6394. Fact

The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland. The sign stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across, weighs 450,000 pounds.

6395. Fact

In 1789, Morocco became the first country to recognize the United States.

6396. Fact

Wendel Clark holds the record for the longest span between NHL All-Star appearances, with 13 years (1986-1999)

6397. Fact

Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking

6398. Fact

Two out of five people end up marrying their first love

6399. Fact

When you flush a toilet, an invisible cloud of water shoots six feet in the air.

6400. Fact

At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.

6401. Fact

and the viewers were never told.

6402. Fact

During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings (The Red Vineyard)

6403. Fact

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

6404. Fact

The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.

6405. Fact

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you likely to chew food on your left side

6406. Fact

An eyelash lives about 5 months.

6407. Fact

If you were at 0 deg; latitude and 0 deg; longtitude, you would be standing in the Atlantic Ocean.

6408. Fact

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse's 'Le Bateau' upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error.

6409. Fact

Kermit the Frog was named after Kermit Scott, a childhood friend of creator Jim Henson, who became a professor of philosophy at Purdue University

6410. Fact

Humans shed and re-grow outer skin cells about every 27 days almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime.

6411. Fact

Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since

6412. Fact

Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.

6413. Fact

The book Little Red Riding Hood was banned in 1990 by two school districts in California. They did this because in the book there was a picture of a basket that had a bottle of wine in it

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