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7686. Fact
Every year, an igloo hotel is built in Sweden that has the capacity to sleep 100 people

7687. Fact
Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

7688. Animal Facts
Horn flies attack bulls – as many as 10,000 can land on a bull's back and suck its blood until it dies.

7689. Fact
Police dogs were first used in 1816 in Scotland.

7690. Fact
El Capitan in Yosemite National Park is the largest visible granite rock in the world. It's twice the size of the Rock of Gibraltar.

7691. Fact
Pretzel snacks have been around for over 1300 years. A European monk invented the snack using used leftover bread dough

7692. Fact
Those hard, plastic points on the ends of shoelaces are called aglets.

7693. Fact
The causes of erectile dysfunction may be psychological or physical.

7694. Fact
In 1999, All Nippon Airlines, had one of its jets fully decorated with Pokemon characters from nose to tail on its exterior

7695. Fact
66% of home based businesses are owned by women

7696. Fact
The last member of the famous Bonaparte family, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, died in 1945, of injuries sustained from tripping over his dog's leash.

7697. Fact
The magnolia tree is named after Pierre Magnol, a French scientist.

7698. Fact
The murder rate in the United States is about four times greater than in Japan. In Japan, no private citizen can buy a handgun legally

7699. Fact
There is a restaurant in Stockholm that only offers all-garlic products. They even have a garlic cheesecake

7700. Fact
¥ Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered as a propagator of violence-he invented dynamite.

7701. Fact
In 1631, two London bible printers accidentally left the word not out of the seventh commandment, which then read, Thou shalt commit adultery. This legendary book is now known as the Wicked Bible.

7702. Animal Facts
Some leeches can suck enough blood in one meal to keep them alive for nine months.

7703. Fact
The Earths core is a ball of Iron-Nickle at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.

7704. Fact
From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain

7705. Fact
Males account for 60% of toy injuries that occur in the U.S

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