6634. Fact

Colored diamonds are caused by impurities such as nitrogen (yellow), boron (blue). With red diamonds being due to deformities in the structure of the stone, and green ones being the result of irradiation.

6635. Fact

People of Salt Lake City eat the most lime-flavoured gelatin Jell-O in the United States

6636. Fact

A ripe cranberry will bounce. Another name for a cranberry is bounceberry

6637. Fact

During the era of Louis XIV, women used lemons to redden their lips

6638. Fact

There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.

6639. Fact

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without the supervision of a licensed engineer.

6640. Fact

Che Guevara suffered from asthma.

6641. Fact

The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.

6642. Fact

Frederic Remington's sculpture The Bronco Buster has a mistake in it: the cowboy is wearing his spurs upside down.

6643. Fact

The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.

6644. Fact

Heinz Catsup leaving the bottle travels at 25 miles per year

6645. Fact

In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva

6646. Fact

48% of men report that a woman's smile is a big turn on.

6647. Fact

The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

6648. Fact

The country of Fiji is made up of 332 islands

6649. Fact

In Tonawanda, New York homeless people may not start a fire in the park unless they intend to cook food.

6650. Fact

Actor Charlie Chaplin made 81 movies over a career that spanned 50 years

6651. Fact

Buffalo wings, got their name because the spicy chicken wings originated in Buffalo, New York

6652. Fact

In one minute, the heart of a giraffe can pump 160 gallons of blood

6653. Animal Facts

The banded tenrec, a kind of hedgehog from Madagascar, sometimes eats so many worms, bugs and slugs that it makes itself sick.

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