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.

7676. Fact

One in ten people live on an island.

7677. Fact

At the equator the Earth spins at about 1,038 miles per hour

7678. Fact

The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high

7679. Fact

The first lighthouse was in Alexandria in 290 B.C

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