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Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.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

7657. Fact
Alexander the Great was an epileptic

7658. Fact
Cost of raising a medium size dog to the age of 11: $6,400.

7659. Fact
The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an octothorpe

7660. Fact
The average housefly lives for only two weeks.

7661. Fact
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades--King David, Clubs--Alexander the Great, Hearts--Charlemagne and Diamonds--Julius Caesar.

7662. Fact
The plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.

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