6148. Fact

The canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia, which is why canned herrings are better known as sardines.

6149. Fact

The first cover of Sports Illustrated, in 1954, showed National League umpire, Augie Donatelli, behind the plate with two major-league stars: catcher Wes Westrum, and batter Eddie Matthews.

6150. Fact

Astronauts brought back about 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth. Most of it has not been analyzed.

6151. Fact

Levi's 501 jeans got its number from its original stock number in the first Levi's store.

6152. Fact

Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer

6153. Fact

The Seven Deadly Sins are lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, avarice and gluttony.

6154. Fact

If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.

6155. Fact

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class

6156. Fact

The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m

6157. Fact

In 1994, 7-Eleven coined the term brain freeze. The word was developed to explain the feeling people get when drinking a Slurpee.

6158. Fact

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated

6159. Fact

Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colourless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance

6160. Fact

Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.'"

6161. Fact

There are more than 50 different types of pumpkins. Some of them have names such as Munchkin, Funny Face, and Spooktacular

6162. Animal Facts

Horses often chew at fly eggs and maggots on their legs and end up swallowing them, so have a stomach full of crawling maggots.

6163. Fact

Each year approximately half of billions dollars is spent on bubble gum by the kids in North America

6164. Fact

The name of the squiggly line ~ is called a tilde

6165. Fact

In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.

6166. Fact

Tripolini pasta was named for the Italian conquest of Tripoli in Libya

6167. Fact

Of all things, Andrew Jackson s tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States.

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