6728. Fact

25% of a human's bones are in its feet.

6729. Fact

Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers.

6730. Fact

The reason why the Canadian Arctic is called the Land of the Midnight Sun is because during the summer many communities have light 24 hours of the day. Many people have to cover their windows with tin foil to keep the light out when they sleep

6731. Fact

The width of a tornado can range from less than ten yards to more than a mile.

6732. Fact

The beluga whale, otherwise known as the white whale, is nicknamed the sea canary because of the birdlike chirping sounds it makes.

6733. Fact

The letter I is used exactly 109 times in Act IV of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

6734. Fact

The World Rubik Cube championship was held in Budapest on June 5, 1982. Nineteen National Champions took part. Minh Thai, the US Champion, won by solving the Cube in of 22.95 seconds. The world record, in competitive conditions, grew progressively lower and now stands at 16.5 seconds.

6735. Fact

The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross

6736. Fact

In just the first 56 days of life, the larva of the polyphemus moth eats about 86,000 times its birthweight

6737. Fact

¥The term Cop comes from Constable on Patrol, which is a term used in England.

6738. Fact

Raindrops aren't actually tear-drop shaped. They are rounded at the top and pointed on the bottom.

6739. Animal Facts

If a barracuda fish falls ill, it eats things that will make its flesh poisonous. That way, anything that eats it after it dies will be poisoned.

6740. Fact

Robert Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's oldest son) was in Washington DC during his father's assassination as well as during President Garfield's assassination, and he was in Buffalo NY when President McKinley was assassinated.

6741. Fact

At -40 degrees fahrenheit, a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour breathing.

6742. Fact

There are 293 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa

6743. Fact

Average number of eggs laid by the female American Oyster per year: 500 million. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches maturity.

6744. Fact

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

6745. Fact

In ancient Greece, throwing an apple to a girl was a way to propose for marriage.. If the girl caught it, that would mean she accepts

6746. Fact

An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin

6747. Fact

The average human breathes about 700,000 cubic inches of air every day.

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