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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

7041. Fact
The windiest place in the world is Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA. The highest wind was on April 12, 1934 when it reached 231 mph.

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Perfume contains ethyl alcohol and 25% fragrant oils. Cologne is cheaper to produce and to purchase because the oil content in cologne is only 3%. Cologne was named for the German city in which it was first produced. The original formula combined alcohol, lemon spirits, orange bitters and mint oil.      .. More >>
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