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.

625. Fact

If you don't cover your mouth while sneezing, 20,000 small droplets of saliva can forcefully project from your mouth up to 13-feet away.

626. Fact

You will never find seeds in clementines but you will find them in mandarines, the original fruit. The seed-free variety was named after its creator, the french priest clement, who developed it around 1900.

627. Fact

The thighbone and shinbone can be exposed to a vertical pressure up to 2,200 pounds, without breaking - the weight of an average car.

628. Fact

During an average lifetime of 70 years you will breath 600 million times, feel 125 million heart beats, and your eyes will blink 350 million times.

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