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.

7025. Fact

Around 22% of Americans are teenagers.

7026. Fact

The average life span of a mosquito is two weeks.

7027. Fact

Human tapeworms can grow up to 22.9 meters.

7028. Fact

Nabisco's Oreo's are the world's best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.

7029. Fact

The colours yellow, red, and orange are used in fast food restaraunts because those are the colours that stimulate hunger

7030. Fact

Gottfried Daimler of Stuttgart, Germany, is generally regarded as the father of the automobile because he was the first to come up with a workable gasoline engine.

7031. Fact

St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest city in the US.

7032. Fact

Theodore Roosevelt was the only U.S. president to deliver an inaugural address without using the word I. Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower tied for second place, using I only once in their inaugural addresses.

7033. Animal Facts

A flea can jump 30,000 times without stopping.

7034. Fact

Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight

7035. Fact

If you traveled the speed of light, it would only take you 0.0000294 seconds to climb Mt. Everest.

7036. Fact

You can usually tell how good the picture of a TV will be by how black the screen is when the TV is off. The blacker, the better.

7037. Fact

Robert William Thomson, a Scottish engineer, invented the first rubber tire in 1845.

7038. Fact

The first US consumer product sold in the Soviet Union was Pepsi-Cola.

7039. Fact

No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses

7040. Fact

In Canada, the most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday

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Discoverer/Inventor : rene laennec (france)
Year : 1819      .. More >>