590. Fact

In 1984, the belgian adventurer bruno leunen bought the longest ticket in the world for his journey around the world. It included 80 airline companies and 109 intermediate landings. When the ticket was printed out, it was 40 feet long!

591. Fact

The cigarette lighter was invented before matches were.

592. Fact

All polar bears are left handed.

593. Fact

Women blink almost twice as often as men do.

594. Fact

You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

595. Fact

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 years or older.

596. Fact

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

597. Fact

Your spinal marrow measures approximately 17 inches in length and only weighs about 1 ounce.

598. Fact

Genuine pearls melt when put into vinegar.

599. Fact

The tastebuds of butterflies are on their feet.

600. Fact

The latin word for seals is "pinnipedia", which means fin footed.

601. Fact

If a turkey looks up with its mouth open when it's raining, it could drown.

602. Fact

The world's longest unit of time is the hindus kalpa. It is equivalent to 4,000,000,032 years, the time it takes to flatten the himalaya mountain range by scraping away at it with a silk thread.

603. Fact

In every episode of seinfeld, you can see something with superman on it.

604. Fact

At more then 10,000-years-old, a coniferous tree, on the island of tasmania, is the oldest known living organism. It has lived through the cultural development of mankind and magestically covers an area as large as a city block.

605. Fact

In the film gold rush, a starving charlie chaplin eats his own shoes. These shoes were actually made from licorice.

606. Fact

One of china's goals is that every citizen should be able to eat 200 eggs yearly. It is estimated that in order to feed 1.3 billion people 200 eggs annually, that would require 1.3 billion hens who would eat more grain than australia produces yearly.

607. Fact

Certain tropical fish are able to climb trees - some up to a height of 32 feet. Many of them are so apt at breathing they would drown if forced to stay underwater for too long.

608. Fact

In the state of arizona, it is forbidden to lick a bufo alvarius. This toad secretes a potent substance that scares predators away. It also works as a hallucinogenic drug and some abusers lick it off the toads while others scrape it off the skin and smoke it.

609. Fact

Bottled water costs almost 1,000 times more than tap water.

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