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6191. Fact
The first losing candidate in a US presidential election was Thomas Jefferson. He lost to John Adams. George Washington had been unopposed.

6192. Fact
Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before

6193. Fact
Every year 8,000 people injure themselves while using a tooth pick.

6194. Fact
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.

6195. Fact
The Pentagon cost $49,600,000 to build in 1941

6196. Fact
The football team Green Bay Packers comes from a meat packing company called Acme Packing

6197. Animal Facts
The southern giant petrel, a bird which lives near the South Pole, spits globs of oil and regurgitated food at its enemies.

6198. Animal Facts
A baby naked mole rat has transparent skin – you can see its insides right through its skin!

6199. Fact
Tallahassee, FL was the only Southern capital east of the Mississippi not captured during the U.S. Civil War.

6200. Fact
One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs 11 pounds

6201. Fact
In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood

6202. Fact
The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.

6203. Fact
Eating dandelions can make you urinate more

6204. Fact
There is air in space, but very little of it. In fact, it is equivalent to a marble in a box 5 miles wide. Most of the gas is captured by the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies.

6205. Fact
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become one year older on New Year's Day.

6206. Fact
Kirkland, Illinois, law forbids bees to fly over the village or through any of its streets.

6207. Fact
The science-fiction series Lost in Space (set in the year 1997) premiered on CBS in 1965.

6208. Fact
Bats sleep during the day and feed at night. The place that bats sleep in is called the roost.

6209. Fact
The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after.

6210. Animal Facts
Cockroaches taste through their feet.

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