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Worn or outdated US Flags are destroyed, preferably by burning.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

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.

7667. Fact

The movie Chicken Run made in 2,000 had the most plasticine used in an animated movie. They used 2,380 kg of plasticine for the movie

7668. Animal Facts

Cows partly digest the grass they eat, then vomit it back up into their mouths and chew and swallow it all over again.That's what they're doing when you see them chewing in a field when they're not munching on a fresh mouthful of grass.

7669. Fact

Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains.

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