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

6414. Fact

Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman, he changed it in honor of Dylan Thomas.

6415. Fact

Jellyfish can sense a storm 10 to 15 hrs. before it actually occurs and leave the shore and go into the deep sea.

6416. Fact

The entire worlds output of urine would take about 45 minutes to go over the Niagra falls.

6417. Fact

Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.

6418. Fact

Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.

6419. Fact

Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

6420. Fact

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is not considered an insult! Despite the expensive food, tipping is welcome as in any other country.

6421. Fact

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons).

6422. Fact

During winter in Moscow the skating rinks cover more than 250,000 square meters of land.

6423. Animal Facts

Carrying garlic might repel mosquitoes rather than vampires.

6424. Fact

It is unlawful for small boys to throw stones, at any time, at any place in the District of Columbia.

6425. Fact

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published March 20, 1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.

6426. Fact

The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.

Invention
Invention : zipper
Year : 1893
Inventor : whitcomb l. judson
Country : us      .. More >>