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.

7653. Fact

On average women can hear better than men.

7654. Fact

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

7655. Fact

Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.

7656. Fact

Milk is actually considered to be a food and not a beverage.

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