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6986. Fact
Between 1991 and 1996, India produced the most movies per year on average. The 851 movies per year beat the yearly average of the United States (569) by 282 for the same time frame.

6987. Fact
Heavyweight tire manufacturer Goodyear is in no way affiliated with Charles Goodyear, the inventor of vulcanized rubber. They merely admired his inventiveness and his process that was so easy to duplicate that competitors simply stole it.

6988. Fact
The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

6989. Fact
9 out of 10 people believe Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.This isn't true; Joseph Swan did.

6990. Fact
Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.

6991. Fact
The average number of guests that attend a wedding in the U.S. is 189

6992. Fact
It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.

6993. Fact
When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

6994. Fact
Another name for your pinky finger is Wanus

6995. Fact
You blink about 25,000 times a day.

6996. Fact
Stanford University engineers Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started their company in a Palo Alto garage with $1,538. Their first product was an audio oscillator bought by Walt Disney studios for use in the movie Fantasia.

6997. Fact
The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.

6998. Fact
The world's largest palace is the Imperial palace in the heart of Peking,

6999. Animal Facts
When an opossum is threatened, it plays dead – it lies still, its tongue hanging out, excretes faeces on itself and oozes green slime that smells of rotting flesh.

7000. Fact
Manta Rays have no external organs for urination, therefore they release the urine from their pores.

7001. Fact
There are no geese in the southern hemisphere.

7002. Fact
Ancient Egyptian women used to wear perfume cones made of wax that would melt in the heat letting out a nice fragrance

7003. Fact
It's a common myth that chocolate aggravates acne. Experiments conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Naval Academy found that consumption of chocolate, even frequent daily dietary intake, had no effect on the incidence of acne. Professional dermatologists today do not link acne with diet.

7004. Fact
In 1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's largest producer of coffee.

7005. Fact
Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.

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There are four main Blood types: A, B, AB and O and each Blood type is either Rh positive or negative. Blood types in the US Type O positive 38.4%, O negative 7.7%, A positive 32.3%, A negative 6.5%, B positive 9.4%, B negative 1.7%, AB positive 3.2%, AB negative 0.7%      .. More >>
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