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).

7732. Fact

Babies who wear disposable diapers are five times more likely to develop diaper rash than those that wear cotton diapers

7733. Fact

Pineapples are classified as berries.

7734. Fact

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the current temperature in celcius degrees.

7735. Fact

It is against the law in Oregon to fish with canned corn.

7736. Fact

The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.

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