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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

7731. Fact
Conservationalists and Conversationalists (18 letters) are the longest non-scientific transposals (word formed from another by changing its letters).

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