6440. Fact

One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons

6441. Fact

Annually, approximately 46 millions Cokes, five million pounds of french fries, and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort

6442. Fact

Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.

6443. Fact

The United States Treasury Department maintains a fund known as The Conscience Fund, which accepts money sent in anonymously by taxpayers who think they've cheated the government. The money is used for miscellaneous expenses.

6444. Fact

Most caucasian babies are born with dark blue eyes, although it normally changes color after child birth.

6445. Fact

In Clawson, Mich., there is a law that makes it LEGAL for a farmer to sleep with his pigs, cows, horses, goats, and chickens.

6446. Fact

The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.

6447. Animal Facts

A spider that isn't hungry will wrap up extra bugs in its web to keep for later.

6448. Fact

Author Robert May considered the names of Reginald and Rollo before he settled on Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.

6449. Fact

In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins

6450. Fact

There is cyanide in apple pips

6451. Fact

The Civil War in the United States elevated the popularity of coffee to new heights. Soldiers went to war with coffee beans as a primary ration.

6452. Fact

False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths

6453. Fact

Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.

6454. Fact

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.

6455. Fact

850 peanuts are needed to make an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter

6456. Animal Facts

Every year, 4.5 million litres (1 million gallons) of dog urine goes into the parks of London, England.

6457. Fact

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down hence the expression to get fired.

6458. Fact

A single chocolate chip gives enough energy to a human being to walk 150 feet

6459. Fact

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point inColorado.

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