads than any other part of the world.

5885. Fact
The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made. It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted 9 years.

5887. Fact
Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.

5888. Fact
Halfway, Oregon temporarily changed its name to half.com as a publicity stunt for the web site of the same name.

5889. Fact
The largest sculpture ever made are the faces of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore.

5890. Fact
Those San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monuments.

5891. Animal Facts
Mosquitoes in the Arctic hatch when the snows thaw, sometimes making such large swarms they blot out the sun.

5892. Animal Facts
A pregnant scorpion will sometimes reabsorb its babies instead of giving birth to them.

5893. Fact
The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold

5894. Fact
An Octopus has 3 hearts.

5895. Animal Facts
A cockroach can survive being frozen in a block of ice for two days.

5896. Fact
In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball

5897. Fact
New Jersey has a spoon museum with over 5,400 spoons from almost all the states.

5898. Fact
The first place winners at the first modern Olympics were awarded an olive branch and a silver medal. The runners-up received laurel sprigs and copper medals.

5899. Fact
The first woman to run for President was Victoria Woodhull, on the Equal Rights Party ballot in 1872.

5900. Fact
The high level of unemployment in Canada makes it one of the least popular destinations for illegal immigrants.

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