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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.
7670. Fact
Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.
7671. Fact
There are 350,000 Italians living in Toronto, Canada, a population about the same as that of Venice, Italy.
7672. Fact
Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
7673. Fact
White out was invented by the mother of Mike Nesmith (Formerly of the Monkees).
7674. Fact
Iguanas can recognize their human handlers and greet them differently, compared with strangers
7675. Fact
About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.
7677. Fact
At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour
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The only flying saucer launch pad in the world is located in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada
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