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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

6815. Fact
The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year

6816. Fact
The average adult has approximately six pounds of skin

6817. Fact
An average person laughs about 15 times a day

6818. Fact
It is possible for any American citizen to give whatever name he or she chooses to any unnamed mountain or hill in the United States.

6819. Fact
Over 10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.

6820. Fact
The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes

6821. Fact
Cows and horses sleep standing up.

6822. Fact
Researchers have shot footage of Orcas (killer whales) attacking and killing great white sharks

6823. Fact
Nearly 10% of American households dress their pets in Halloween costumes.

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