647. Fact

Lego was invented in 1949. The name comes from the danish words "leg", meaning play and "godt" meaning good.

648. Fact

The state of new jersey, usa provides two-thirds of the world's total production of eggplant.

649. Fact

The philosopher, ren descartes, who considered himself to be the inventor of the first philosophical principle - cogito ergo sum (i think, therefore, i am), - died while visiting queen kristina in 1649. The castle was very cold and descartes suffered from pneumonia, which killed him.

650. Fact

There are more chickens than humans on our planet.

651. Fact

The spanish fly is the world's most famous bug. Some believe it has aphrodisiac properties. One thing is for certain: dried and powdered, spanish flies make a potent poison and many have died from it. The last known case was in the 1960's.

652. Fact

Al capone's business card said that he was a used furniture salesman.

653. Fact

A goldfish has a memory that lasts only three seconds.

654. Fact

More shoplifters are caught on a wednesday than on any other day of the week.

655. Fact

We are born without kneecaps. They develop by the age of six.

656. Fact

William shakespeare "invented" more than 1,700 words.

657. Fact

The world famous opera house in sydney, australia was designed by the danish architect jrn utzon. It's covered with over one million white ceramic tiles, manufactured by the swedish company hgans.

658. Fact

Do you want to buy a camel? The largest exporter of camels in the western world is norway.

659. Fact

Your eyes remain the same in size from the day you are born to the day you die. Your nose and ears, however, never stop growing.

660. Fact

The tame cat came to scandinavia about 1,500 years ago. Before that one often had - a tame snake!

661. Fact

Every year, more people get killed by donkeys than by plane crashes.

662. Fact

You need 150,000 saffron crocuses to get two pounds of saffron.

663. Fact

The sperm whale has the largest brain of all animals in the world. It weighs 20 pounds.

664. Fact

Frogs never drink water. They get all the fluid they need by living in a wet and moist environment.

665. Fact

The largest concentration of animals ever observed was a huge swarm of grasshoppers in 1879. The swarm was the size of germany and contained more than 12,500 billion insects that together weighed about 55,000 billion pounds.

666. Fact

In relation to their size, bugs that belong to the species scarabeidae are the strongest animals in the world. When tests were done on the quite rare oryctes nasicornis, also known as "rhinoceros beetle", it was found that it could carry 850 times its own weight on its back.

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