7282. Fact

The story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was written in 1939 for a store promotion by an advertising employee of the department store Montgomery Ward

7283. Fact

After the sun, the closest star to Earth is 25,000,000,000,000 miles away.

7284. Fact

The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000.

7285. Fact

In 1747, the first American mention of the Christmas tree occurred. However, it was a not a tree but instead a pyramid made out of wood and decorated with apples and evergreen boughs

7286. Fact

The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker

7287. Fact

Alcohol beverages have all 13 minerals necessary for human life

7288. Fact

The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.

7289. Fact

The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults

7290. Fact

The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat.

7291. Fact

The Apollo 17 crew were the last men on the moon

7292. Fact

If you go blind in one eye, you only lose about 20% of your vision, but all your sense of depth.

7293. Fact

The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

7294. Animal Facts

A flea can jump up to 220 times its own body length – a flea the size of an adult human could jump over a 25-storey building and more than a 0.4 kilometre (quarter of a mile) along the ground.

7295. Fact

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second.

7296. Fact

The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island.

7297. Fact

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

7298. Fact

When the divorce rate goes up in the United States, toy makers report that the sale of toys also rise

7299. Fact

During the Roman times, people used urine, called lotium in Latin, as a hair product

7300. Fact

In a year, the average Americans eats approximately 18 pounds of Turkey

7301. Fact

Phimosis is an inability to retract the foreskin fully, is harmless in infancy and pre-pubescence, occurring in about 8% of boys at age 10.

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