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

7706. Fact

About 26 per cent of all indoor water used by households in Sydney, Australia are for laundry

7707. Fact

Adolf Hitler loved chocolate cake

7708. Fact

The first person to die in the electric chair was William Kemmler, an ax murderer from New York on August 6, 1890

7709. Fact

The Manta Ray is the largest of all fish.

7710. Fact

An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.

7711. Fact

Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is the deepest lake in the world

7712. Fact

The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990's.

7713. Fact

The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries

7714. Fact

The human head weighs 7 pounds.

7715. Fact

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

7716. Fact

The average ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year

7717. Fact

Hungarian brothers George and Lszlo Biro invented the ball point pen in 1938.

7718. Animal Facts

Scorpions can withstand extremes of temperature and even radiation. A scorpion could be frozen in a block of ice for three weeks and walk away unharmed, and survive 200 times the dose of radiation that would kill a person!

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