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7633. Fact
All pyrimids were bright white.

7634. Fact
Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%

7635. Fact
More than half the time spent in United States courts is cases that involve automobiles

7636. Fact
On April 6, 1925, the first in-flight movie was shown. It was a silent film and appeared on a Deutsche Luft Hansa flight

7637. Fact
Olympic pools are 50 meters long.

7638. Fact
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Lowenthal and Emma Wedgewood, respectively).

7639. Fact
When pure gold is beaten with a mallet and made into gold leaf, the average thickness runs between 1/200,000th to 1/250,000th of an inch.

7640. Fact
Blondes have more hair than dark haired people do.

7641. Fact
If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

7642. Fact
In the game of Monopoly, the most landed on properties are B&O Railroad, Illinois Avenue, and Go.

7643. Fact
Some kinds of frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living

7644. Fact
Thomas Watson, who was the chairman of IBM in 1943 predicted that their would probably only be a world market for five computers.

7645. Fact
Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body

7646. Fact
Jericho is the oldest walled city in the world at 9,000 yrs old.

7647. Fact
To find out almost the exact temperature... Listen to a cricket chirping and count the number of chirps in a minute. Add fifty, divide by four then add 40.

7648. Fact
A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.

7649. Fact
Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.

7650. Fact
The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy

7651. Fact
Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked

7652. Fact
The word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, from the movie Mary Poppins, was added to the Oxford dictionary in 1964.

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