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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.

6168. Fact
75% of men look for wife potential in a girlfriend.

6169. Animal Facts
The wood frog that lives in the Arctic Circle can stay deep-frozen for weeks and survive.

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