7590. Fact

Coffee trees are self-pollinating.

7591. Fact

Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.

7592. Fact

The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple.

7593. Fact

The mongoose was barred live entry into the U.S. in 1902.

7594. Fact

People who studies laughter are called a gelotologists.

7595. Fact

The world's first singing commercial aired on the radio on Christmas Eve, 1926 for Wheaties cereal. The four male singers, eventually known as the Wheaties Quartet, sang the jingle.

7596. Fact

On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

7597. Fact

May babies are on average 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months

7598. Fact

In a typical season, major league baseball will require 4,800 ash trees worth of Louisville sluggers.

7599. Fact

Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars

7600. Fact

Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first.

7601. Fact

A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder

7602. Fact

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) (I'm still not over the pig.)

7603. Animal Facts

Chameleons can change their skin colour to hide themselves (camouflage) – but they also change colour according to mood. Some go grey when depressed.

7604. Fact

Percentage of Africa that is wilderness--28%. Percentage of North America that is wilderness--38%.

7605. Fact

The right lung is slightly larger than the left.

7606. Fact

Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic

7607. Fact

The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route. The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.

7608. Fact

2.5 cans of Spam are consumed every second in the United States

7609. Fact

Cimeti?re du P?re Lachaise located in Paris is the most visited cemetery in the world. The cemetery opened in 1805 and has over one million people buried there, including rock star Jim Morrison

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The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."      .. More >>