5934. Fact

Alfred Hitchcock directed the first talking film ever made in England. It was called "Blackmail" and was made in 1931.

5935. Fact

The odds against a royal flush in poker are exactly 649,739 to 1.

5936. Fact

The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore. updated

5937. Fact

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

5938. Fact

More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

5939. Fact

A queen bee lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.

5940. Fact

Canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but the name was changed in Canada for marketing reasons

5941. Fact

In the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an island only if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep.

5942. Fact

An individual coral animal is called a polyp

5943. Fact

The BEAVER, is America's largest rodent and can remain underwater for 20 minutes!

5944. Animal Facts

The deep-sea gulper eel can eat fish larger than itself. It can open its mouth so wide that its jaw bends back on itself at an angle of more than 180 degrees.

5945. Fact

The length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters

5946. Fact

The first Tupperware item marketed was the seven-ounce bathroom cup in 1945

5947. Fact

Average number of days a German goes without washing his underwear: 7.

5948. Fact

The occupations of the three men in a tub were butcher, baker, and candlestick maker.

5949. Fact

Calvin Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes earned a Nobel Peace Prize.

5950. Fact

In 1800 on 50 cities on earth had a population of more than 100,000.

5951. Fact

The number 37 will wholly divide (no decimals) into 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999.

5952. Fact

People who have eaten beetles say that it tastes like apples

5953. Fact

Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet, which can complete one revolution in less than ten hours

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