6795. Animal Facts

Newly discovered monster of the deep, Dakosaurus, was 4 metres (almost 14 feet) long, and had a head like a meat-eating dinosaur but the flippers and tail of a fish. Luckily, it died out 135 million years ago!

6796. Fact

In Boston, Massachusetts it is illegal to take a bath unless instructed to do so by a physician.

6797. Fact

Sperm banks keep their donor semen at approximately -321 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, it could be kept indefinitely.

6798. Fact

California's Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was 11-years-old.

6799. Fact

Per-capita, Israel eats the most turkey based products in the world.

6800. Fact

In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale

6801. Fact

Elephants, horses, and camels all descended from animals that originally came from North America, despite their present homes in Eurasia.

6802. Fact

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

6803. Fact

Lacrosse was invented by American Indians.

6804. Fact

The 1st US federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. was in 1986.

6805. Fact

Obsessive nose picking is referred to as rhinotillexomania

6806. Fact

It's a good thing lemmings are promiscuous, they produce 4 times as many females as males.

6807. Fact

The elephant is the national animal of Thailand

6808. Fact

Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte both suffered from epilepsy.

6809. Fact

The Great White Shark can grow to be more than twenty feet long and can weigh approximately 4,000 pounds

6810. Fact

After six months at the off-Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival Theater, Hair opened at the Biltmore Theater in New York, in 1968. It was the first rock-musical to play on the Great White Way.

6811. Fact

On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime

6812. Fact

Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%

6813. Fact

Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system.

6814. Fact

Ian Fleming named his character James Bond after real-life ornithologist and author

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