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Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.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

7663. Fact

Shark cartilage has been used to make artificial skin for human burn victims

7664. Fact

The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.

Invention
Invention : ball bearing
Year : 1794
Inventor : philip vaughan
Country : england.      .. More >>