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!

7719. Fact

The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose.

7720. Fact

Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds

7721. Fact

There is a Hamburger hall of fame in Seymour, Wisconsin

7722. Fact

An estimated $1 million is lost at race tracks each year by people who lose or carelessly throw away winning tickets.

7723. Animal Facts

Locusts, like giant grasshoppers or crickets, travel in swarms of up to 80 million and each eats its own weight in plants every day.

7724. Fact

The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.

7725. Fact

It is common in Israel and Egypt to eat watermelon with feta cheese

7726. Fact

The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.

7727. Fact

If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)

7728. Fact

Before Columbus, Europe had never tasted corn, potatoes, tomatoes, red peppers, sweet potatoes, tapioca, chocolate, pumpkins, squash, coconuts, pineapples, strawberries, and much more. Why? All these food items are native to America.

7729. Fact

The largest bill U.S. bill made is for $100,000

7730. Fact

Seniors who drink a cup of coffee before a memory test score higher than those who drink a cup of decaffeinated coffee

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