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.

7006. Fact

The company Sony was originally called Totsuken. They felt the name Sony would be easier to pronounce. The name was invented by a cross between the name sonus and sonny. The name sound and sonic are derived. Sonny was used to represent a young man or boy, which would show a energetic young company

7007. Fact

A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body

7008. Fact

The list of ingredients that make up lipstick include fish scales

7009. Fact

There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.

7010. Animal Facts

A praying mantis is an insect rather like a cricket, but up to 12 centimetres (5 inches) long. It can kill and eat small lizards and birds, holding them impaled on a special spike it has developed for the purpose. A really hungry mantis will eat its own babies.

7011. Fact

Walt Disney had originally suggested using the name Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey Mouse

7012. Fact

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, has been translated into more languages than any book outside of the Bible.

7013. Fact

On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving

7014. Fact

The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons

7015. Fact

Marilyn Monroe used to cut down the heel on one of her shoes to achieve her butt-wiggling walk in films.

7016. Fact

Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps. Hence, the postage stamps of Britain are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.

7017. Fact

The tallest woman in the world is American Sandy Allen who is 7 feet 7 inches

7018. Fact

It takes 492 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.

7019. Fact

The city of Argentia which is located on Newfoundland's southwest coast, is Canada's most fog-bound community. It has 206 days of fog each year.

7020. Fact

When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour. This is the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man-made object.

7021. Fact

The Federal Reserve printed up an extra $50 billion in small bills just in case people started hoarding money prior to the year 2000. Since nowhere near that much cash was needed, and there was a long-term storage problem, most of that money was recycled.

7022. Fact

Only 4 mayors of U.S. cities went on to become president: Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Johnson.

7023. Fact

The Pentagon has 284 restrooms

7024. Animal Facts

Cockroaches can make themselves super-slim, and can flatten their bodies to a size just a little thicker than a piece of paper to crawl into cracks.

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