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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Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.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.
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.
7665. Animal Facts
The female hissing cockroach surrounds her eggs with a frothy substance that hardens; she then carries them inside her body for two weeks until they hatch.
7666. Fact
The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
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The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies
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