7567. Fact

Mummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went

7568. Fact

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

7569. Fact

Your skin weighs about 3.2kg.

7570. Fact

Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace.

7571. Fact

In Hans Holbein's painting, The Ambassadors, the artist added a small skull as a way of signing his name. Holbein is another word for hollow bone or a skull.

7572. Fact

Reports from owners of cats and dogs indicate that 21% of dogs and 7% of cats snore

7573. Fact

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.(Hardly seems worth it.)

7574. Fact

On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.

7575. Fact

There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.

7576. Fact

What word can you take the first letter of, put it as the last letter, and make it the past tence of the original word? Answer: Eat (ate)

7577. Fact

Children grow faster in the springtime.

7578. Fact

Israel is the only country in the world, which has compulsory military service for women.

7579. Fact

The Taj Mahal in India is perfectly symetrical, except for one thing. The two tombs inside are not equal in size. This is because the male tomb has to be larger than the female tomb.

7580. Fact

Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide.

7581. Fact

Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 metres per second

7582. Fact

Mary Hart, the co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, has each of her legs insured for one million dollars

7583. Fact

There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection

7584. Fact

Venus rotates so slowly that in a typical day lasts approximately 244 Earth days (5,856 hours).

7585. Fact

A person who is a specialist in wine making is called an oenologist

7586. Fact

In Shakespeare, Rosalind, the heroine of "As You Like It", has more lines than any of Shakespeare's female characters. Cleopatra comes in second with 670 lines and third place belongs to Imogen (Cymbeline), with 591 lines.

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