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.

610. Fact

According to mathematical experts, a deck of cards must be shuffled at least seven times to avoid having them end up as they were from the start of the shuffle.

611. Fact

What do americans get stuck in their throats more than any other object? Tooth picks.

612. Fact

In quentin tarantino's film pulp fiction, all the watches show twenty minutes past four o'clock. It is suggested that this is a reference to the inventor of lsd, albert hoffman, who took his first lsd trip on april 19, 1943 at 4:20 pm.

613. Fact

On average, a person has about 100,000 hairs growing on top of their head and they lose between 50 to 100 of them everyday. A blond sprouts about 140,000, a redhead has around 90,000 and a brown haired individual's head bares something in between.

614. Fact

There is an international society whose sole purpose is to inform the world that all scientific facts are false. Among other things, its members maintain that the earth is flat and that the distance between the earth and sun is 3,221 miles - not 92 million miles.

615. Fact

Britain's queen elizabeth the first was extremely generous with her makeup. When she passed away, she was made up with a layer of lipstick 1/3 of an inch in thickness.

616. Fact

Whenever you see a dog pawing at the ground after finishing its business, do you think it's neatly covering up its poo? Well, it's not. They are leaving traces of their unique scent behind, which is released from odour glands on the bottom of their paws.

617. Fact

When flying domestically within the usa, statistically you must fly everyday for 19,000 years before having an accident.

618. Fact

It's more straining for the vocal chords to whisper than to speak in a normal voice.

619. Fact

The trans-siberian railway is a 5,778-mile long route through russia, from moscow to vladivostok. Earlier travellers had to take this journey by boat across lake baikal. A one-way trip on the trans-siberian railway takes 7 long days.

620. Fact

In 1964, the first laser was reproduced on film in goldfinger.

621. Fact

In 1969, apollo 1 took the first man to the moon. Its steering system was less advanced than computers and calculators are today.

622. Fact

David prowse did not know that fellow actor james earl jones was giving his voice to prowse's character, darth vader, in the movie star wars. He first noticed while watching the premiere.

623. Fact

Sweden's globen arena, built in stockholm between 1986 and 1988, is the largest spherical building in the world.

624. Fact

A recently discovered species of ants has been named after harrison ford. The species is called peidole harrisonfordi.

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